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Month: February 2012

Re: [trinity-devel] Success! tqtinterface builds Fine on Arch from git

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:47:00 -0600
>> TQt3 allows the TDE developers to use Qt4 libraries within
>> TDE
>> applications, e.g. Webkit.  Qt3 does not allow this due
>> to C++ namespace
>> conflicts (technically it is a problem with both the
>> compiler and linker
>> caused by two different definitions of common classes such
>> as QObject, but
>> the previous description gets the point across in a succinct
>> manner).
>>
>> I strongly recommend using tqt3 if posssible, but am keeping
>> qt3 compatibility via tqtinterface for everything except the
>> language bindings
>> modules (tdebindings, python-tqt, etc.).
>>
>> Does this help?
>
> Clear as mud. :)
>
> You wrote "...am keeping qt3 compatibility via tqtinterface..." When
> building with TQt3, do we still have to build tqtinterface too? Or is
> tqtinterface required only when building with Qt3? I could discover the
> answer the hard way next time I build....
>
> Darrell

tqtinterface is required in all cases.  If you have any questions feel
free to ask!

Tim