[mythtv-users] Re: anyone attempt mythfrontend on Cygwin?

[Aaron Griffin]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:59:38 -0400, Joseph A. Caputo
<jcaputo1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Friday 17 September 2004 15:37, Joel Anderson wrote:
> > > I'm very interested to hear any success or failure stories.  It
> > > would be really cool to have at least the frontend running from
> > > Windoze. --
> > > Joel
> >
> > Ok, I see from the archives that a few have had at least limited
> > success, so I figured I'd give it a shot.  So far I _think_ I have
> > all the prerequisites installed, but on attempting to compile myth I
> > get this error:
> >
> > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/
> >ld: cannot find -lqt-mt
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make[2]: *** [cygmythavcodec-0.16-0.dll] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Joel/mythtv-0.16/libs/libavcodec'
> > make[1]: *** [sub-libavcodec] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Joel/mythtv-0.16/libs'
> > make: *** [sub-libs] Error 2
> 
> Well, either:
> 
> - you haven't installed Qt (at least not properly)
> - Qt is installed but it's not built with threading support (the
> libqt-mt.so versus libqt.so)
> - Qt is installed but the library is someplace the linker doesn't know
> about.
> 
> -JAC
> 
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If you installed Qt for windows, don't do that.  Download the Qt
source package and compile it under cygwin (or download a cygwin
compiled version.... you may be able to find precompiled packages
somewhere.... like here:
http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3/download.php

hehehe

see what happens there
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