X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <95455e980802202220h7e7256f7p2f7e948978b27a0c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:20:02 +1100 From: hce To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Building C++ program with QT under cygwin In-Reply-To: <47BD0EF4.5CE7D62B@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <95455e980802201631t62ff6b6pd8074e93d40fa7a7@mail.gmail.com> <47BCCC17.2090304@pacific.net.sg> <95455e980802201733u19f0b02at14ac05dda3ff0256@mail.gmail.com> <47BCDAC7.6080101@cygwin.com> <95455e980802201824r66d12064pcc812e3a81206e4d@mail.gmail.com> <47BCF106.3080204@cygwin.com> <95455e980802202016r212f1847vf3b5fe8251d57523@mail.gmail.com> <47BD0EF4.5CE7D62B@dessent.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Brian Dessent wrote: > hce wrote: > > > I actually tried QT 4.3 linux packaget, but could not build it could > > not find cygwin-g++ in makespec directory. The QT seems only support > > minGW on Windows. > > Note that a QT you build for Cygwin will be an X11 app, so you'll need > to have an X11 server running in order to use it. It won't have a > Windows GUI like the MinGW flavor. I've tried to build the QT linux package, it could not find X11 event. I think I have installed X11, but I did not running X11 server. It is too much to using X11 server on window. Can the QT window package be compiled under Cygwin alternatively? > I'd also like to just point out that at several points in this thread > the implication has been made that there is some kind of "inside Cygwin" > or "it's a virtual environment". Cygwin is not some kind of emulator or > virtual machine, it is simply a standard win32 DLL. All Cygwin binaries > are standard win32 executables. Providing you have the Cygwin bin > directory to your PATH, you can launch them in any way you would launch > any standard Windows program -- from the start menu, from Explorer, from > a Windows Command Prompt, etc. -- there is nothing special about the > bash window that magically allows things to happen, nor are Cygwin apps > in any way obligated to only run there. > > Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/