[bt-devel] Windows build problems

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

Greg Hellings wrote:

> 
> 2) bibletime-2.0.0alpha3-win32.exe - an installer, built with CPack,
> that should install everything needed for users of BibleTime on
> Windows.  Again, YMMV, but I've actually tested it, this time, on my
> XP virtual machine and everything installs and runs.  I'm not able to
> get the SVG files running on XP, but there is a QtSvg4.dll and
> QtSvgd4.dll in the 4.5.0 build -- getting those linked in properly (I
> modified CMakeLists.txt to link in the SVG libraries, but I they don't
> seem to be used) might solve our issue of that display.

I can confirm the problems you previously told about. The toolbar is in 
wrong place. Maybe it has a wrong parent or something like that. But it 
works correctly on Linux/Qt4.5. If I hide/show it again (go on top of 
Bookshelf, Bookmarks or Mag title and use RMB menu) it goes to the 
correct place and works correctly.

It's really slow. It wasn't with previous package. It works well with 
Linux/Qt4.5, and I don't believe Qt has released anything this bad. But 
either I don't believe it's our code, because it has worked well all the 
time sans some exceptions: opening the bookshelf manager where 
populating the list view takes long time; opening the install progress 
dialog. These are really slow now, too, but I feel slowness also 
elsewhere. On the other hand, after it has been used some time it works 
quite well.

There are still problems with sword configuration. BibleTime uses 
home/.sword by default. Maybe we have to change that and use the Xiphos 
model. And there appears .sword directory under Program Files/BibleTime. 
It's wrong because it includes changing data.

There are just too many TODO items right now with Sword 1.6 and Qt 4.5 
and other things so I can't concentrate on these. We need more developers...

--Eeli Kaikkonen