RE: Status of cygwin KDE project - beta version of dll based qt 2.3.0 library is running

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> Hi people,
> 
> Today a beta version of qt 2.3.0 as dll(!) is compiled. All examples
> delivered except the opengl because of missing opengl support 
> in the xfree
> server (I guess) are running.


You might be having one of those installing dual headers issues....
Andre Bleau took SGI OpenGL headers, which are part of Xfree86 4.0,
modified them so GLX extension is not used.  His modified headers
had been part of Cygwin and being installed in /usr/include/GL.

Are you getting undefined referneces when compiling KDE Opengl modules?
If so, what might be going on your; compiler is picking GL headers
from /usr/include/GL and linking to /usr/lib/libopengl.a.  Those
headers do not have GLX extensions, therefore your KDE applications
will fail. Make sure you you use original GL headers from
/usr/X11R6/include/GL
and libraries from /usr/X11R6/lib

This is another example of taking headers and library our of this project
and making life of contributors and developers a bit difficult over here.

Suhaib

> 
> Thanks to Paul Sokolovski for supporting "auto-import-patch" ld patch
> 
> The next step is to finish proper qt-platform config file for 
> cygwin and to
> integrate the ld patch in current binutils distribution
> The third step will be patching libtool and kde makefiles to create
> kde-dll's. (Perhaps Stefan Kulow can help with this ??)
> 
> For basic kde-on-Cygwin project infos look at
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q2/msg01159.html
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Ralf Habacker
> EMail: Ralf@habacker.de
>        Ralf.Habacker@saght.tessag.com
>