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Date:	Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:41:41 -0600
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Greetings everyone, with Maxtor's demise I've moved over to Seagate.  Still
at the Qt work and the DOS work both.

I've been working on making the (relatively few) changes necessary to get
Qt 4.x's QMake able to be built under the DJGPP port of GCC to DOS.  I've
got an initial pass that provides a functioning QMake binary that will run
under plain DOS (assuming that DOSLFN is installed - I'm not going to try
to make this work in a short filename environment!)  I've compared its
output on a fairly complex project, and everything matches.

I would like to see, as time goes on, working on extending this to
additional Qt functionality.  In an ideal universe, at minimum QtCore could
be ported; it would be even cooler if GUI code could be made to work as
well but I am aware of how much work that would be looking at!

Is there someone at Trolltech I could discuss this effort with?  Despite
the open-source licensing, I've not seen much discussion about the ability
to contribute source back into Qt.

For those who are interested, you can find the information and code
required to build QMake at http://www.valleyhold.org/~gordons/Qt.  This is,
needless to say, a first go at it, so the directions are a bit more complex
than they should be.  (Please note once again that this will ONLY build
QMake...)

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