Phonon module question -- help needed

hi ,
this is almost the repeat post of phonon module question. how can i get phonon enabled and use it in applications with qt-4.5.1-mingw-windows.exe version? is it compulsory to compile sources of qt to active phonon? thanks in advance. bye

Please read this: http://wiki.qtcentre.org/index.php?t...ws_using_MinGW
But, you also need a GCC-adapted dvdmedia.h file from the Strawberry Perl (strawberryperl.com) package. Copy this dvdmedia.h into the include dir of MinGW, and recompile Phonon and backend.
Another way - you can recomile the whole Qt with Visual Studio C++.

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Another way - you can recomile the whole Qt with Visual Studio C++.

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can I then compile my qt progs with mingw?

No, you need to stick with one compiler.

I prefer mingw. Its simple and my way. its free software. universal. cross platform (a thing qt is/claims to be). I am a free software lover (hence the username FS Lover). I like independence too.
I will try to compile phonon with mingw.
but I haven't high speed internet connection in home. tommorow I will download kdewin32 package at work.
but I have a question in advance. that wiki article says 'Copy the file comdef.h from kdewin32/include/mingw into kdewin32/include/directx'.
so where is the kdewin32/include/directx on my system? should I install anything before?

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Originally Posted by FS Lover

so where is the kdewin32/include/directx on my system? should I install anything before?

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It's inside the kdewin package you first have to download.

this link: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/kdewin32/
does not work and I couldn't find any other download link.
can anybody help me please?

another question: why is dvdmedia.h from strawberry perl needed? its not mentioned in the wiki article.

I found http://windows.kde.org/download.php. is that ok?
additionally it seems that overal download will be huge (see http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE...s_and_contents). I have a 256Kb connection.
is there any way for downloading only those components necessary for compiling phonon?

apparently kdewin32 installer has a package selection for download, but I don't know which packages should I choose. also there is a binary, a devel, and a src selection option for each package; which ones should I select?

oh no, it has too many options!! too many packages. too many bytes. it huge!
please help me! help...

Please edit your posts instead of replying to your own posts.

I am downloding. I chose only some packages that I thought are relevant to phonon. some have clear names (phonon*).
microsoft directx sdk alone is about 452MB and its download is in progress now.
in the installer program there were some options such as mingw or msvc type that I chose mingw version. I think these can cause mistakes buy less powerful users.
they don't certainly know which type and packages should they download.
I think a step by step tutorial with exactly those minimal resources required for compiling phonon is a must.

BTW I think I found another repository for kdewin32 files by looking at some ini file of the kdewin32 installer program, so I insert that link here so that if someone some day find this topic probably there is some useful info for him:
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/kde/stable/4.2.3/win32/

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Originally Posted by FS Lover

this link: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/kdewin32/
does not work and I couldn't find any other download link.
can anybody help me please?

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It's http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/kdewin/

now I have these files downloaded:

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29,114 config.txt
462,460,792 dxsdk_apr2007.exe
475,844 OggDS0995.exe
54 expat-2.0.1-bin.zip.md5
66,829 expat-2.0.1-bin.zip
65 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-bin.tar.bz2.md5
384,131 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-bin.tar.bz2
65 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-lib.tar.bz2.md5
147,308 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-lib.tar.bz2
65 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-src.tar.bz2.md5
566,452 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-src.tar.bz2
65 dbus-mingw-1.2.4-1-bin.tar.bz2.md5
1,170,713 dbus-mingw-1.2.4-1-bin.tar.bz2
63 qt-mingw-4.4.3-3-bin.tar.bz2.md5
16,037,341 qt-mingw-4.4.3-3-bin.tar.bz2
60 runtime-mingw-1.0-bin.zip.md5
3,604 runtime-mingw-1.0-bin.zip
827 kdewin-installer.log

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are they sufficient?
any help please?
have I to install with kde installer first?

wiki: Make sure your Qt is configured with -phonon -phonon-backend.
how?

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Originally Posted by FS Lover

wiki: Make sure your Qt is configured with -phonon -phonon-backend.
how?

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Pass those switches to configure

I am ready to re-compile qt.
but I want to know before if MS DirectX SDK or any other windows related parts should be installed on my system or not before compiling qt.
I have windows XP SP2.

should I issue the build commands in the src dir?

I am also looking for method to use phonon on windows.. I found that phonon is present in the kdewin32 project. Is it possible to use the precompiled binary from the project?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kde-windows/files/

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Originally Posted by FS Lover

should I issue the build commands in the src dir?

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Follow the contents of the INSTALL file.

I am quite confused about the instruction now..

1. In fact, what is phonond.dll ? I think the correct name for DS9 background is phonon_ds9.dll , and the dll of phonon is phonond.dll . I have searched "phonond" in the source tree of qt 4.5.2 , but could only found the target of phonon_ds9

2. Do I need to build kdewin32?

3. Do I need to recompile the whole QT 4.5.2? Or I need to build the DS9 backend only?

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Originally Posted by benlau

Is it possible to use the precompiled binary from the project?

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I tried this already but I couldn't get it to work.

it seems that there should exist some more easy and reliable way for solving all of this mess:

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Thank you for your mail. You can try the following patch, which still hasn't been accepted by MinGW, it should solve the problem:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func...35&atid=302435

Regards,

Martin

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Martin Pejcoch, Support Engineer
Qt Software, Nokia, Oslo, Norway

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but the patch was not completely successful; it had one case of reject.
I tried to apply the rejected section manually (I found those C syntax errors in a struct within another .h file);
I started re-compiling qt; that took several hours but eventually I got webkit compilation errors, phonon plugin/backend was not created (although a phonon.dll was created), and programs (qt examples) while compiled and executed without errors but couldn't playback any file.

now, I decided to download the (probably whole) kdewin and try another way according to the the wiki article.

after about 6 hours of compiling, I got the same results as with the mingw patch method.
although I downloaded only those parts of the kdewin project's source tree that seemed to be necessary (mingw and directx includes).
I still have some ideas to try (downloading whole kdewin doesn't seem to be necessary, so it would be on the end of the list).

there are several possible combination of methods and configurations to try.

it seems that there is a problem with compiling webkit. can anybody tell me how to disable (re)compiling of webkit?

I am now compiling again.
this time with a combination of methods.
I patched mingw headers and added extra .h files.
I replaced qt's phonon sources with those in the kdewin project.
I acted according to the wiki article too.
finally I specified the release target to the mingw32-make command (probably it will work and will be much faster for my tests since no debug dlls are generated).

any help/advice and ideas are very welcome.

somebody some day should address this problem.
qt is amongst the few free/open source alternative gui/application frameworks on windows for us. personally I hate dependence on tools like MS VC (I think it is not free software too that is even worse).
and it is very unfortunate that phonon support is lacked with mingw version of qt while it has no problem with MS VC or on other platforms. qt claims to be cross platform and it is one of the reasons we chose it. but now its in doubt with this ugly situation.
It should not be so hard and complicated to solve since all involved parts are free/open source software that are available for windows too.