[mythtv-users] Status of Win32 builds for MythTV

[mythtv at kosowsky.org]

mythtv at kosowsky.org wrote at about 02:43:38 -0400 on Monday, July 22, 2019:
 > Jerry Rubinow wrote at about 01:13:15 -0400 on Monday, July 22, 2019:
 >  > On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 6:35 PM Anthony Giggins <seven at seven.dorksville.net>
 >  > wrote:
 >  > 
 >  > >
 >  > >
 >  > > On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 at 04:05, Jerry Rubinow <jerrymr at gmail.com> wrote:
 >  > >
 >  > >> On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 12:57 AM <mythtv at kosowsky.org> wrote:
 >  > >>
 >  > >>> I am looking to find and/or build a Windows mythtv frontend for ver
 >  > >>> 29.1.
 >  > >>>
 >  > >>> In looking at the wiki
 >  > >>> (https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV_on_Windows), there doesn't seem to
 >  > >>> be anything updated since circa 2013 and ver 23.
 >  > >>>
 >  > >>> - Has anyone successfully built a Windows frontend using a recent mythtv
 >  > >>>   version?
 >  > >>> Are there any pre-builds available?
 >  > >>> Failing that, are there any updated build instructions?
 >  > >>>
 >  > >>> I like the idea of watching mythtv from my Windows laptop...
 >  > >>>
 >  > >>> Best,
 >  > >>> Jeff
 >  > >>>
 >  > >>
 >  > >> A few years ago dblain made a powershell script and a wiki page for
 >  > >> compiling using Visual Studio.  I was able to successfully compile
 >  > >> everything using master and the 2019 Community version  (the free one) of
 >  > >> Visual Studio.
 >  > >>
 >  > >> The web page is here:
 >  > >> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV_on_Windows_using_Visual_Studio  It
 >  > >> talks about QT with versions of Visual Studio newer than 2010 not working
 >  > >> because QT doesn't have 32-bit OpenGL support for newer versions of
 >  > >> Studio.  It also says 64 bit builds cannot be done because of lack of
 >  > >> support for inline assembly in Studio.  However, I was able to compile a
 >  > >> 64-bit version without compile issues, so perhaps the myth source has
 >  > >> conditionals for that now.  Compiling a 64-bit app gets around the QT issue
 >  > >> I assume.
 >  > >>
 >  > >> I had to do a few small fixups to get a good compile:
 >  > >> - the tool set and platform had to be updated to 142 and 10 for a few
 >  > >> .vcxproj project files (expat, exiv2, and libzmq)
 >  > >> - there were a dozen .pro files that needed QT += widgets in them.  There
 >  > >> was conditional code in them that was not adding them.  Not sure why
 >  > >>
 >  > >> I was using QT 5.13.0.
 >  > >>
 >  > >> I ran mythtv\mythtv\configure.ps1 OutputType sln
 >  > >> This generated a solution file that I could then load in Studio and
 >  > >> compile.
 >  > >>
 >  > >> Big disclaimer: I only claim to have built everything without compile or
 >  > >> link errors.  I did not test for a successful run, as I'm not setup for
 >  > >> that right now.  If you want my git diff output, let me know.
 >  > >>
 >  > >> -Jerry
 >  > >>
 >  > >>
 >  > > Did you have any binaries you'd like to share, I'd happily test, although
 >  > > I'm still running version 29
 >  > >
 >  > > Also which version did you compile? 29-fixes, 30-fixes or master?
 >  > >
 >  > > also why not submit a pull request to merge your changes back in? or a
 >  > > link to your fork atleast
 >  > >
 >  > > Cheers,
 >  > >
 >  > > Anthony
 >  > >
 >  > 
 >  > I'd be happy to share binaries.  I built against master, but I could switch
 >  > to a different branch if that would be more helpful. Let me know.
 >  > 
 >  > I would like to get the changes I made merged back in, but I made my .pro
 >  > file changes without really understanding why they weren't working as they
 >  > were.  Why didn't the following include widgets?  I had to move the widgets
 >  > line outside the condition for the code to compile.
 >  > 
 >  > contains(QT_VERSION, ^5\\.[0-9]\\..*) {
 >  > QT += widgets
 >  > }
 >  > 
 >  > Anyway, once I get that sorted I'll make a pull request.
 >  > 
 >  > Thanks,
 >  > Jerry
 > 
 > Thanks!
 > Would be really great to have it all merged in so that we can build on
 > your effort and not recreate the wheel.

Jerry, were you ever able to post and share the Windows binaries for
MythTV?
Thanks