Re: Aw: GUi won't start

[Philip Nienhuis]

Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> Doug Stewart wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden
> > <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> >
> > Stefan Mahr wrote:
> >
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Oktober 2013 um 18:07 Uhr
> > Von: PhilipNienhuis<address@hidden
> > <mailto:address@hidden>>
> > An: address@hidden
> > <mailto:address@hidden>
> > Betreff: GUi won't start
> >
> > With builds from today (17626:82b1778798d3 and
> > 17628:99ffa521ec) I note that
> > the GUI won't start, not even when invoking with --force-gui
> > flag. Neither
> > on Windows (MXE build), nor on Linux(Mageia-2).
> > Is anyone else seeing this too?
> >
> > The previous build I made (Oct 7) runs fine.
> >
> > >
> > > Did you check the configure output, is the GUI enabled? There's a new
> > > dependency (qt-webkit) since three days.
> >
> > Ah, that explains something. Thanks.
>  >
>  > Does this mean that we need qt5 now?
>
> No, I don't think so.
> 1. On my Linux box I've just built with qt-4.8.4 (runs fine now).
> 2. This web page [1] mentions a development version of Qt 4.7
> [1] http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingQtOnWindows
>
> Pulling in just libqtwebkit (+ some 20-25 other small dependencies) did
> the trick on my Linux box.
>
> For MinGW I see that we now also need (according to
> http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingQtOnWindows):
>
> - ActiveState Perl
> - Python2.x
> - Ruby
>
> (+ their implicit dependencies)
> which may add a few complications to MXE.
> Maybe the Linux variants of these dependencies can be used for
> cross-compiling with MXE.

Looks like getting qt-webkit in MXE is extremely easy: just deleting the 
line

-no-webkit \

from file

<mxe-octave-dir>/src/qt.mk

gets QtWebKit4.dll built. In the mxe log for octave I see that the GUI 
will be (cross-) built now.

Philip