[mythtv-users] Status of Win32 builds for MythTV

[ajp at cantabrian.co.nz]

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>From: mythtv-users <mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org> On Behalf Of
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>Sent: Monday, 22 July 2019 6:44 pm
>To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Status of Win32 builds for MythTV
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>Jerry Rubinow wrote at about 01:13:15 -0400 on Monday, July 22, 2019:
> > On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 6:35 PM Anthony Giggins
<seven at seven.dorksville.net>  > wrote:
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> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 at 04:05, Jerry Rubinow <jerrymr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 12:57 AM <mythtv at kosowsky.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I am looking to find and/or build a Windows mythtv frontend for ver
> >>> 29.1.
> > >>>
> > >>> In looking at the wiki
> > >>> (https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV_on_Windows), there doesn't seem
to  > >>> be anything updated since circa 2013 and ver 23.
> > >>>
> > >>> - Has anyone successfully built a Windows frontend using a recent
mythtv
> > >>>   version?
> > >>> Are there any pre-builds available?
> > >>> Failing that, are there any updated build instructions?
> > >>>
> > >>> I like the idea of watching mythtv from my Windows laptop...
> > >>>
> > >>> Best,
> > >>> Jeff
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> A few years ago dblain made a powershell script and a wiki page for
> >> compiling using Visual Studio.  I was able to successfully compile  >
>> everything using master and the 2019 >Community version  (the free one)
of  > >> Visual Studio.
> > >>
> > >> The web page is here:
> > >> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV_on_Windows_using_Visual_Studio  It
> >> talks about QT with versions of Visual Studio newer than 2010 not
working  > >> because QT doesn't >have 32-bit OpenGL support for newer
versions of  > >> Studio.  It also says 64 bit builds cannot be done because
of lack of  > >> support for inline assembly in Studio.  However, I was able
>to compile a  > >> 64-bit version without compile issues, so perhaps the
myth source has  > >> conditionals for that now.  Compiling a 64-bit app
gets around the QT issue  > >> I assume.
> > >>
> > >> I had to do a few small fixups to get a good compile:
> > >> - the tool set and platform had to be updated to 142 and 10 for a few
> >> .vcxproj project files (expat, exiv2, and libzmq)  > >> - there were a
dozen .pro files that needed QT += >widgets in them.  There  > >> was
conditional code in them that was not adding them.  Not sure why  > >>  > >>
I was using QT 5.13.0.
> > >>
> > >> I ran mythtv\mythtv\configure.ps1 OutputType sln  > >> This generated
a solution file that I could then load in Studio and  > >> compile.
> > >>
> > >> Big disclaimer: I only claim to have built everything without compile
or  > >> link errors.  I did not test for a successful run, as I'm not setup
for  > >> that right now.  If you want my git >diff output, let me know.
> > >>
> > >> -Jerry
> > >>
> > >>
> > > Did you have any binaries you'd like to share, I'd happily test,
although  > > I'm still running version 29  > >  > > Also which version did
you compile? 29-fixes, 30-fixes or master?
> > >
> > > also why not submit a pull request to merge your changes back in? or a
> > link to your fork atleast  > >  > > Cheers,  > >  > > Anthony  > >  >  >
I'd be happy to share binaries.  I built >against master, but I could switch
> to a different branch if that would be more helpful. Let me know.
> >
> > I would like to get the changes I made merged back in, but I made my
.pro  > file changes without really understanding why they weren't working
as they  > were.  Why didn't the >following include widgets?  I had to move
the widgets  > line outside the condition for the code to compile.
> >
> > contains(QT_VERSION, ^5\\.[0-9]\\..*) {  > QT += widgets  > }  >  >
Anyway, once I get that sorted I'll make a pull request.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jerry
>
>Thanks!
>Would be really great to have it all merged in so that we can build on your
effort and not recreate the wheel.
>
>I am surprised that there is not more of a demand for a Windows version --
I would think there would be many people out there like myself that have a
Linux server but still have Windows >laptops... and it's great to watch the
video directly on MythTV over Windows rather than having to download the
video to my laptop and run mplayer...
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+ 1 vote for 64-bit Windows binaries , yahoo