[mythtv] Ticket #4270: MythTV on Windows (with MinGW)

Simon Kenyon simon at koala.ie
Fri Dec 28 20:55:45 UTC 2007


buzz wrote:
> Andrei,
>  
> wacking my latest (just rebuilt QT for the third time today) 
> libqsqlmysql.dll into the same folder as all my run-time dependancies 
> (ie the .exe's and .dll's) sorted it for me.   (I put that in the wiki 
> too)
>  
> I think I may have been using a much earlier build of the dll due to 
> my lack of understanding of how they are found/located with Mingw., 
> but it's gone away now... and I can now claim to be the "second" 
> person to get mythtv compiled and running for windows :-)   (but only 
> just, as Richard is probably only minutes away!)  I even 
> runs....except when it's crashing.... which is a lot.  :-)
>  
> Just thought other dev's might like to hear the small successes.
>
i have built it now also
not as far along as the rest though
i cannot get mythfrontend to connect to my remote database
says it cannot find the driver

i have qt built with the driver but i may have messed up along the way
i have to say that building qt is simply the hardest part of the whole 
process

it is also huge at over 600MB on disk (the whole shooting match, 
mingw/msys/mysql/qt/myth is over 1GB)

i think the best course of action is another complete reinstall

i have been using gcc 4.2.2 but may well go back to gcc 3 just to be sure

but i can say that mythtv in now built on my windows laptop
--
simon



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