[bt-devel] Windows SVN Build

[Gary Holmlund]

Greg Hellings wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Gary Holmlund <gary.holmlund at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Greg Hellings wrote:
>>     
>>> Hot on the heels of my earlier e-mail: here's the current Windows
>>> build of the latest SVN tree.  I've lost track of if we're at the Beta
>>> or Alpha stage still.  Probably still should be labeled an Alpha for
>>> the Windows build, regardless of where the code is for other builds.
>>> You can grab it at
>>>
>>> http://www.crosswire.org/~ghellings/WinInstaller.msi
>>>
>>> I didn't update the .png files from the newer .svg files.  I should
>>> really write a Python script to do that, but keep forgetting.  Anyway,
>>> as always, give me a hollar if it doesn't work out or there is
>>> something the matter with the build and build process.
>>>
>>>       
>> Thanks for building this version.
>>
>> The look of the svg files has not changed so there is no need to update the
>> png's. Also, I will able to build a windows debug version with Qt 4.5.0 and
>> found that the svg files worked and the png files were not needed.
>>     
>
> Oh, is Qt 4.5.0 released into the wild yet or is it still in beta?  If
> so, I will grab it and rebuild against that with the .svg files as the
> included form.  That would also be a good chance for me to update the
> Windows Build Instructions to include the /Zc option in clucene-core
> build and weed out all the extra work around I had put in before the
> changes to the build process.
>   
It was final released about a month ago.
> Have you happened to test the Unicode issues in the current build I
> released? That had, IIRC, been the cause for looking at making char
> equivalent to wchar_t and other such modifications.  I also don't know
> if forcing the /Zc:wchar_t- option into clucene-core will make Lucene
> do strange things for us.
>   
I just tried your release. It installed in the c:\Program 
Files\WinInstaller directory. When I tried to run it I got the message 
"WARNING: Cannot find license directory relative to c:\Program 
Files\WinInstaller\bin" and then it quits.

Gary