# [ANNOUNCE] qgit2.1rc1_win.exe 4 messages from 2007-12-24 to 2007-12-26. Participants: Marco Costalba, Peter Klavins. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/11398 ## Marco Costalba, 2007-12-24 09:13 Subject: [ANNOUNCE] qgit2.1rc1_win.exe Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/e5bfff550712240113y4acdaa11y3483705172a5980e%40mail.gmail.com ``` Here http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/qgit2.1rc1_win.exe You can find an auto-extract zip file with a version of qgit built for Windows (Vista). Requires msysgit (http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/) Is not a real installation, no registry or other Windows resources touched, just decompress in a directory, read the README and have fun. Marco ``` ## Peter Klavins, 2007-12-26 21:22 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] qgit2.1rc1_win.exe Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/fkugn8%24d2s%241%40ger.gmane.org 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 ``` ## Marco Costalba, 2007-12-26 23:23 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] qgit2.1rc1_win.exe Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/e5bfff550712261523g7aab6e76nd37257e7b21d1653%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Dec 26, 2007 10:22 PM, Peter Klavins wrote: > > 4. configure (takes significant time, around 10 minutes from > memory) configure -fast -no-qt3support -static -release -no-qmake Takes much less (about one minute) > 5. nmake (takes over an hour on a Core 2 Duo 2 GHz, > consumes 2 GByte of disk) > 2GBytes because default configure is -debug, but giving -release instead the needed space is much less because debug symbols are not built. Also use: nmake sub-src 30minutes on my Core Duo 1.5Ghz. It just compiles the Qt libraries under src directory, not Qt tools like designer, assistant and expecially the Qt examples. Note: first you need to run nmake to build makefile then, just after the makefile in main directory is built (few seconds) you can stop it and run nmake sub-src. > 16. bin\qgit (to run qgit to browse qgit4's own repository!) > msysgit must be in PATH, both Git\cmd and Git\bin. Or you can use the launch script start_qgit.bat that just adds msysgit to the PATH for you before to call qgit.exe > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Peter Klavins > Thanks Peter, Just a question. How about using the auto-extract zip I advertise in this thread? With this both Qt and qgit are already compiled and should be ready to go. Marco ``` ## Peter Klavins, 2007-12-26 23:37 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] qgit2.1rc1_win.exe Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/fkuoko%241vg%241%40ger.gmane.org In-Reply-To: ``` > Just a question. How about using the auto-extract zip I advertise in > this thread? With this both Qt and qgit are already compiled and > should be ready to go. I did use your auto-extract utility, and it worked as advertised, thanks. Just as an aside, I think it would be better for it to also package git (msysgit version), so there's no need to search for git and pre-download it. But being and old engineer at heart, I had to understand how to build qgit from scratch, and not being at all familiar with Qt, it was difficult to get it working, thus I wrote the note just in case others were having similar difficulties. I appreciate your clarification of the build steps. Do you think it's worthwhile adding this info into your README? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Klavins ```