Hello all, and many many thanks to Craig and everyone else who has put in so much time and effort into what has become such an exciting potential within the OSS/publishing community! Thank you all so much for every contribution great or small. This software represents a very exciting potential for publishers small and large.
So having written all that, I am just writing in to report that I have been working very hard on bringing back to life the potential of running Scribus on windows for testing. Thanks to the earlier groundbreaking work of the folks over at the kde-cygwin project (specifically Ralf Habacker, and =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Peter_K=FCmmel?=) I have successfully built QT 3.3.3 and as of this morning suffessfully managed to run ./configure on Scribus1.3cvs that I just checked out. Now "make" has just failed. But I just thought at this point I might be getting close enough that I could begin reporting my progress here to see what if any help or interest there my be. But I understand a Windows port is not part of anyones commitment so please do not take this with any expectation of help on my part. But perhaps I may be able to get some feedback for my efforts to compile Scribus under Cygwin/QT/X11. :) After all, it is possible now to start cygwin and run the apps in a stand-alone mode without a full-fledged X-Window Manager like KDE. Which I think would make running Scribus acceptable. Yesterday I testing running QT designer, and it started very quickly, while at the same time the process for X only took up 750K of RAM! So from my perspective it is quit livable to have the X in the systray if it doesn't cost that much. :) OK, finally, for anyone who may be intersted, here is my current output of "make": .libs/about.o(.text$_ZN5AboutD0Ev[About::~About [in-charge deleting]()]+0x1d):about.cpp: undefined reference to `QDi alog::~QDialog [not-in-charge]()' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [libabout.la] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/cboothe/src/Scribus/scribus/libabout' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/cboothe/src/Scribus/scribus' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cboothe/src/Scribus' make: *** [all] Error 2 cboothe at IT-staff ~/src/Scribus $ Cheers! Steven
