>> Visual Studio 2005trial installed fine. It took a very long time and >> appeared to stall (no progress but little cpu or disk) at times but it >> did complete. I got most of my build tools installed. I use >> cmake-2.8.0. Anyways the first step is to build Qt 4.6.0 under visual >> studio. I tried that 3 to 5 times in a couple of different methods >> (msbuild, vcbuild, ide, nmake) but was not successful. The >> multithreaded building methods (ide - batch build, vsbuild,msbuild) >> did not use multiple threads and crashed during the build. nmake was >> slow and I believe also exhibited the pauses like I mentioned in >> installing visual studio. I am a little too busy at the day job to >> spend much more time right now at this. > > Coincidentally, I got Chrome to link in Visual Studio 2005 trial today. > And there was one step in the build process where I had to > tell it to only use one process, or it would misbehave. > It's also important to run the pdb server manually and make it persistent, > else you can get hangs. > This seems to have improved things a lot. wine mspdbsrv -start -spawn > > The hang during install is very different, it's a known issue with msi, > not related to the hangs building things with visual studio that > happen if you don't start the pdb server by hand. (I have my > build script start it.) > > Maybe I'll have a look at building Qt, then. Feel like filing a quick > bug report about it? > I found a way to get Qt installed. I installed the VisualStudio2008 version http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/windows-cpp-vs2008 Then inside that I reconfigured it for 2005 (QMAKESPEC="win32-msvc2005") and rebuilt it entirely using nmake. After Qt built I started building the libraries needed for this project. These libraries use cmake to generate project files. The first configure in the cmake-gui of cmake-2.8.0 on each project fails with no progress after the first step however closing the window then starting again with cmake-gui then works. After that I can load the project with visual studio and all builds fine. I had to add an environment variable for cmake to get my configs to work. For some reason cmake thinks my 32 bit wine install under 64 bit gentoo is a 64 bit machine and then in my CMakeLists.txt file I detect a 64 bit machine and then use the environment variable ProgramW6432 which was not set in my environment. At this point I have 2 out of 5 libraries (in house stuff) built. I will try the rest as soon as I can. Thanks, John
