Craig Ringer wrote: > Hi folks > > There have been repeated questions here about how to build Scribus for > Windows, and we've never been able to give a particularly satisfactory > answer because it's involved a non-public version of Qt, some hand-built > Visual Studio projects and a bit of fiddling. > > Thanks to Jean Ghali's great work on the win32 port, TrollTech's recent > decision to support Qt/Win Open Source with Visual Studio, and some > recent enhancements to the CMake build system used in Scribus, it's now > much easier to build Scribus for Windows. You can do a build using only > the main svn trunk source distribution and unmodified library sources. > Cairo is still rather tricky, but Arthur works out of the box and with a > canned Cairo library cairo is similarly simple to use with Scribus. > > This support is only in svn trunk. It will never be backported to > 1.3.3.x or 1.3.4 because these versions do not use Qt 4 and there is no > stable public version of Qt 3 for Windows. As such, it's not much good > for building a copy of Scribus that you'll want to use for real work > just yet. On the other hand, if you want to get into Scribus development > and contribute but you're only used to working on Windows with Visual > Studio or your interest is in improving win32 specific functionality, it > might be an opportunity to get involved. > > To get started, you'll need to check out scribus svn trunk (see > www.scribus.net) and read BUILDING_win32.txt . These instructions are > ... rough ... but should cover the basics if you're used to working on > Windows. They will be improved. > > If you decide to give it a go and have problems, consider dropping in on > IRC or asking for help here. Just remember to include FULL ERROR > MESSAGES, commands run, Visual Studio version, etc if you do ask for help. > Also, I'd like to update (or others with a wiki account can do it themselves) this Wiki page: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Building_Scribus_on_Windows I've already added Craig's note to the page, and want to try to add as much specific information as I can to help those who want to build on Win32.
Send corrections or additions to the List or me dircctly. Thanks. Greg
