I finally convinced myself to try installing QT, despite the massive size, and the huge amount of files that seem mre than just a runtime (designer.exe surely is not needed to run lazarus?)

So I got qt 4-6-2 installed from qt-win-opensource-4.6.2-vs2008 I also got the Qt4Pas5.dll
Added all that to the PATH environment

And no I get the error (when trying to start lazarus) "this application has failed to start because mingwm10.dll was not found ...."

Such a dll is nowhere in the QT installation

Any ideas?

Martin

Your qt must be compiled with mingw, so you need to get this dll from a mingw installation. Google broken today?

Henry

it must be with qt dlls otherwise you downloaded wrong qt version - it must be mingw version not visual studio one.

this is wrong -> qt-win-opensource-4.6.2-vs2008
This is correct one:
http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-win-opensource-4.6.2-mingw.exe

That was what I did fear the answer would be.....

How does a none tech person use QT on Windows, then => because the above installation asks you where youre mingw installation is => So in order to use QT, you must first install mingw by hand too.....

yes there is the QT-IDE-full-development environment, which supposedly contains all of it => but a none tech (or none developer) would not need to install a full IDE, just to use an app that needs QT?

So (putting aside that I want to use Lazarus, and I am a developer), If I wasn't ... => it would be trouble to use anything that is based on QT... => that can't possible be.

so where is the point I am missing?

(Sorry this is off topic to lazarus)

Martin

In other words, if I was a user, that just wanted to use Lazarus as text editor =>
all I needed are the DLL

but if I download QT => I always get:
demos, examples, binaries, docs, tools => none of them are needed...

That the app that uses QT would distribute all the necessary libs?

Henry

Henry Vermaak wrote

That the app that uses QT would distribute all the necessary libs?

Raises the question: why doesn't lazarus...

Because there is no binary lazarus-qt release.

no, it's included in package.

there's no missed point. Qt is missing dll only packages :) So we can ask nokia to allow us to pack dll pack, then there will not be problem.

zeljko

Not here, that was what made me wonder (it definetly has the size, as if it would include them)
My whole story (or most parts of it)

I downloded the qt-win-opensource-4.6.2-mingw.exe
=> it ask me where my mingw is, because it needs gcc => it refuses to install without

So I try the other one, and it installs, but lazarus doesn't start

Now I have f9inally submitted to do, what I wanted to avoid:
- I installed the whole qt IDE
=> deleted 99% of what it installed
=> cleaned the mess from my start-menu
=> and it works

Well actually, it almost worked:
=> I got a range check error, because by default I build my lazarus whith range checks, and other checks.

So I needed to recompile again, without range-checks and now it works

And all, only so I can test occasionally that my changes to synedit, work on other platforms too....

and for some reason, all the stacktrace I can get is: [FORMS.PP] ExceptionOccurred
Sender=ERangeError
Exception=Range check error
Stack trace:
$005F6691 line 13869 of qt45.pas
$10109781
and lots of addresses without any line info

Great, I am not the only one...