[mythtv] Fwd: Myth Win32 Dep script

[buzz]

Devs, just forwarding this for the record, for the Win32 people..... it seem
we have another Win32 success, this time on vista!....

Extracting the key info from Wayne's email, it appears a necessary tweak
appears to be that Vista needs to use  "GCC Tech Preview 4.2.1 ", not the
MinGW default of 3.4.5 (which works on XP).

Also, both my (XP), and Wayne's (VIsta) mythbackend.exe are working  - the
frontend communicates with the backend, and backend with the database (ie at
least as far as is possible without support for a tuner yet).

* Wayne alos says "Please let your fellow developers(GNU and Win) know that
I deeply appreciate [all] your efforts".

BUzz.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Wayne Gibson <gr8gib at hotmail.com>
Date: Jan 12, 2008 2:59 PM
Subject: Myth Win32 Dep script
To: davidbuzz at gmail.com


David,

Awesome work on the script. I never thought I'd see the day that myth would
run on my windows box. I actually watched live tv from my remote backend :)
Working with your script and Andrei instructions reminds me of building Myth
0.09 on Red Hat(showing my age). Anyway, I don't really belong to or
contribute to the mythtv lists but I wanted to tell you how I got MythTV
running on Vista Home Basic32. I started trying before you wrote your script
and found that the default C compiler that comes with MinGW doesn't work at
all on Vista so I started to use 4.2.2 from the links on wiki page which did
appear to work. Now things would compile but I couldn't get past QT
build(something about --auto-import not enabled in ld.exe). So I started
using your script at version 12(patched to 13 at some point) and right after
MinGW and msys install, GCC 3.4.5 wouldn't work(C compiler unable to make
executables). So I downloaded GCC 4.2.2 and started script over with the
same result at QT(something about --auto-import not enabled in ld.exe). I
now download the GCC Tech Preview 4.2.1 and do as the wiki says. QT finally
compiles and lo and behold myth does to. Run make_run script, double click
mythfrontend.exe and brrrr, ERROR: libmyth-0.20.dll is not a windows
executable....(longest windows msgbox warning i ever saw) Then I realized
that when I replaced GCC with 4.2.1, there were a bunch of other files that
had sjlj in the filename that I never renamed and overwrote the original. So
I did just that, making sure to use mingw32-gfortran-sjlj.exe for g77.exe.
Also after extracting the 4.2.1 file there is a
"C:\MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.2.1-sjlj" directory which I copied to
"C:\MinGW\lib" overwriting any file and merging any folder it asked about.
Did the same thing for the "C:\MinGW\libexec" folder. Also renamed
"C:\MinGW\bin\libstdc++_sjlj_6.dll" to "C:\MinGW\bin\libstdc++_6.dll". Then
deleted C:\mythtv and all folders in "C:\msys\1.0\sources" except coreutils,
svn and unzip. Also wanted a clean build of QT so deleted it as well.
Started your script and went to bed. Woke up this morning and ran make_run
script, double clicked mythfrontend.exe and it actually opened a DOS box and
gave sensible feedback(something about sql driver or connection) but I had
to go to work:(. Lets just say it was a long day. Got home from work and
built the "C:\msys\1.0\qt-3.3.x-p8\plugins\src\sqldrivers" drivers, ran
make_run script, setup mysql and followed the rest of the wiki and tried
running mythfrontend.exe again "PRESCALING THEMES" :):):)!!!!!! WOW myth
runs on windows vista. Everything that would work on a blank dummy database
seemed to work just fine. I tried to set up schedule direct lineup but
wouldn't fetch lineups(saw something in command window about wget not being
available or something). Anyway, everything seemed to work just fine, so I
made a backup of the database on my regular myth system and setup the
windows frontend to connect to it. Browsed the media library and watched a
recording. I had to change the output sound device from windows to directx
to get sound and I set the window resolution to 800 x 600 right off the bat
when using the dummy db. It was choppy but it played:) Tried LiveTV, same
results as recording :):) can even change channels. The one thing that seems
to be missing that would put me over the moon right now is the on screen
disply(can't edit cut points in recordings) but hopefully that will get
worked out somehow. Playing around and rebooting the windows box I managed
to get it to the point where, when it connects to my regular backend it
wants to update the database schema at which I promptly click EXIT!!!! Looks
like I'll have to update the regular myth sytem to keep playing with it.
It's about time to redo the whole thing anyway OS and all(still runnin
Fedora 6). The vista box is a AMD dual core 3800+ 64 bit running Win32 1 gig
mem. Let me know if there is any other info I can offer and I will be
watching the dev lists with anticipation for updates. Please let your fellow
developers(GNU and Win) know that I deeply appreciate your efforts and have
been since before "tivo" or even the "DVR" synonym.

Thank you very much,
Wayne Gibson

P.S. The mythbackend.exe seems to work as well. I was able to conect to it
when using dummy db scenerio.

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