[Mingw-w64-public] problem compiling QT: where to report?

2016-03-24 Thread Mario Emmenlauer
Dear All, thanks for the awesome mingw64, and for the equally awesome msys2. Installation has been almost trivial, very nice work! For the learning experience, I'm trying to compile Qt 5.5.1 for x86_64, but I fail. It goes quite a while, but then it fails with: g++ -c -include .pch/release/qt_pc

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] problem compiling QT: where to report?

2016-03-24 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
Hi Mario, A thing as large as Qt is quite daunting to get to work, often because each little thing you try requires a full rebuild to make sure the change was actually propagated through all the layers of the build system. I would suggest starting from the PKGBUILD for the binary package, which

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] problem compiling QT: where to report?

2016-03-24 Thread Mario Emmenlauer
Hi Ruben, thanks for this very very good pointer!! I did not dare look behind the scenes of the MinnGW packages, but it turns out that was my mistake, they are indeed readable, and helpful! :-) One more question, if I may: in the PKGBUILD you pointed out, there seems to be a "wild" :-) mix of re

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] problem compiling QT: where to report?

2016-03-24 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
Hi Mario, I'd say, prefer the mingw variant, but this is a delicate recommendation. I haven't tried to build Qt5 myself since the script exists, so I'm not able to give you any info. I do know that Qt configure generates MSYS makefiles so you'll need MSYS make, not mingw32-make to actually build

[Mingw-w64-public] Problems with finding DLLs

2016-03-24 Thread Phillip Lord
I am having a problem running an application which requires an external DLL. The strange thing is that it occurs only when build for i686 and not x86_64 I am trying to build the Emacs pretests using mingw-w64 and msys2. On windows, Emacs uses libXpm-noX4.dll. So, to enable a "standalone" install

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Problems with finding DLLs

2016-03-24 Thread Óscar Fuentes
phillip.l...@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) writes: > I am having a problem running an application which requires an external > DLL. The strange thing is that it occurs only when build for i686 and > not x86_64 > > I am trying to build the Emacs pretests using mingw-w64 and msys2. On > windows, Emac

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] problem compiling QT: where to report?

2016-03-24 Thread Greg Jung
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 3:03 AM, Mario Emmenlauer wrote: > > Hi Ruben, > > thanks for this very very good pointer!! I did not dare look behind > the scenes of the MinnGW packages, but it turns out that was my > mistake, they are indeed readable, and helpful! :-) > > One more question, if I may: i