On Monday 12 June 2006 17:23, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Jun 12, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Peter Brett wrote: > >> "Portable" meaning "runs on different Linux 'distros'", or portable > >> to other OSs and architectures? If it's truly portable, this is a > >> great step forward for application interoperability. I need to read > >> up > >> on this! > > > > If it didn't port to everything Qt ports to, KDE4 wouldn't be built > > around it. > > > > Including Windows. > > > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2006-May/004755.html > > Well KDE isn't exactly a shining example of portability, man. ;) Is > Qt more portable than KDE? As in, if I try to compile > Solaris/UltraSPARC binaries for it with Sun's notoriously (and > gloriously!) picky compiler, will I end up with libraries, or less > hair? > > (I've not touched Qt for quite a while) Qt is probably the most portable toolkit! It runs natively on Windows 98 and later, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, *BSD, ..., etc. For a commercial product it's pretty good. And there's a GPL version (which is how KDE can use it). Google Earth is implemented in Qt. http://www.trolltech.com/trolltech/developer/notes/supported_platforms lists Sun Solaris support with gcc or 'Sun CC' (which is what I assume you're referring to). As far as DBUS is concerned, why don't you just download the DBUS source code and throw your toolchain at it? wget http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-0.62.tar.gz && tar -xf dbus-0.62.tar.gz && cd dbus-0.62 && ./configure --enable-glib --enable-gtk && make Hot off the presses, this is _today's_ release. :D Doesn't gEDA use GLib? I just noticed that DBUS has a "GLib-friendly client library"... Peter P.S. Rumour has it that KDE 4 is going to work as a Windows shell replacement. :D P.P.S. If KDE doesn't compile for you, it's a bug. But they'll probably say, 'use gcc', unfortunately. -- Quake II build tools maintainer http://tinyurl.com/fkldd v2sw6YShw7$ln5pr6ck3ma8u6/8Lw3+2m0l7Ci6e4+8t4Eb8Aen5+6g6Pa2Xs5MSr5p4 hackerkey.com
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