Subject: Re: Qt already ported?
To: None <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Adam Gundy <adam@impala.demon.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 08/03/1997 14:48:39
In message <c=DE%a=_%p=ixos%l=MICKEY-970731095241Z-2468@mickey.munich.ixos.de> you wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> Has anyone already ported Qt to RiscBSD?  For info concerning Qt look =
> at: http://www.troll.no
> 
> I'm using voyager kernel, 1.2D. The lib compiled gracefully with gcc =
> 2.7.2.
> But every example program from the tutorial crashes with segmentation =
> fault  =3D8-(((
> I can give you more info if nobody has already tried porting Qt.
> 
> I tried to compile Qt, because I want to have a look at KDE ( =
> http://www.kde.org ).=20
> I think this project is very interesting. Any comments?

hmmm. If Qt is C++ (I seem to remember it is..), there are two possible
problems that I know of:

If it uses 'bool' types (in particular as the fifth or greater argument
to a function) then it won't work without the gcc patch I posted a while
back ("Compiler bug in g++ 2.7.2.1")...

If it uses exceptions then it won't work without applying the second
patch I posted ("g++ exceptions and gprof profiling"). There are still
some problems with exceptions though :-(

Seeya,
 Adam.
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