From: Peter Klavins Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:22:39 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] qgit2.1rc1_win.exe Message-ID: In-Reply-To: > You can find an auto-extract zip file with a version of qgit built for > Windows (Vista). I found it a bit obscure as to how to rebuild qgit from scratch on Vista, so just for the record: # Set up VS2008 1. Install Visual Studio 2008 # Set up Qt4 2. Download qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3.zip from http://trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/windows and unzip into directory (e.g.,) C:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3 3. cd C:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3 4. configure (takes significant time, around 10 minutes from memory) 5. nmake (takes over an hour on a Core 2 Duo 2 GHz, consumes 2 GByte of disk) # Install git and use it to get qgit4 source 6. Download Git-1.5.4-rc1-preview20071221-corrected.exe from http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/ and install (default directory C:\Program Files\Git is fine) 7. Open Git Bash from Start menu, set up Src directory (e.g., mkdir Src, cd Src) 8. git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/qgit/qgit4.git (to get qgit sources into Src/qgit4) 9. Exit Git Bash shell # Build and run qgit 10. Open VS2008 command prompt, ensuring that VS tools are on the PATH by test invoking 'nmake' 11. Add qmake to path with PATH=C:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3\bin;%PATH% 12. Add git to path with PATH=C:\Program Files\Git\bin;%PATH% 13. Navigate to qgit4 directory (e.g., cd C:\Users\\Src\qgit4) 14. qmake (to preprocess with Qt4) 15. nmake (to build debug version) 16. bin\qgit (to run qgit to browse qgit4's own repository!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Klavins