[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #8826: Changeset [25856] brakes windows compilation with non default MinGW path

[Robert McNamara]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Jeff Lu <jll544 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > I'm wondering how your experience is on Qt 4.6?
>
> On the "production" side of things, I've been running 0.23-fixes on Qt
> 4.6.2 for
> months, without issues, on XP, Vista, and Win7 (x32 and x64).  I have yet
> to
> update my 0.23-fixes build VM to Qt 4.6.3, so I can't say if that has
> changed
> anything.
>
> My trunk build VM has Qt 4.6.3, but I haven't tested beyond compile and
> launch
> because I don't currently have a trunk backend.  That said, I haven't had
> any
> problems starting the frontend and getting the expected DB mismatch screen.
>
>
> I am experiencing a lot of issues even with app
> > startup, and they feel like Qt issues.
>
> I did encounter app initialization problems when I switched to gcc 4.4, but
> that
> was fixed by updating MinGW bintools to 2.20.  Maybe run "/mingw/bin/ld
> --version" just to make sure the update isn't being skipped somehow?  Or
> make
> sure there aren't any other copies of ld in the path?  *If* this is the
> same
> issue, another workaround is to disable ffmpeg's use of
> __attribute__((cold)).
>
>
bintools at 2.20, script run on a clean environment-- even with 4.5.3, I'm
seeing startup issues.  Hmm.


> > being unable to start most of the apps (as reported by Richard, and I am
> seeing
> >
> > it intermittently myself, on Windows 7).
>
> My build VMs are WinXP; perhaps I'll try building on a Win7 VM to see if
> that
> makes any difference.
>
>
>
Let me know if you find anything, I'm new to the Windows side of things.  If
it's just a matter of being on XP, great.

Robert
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