[mythtv-users] Status of Win32 builds for MythTV
ajp at cantabrian.co.nz
ajp at cantabrian.co.nz
Sun Sep 8 01:30:16 UTC 2019
Hi,
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 10:03 PM Anthony Giggins <
>> seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 15:14, Jerry Rubinow <jerrymr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 6:35 PM Anthony Giggins <
>>>> seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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>
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>
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 Jerry,
>>>
>>> 29-fixes binaries would be awesome, however if that's not possible
>>> perhaps 30-fixes I can always upgrade.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>
>> I should have some binaries and a halfway decent set of changes for a
pull
>> request before the end of the week. I will try to create binaries for 29
>> and 30.
>>
>> Any suggestions on where to host them?
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>
>How about github?
>
>Many project distribute Binaries and Installers there.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Anthony
>
Hi,
I can't see any more emails about these Win32 frontend builds, are they
available as that would be really great ?
Cheers Tony
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