On 1/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ross Campbell</b> <<a href="mailto:ross.campbell@gmail.com">ross.campbell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 1/5/07, James Orr <<a href="mailto:james@orrwhat.net">james@orrwhat.net</a>> wrote:<br>> I see that qt4 is GPL, even under windows. Does this mean that if/when<br>> mythtv starts to use qt4 instead of qt3 a windows frontend may follow soon?
<br>> Maybe even a backend, but I don't care so much about that :).<br><br>Well, unfortunately I believe that the license of QT under Windows is<br>not the biggest problem with running mythfrontend under Windows.<br>
<br>At one time, it kinda-sorta-worked, so it's not impossible, and there<br>has been some quiet and promising work in the background on this that<br>I just noticed that is listed in trac ticket 1590</blockquote><div>
<br>Unfortunately we ran into a number of dead ends in the cygwin route - qt-win won't compile under cygwin, so we had to use mingw. But it turned out we couldn't use the cygwin runtime for the mythtv code at the same time we were using the mingw runtime for qt, due to heap problems. Switching the myth code to mingw meant implementing a lot of API functions, and if I'm going to do that, I'd as soon use Visual Studio Express. In any case, this all happened before the holidays but the work Jay, Robin, and I did so far was still useful.
<br><br>Things are currently on hold until I have some more free time, but once I do, the project will start up again.<br><br>-Jerry<br> </div></div>