[mythtv-users] Status of Win32 builds for MythTV

[mythtv at kosowsky.org]

Hi Jerry,
About 18 months ago, you referenced a Windows version of mythtv that
you had compiled.

I am currently using mythtv 31 and was wondering whether you could
share access to any relevant binaries or even build scripts (if easy
enough to follow - note I don't have a build environment for Windows,
so my capabilities are limited).

Would love to get the frontend at least  working on Windows if
possible.

Thanks,
Jeff

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
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