On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 15:24, bart at solozone.com wrote: > I have cygwin and I got ./configure to go as far as 'freetype' In fact the > cgywin repository HAS said freetype and even fontconfig. It has, too, an rpm > facility. I am not sure about qt3 though. I guess I could compile that under > cygwin. > Before I frustrate myself completely does anyone have any advice? bart at solozone.com
Loads :-) I've done it with pre 0.9 Scribus. I have not tried in a while, tho it is on the list. You will need the complete KDE-Cygwin package installed including the devel-stuff, all the automagic bits from cygwin *and* the speciallly patched ld from kde-cygwin. Then, whatever is missing from the compile docs on scribus.net. It is a long list. The newly released KDE-Cygwin Qt packages are build with gcc 3.x and newer versions of Scribus will not compile easily with 2.95.3. Try to use the KDE-Cygwin packages first, then use the regular cygwin packages. Once you have KDE-Cygwin installed and working, then you are ready to start trying to compile Scribus. You may need to explictly point the ./configure script to the qt libs e.g. ./configure --with-qt-dir= and so on until ./configure is happy. The Cygwin +KDE-Cygwin + build tools was over 1GB, IIRC. Other hints/issues: Printing support is minimal at the moment. The Kde-Cygwin team is small but very helpful in answering questions *provided* you have read through the docs and the mailing lists. Scribus has trouble finding its plug-ins. So functions which are plug-ins did not work. This may need some patches to the source code. I think I know enough about Cygwin and Scribus to help there. Be patient ! I am on irc on #scribus quite a bit.. that might be where I can answer questions as you work through the issues. Good luck and keep us posted please Peter
