Phonon module question -- help needed

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Originally Posted by FS Lover

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).

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Hi FS Lover,

I would also like to try to build the mingw version . Do you mind to post more detailed instruction of your work? e.g the version of qt source code used , the parameter passed to configure script , and what was patched.

I have downloaded the qt-win-opensource-src-4.5.2 , and run "configure -phonon-backend" , however the output shown that the support of phonon is disabled:

Phonon support..............no

WebKit support..............yes

QtScriptTools support.......yes

Graphics System.............raster

I don't need and don't like tools like qt creator.
I need phonon support with mingw.
I need a completely free environments and tools.
I need independence.
all of these are reasons why I chose Qt.
I can and will try even more to add phonon support to mingw version.
but I am an application developer, not an OS or programming framework developer!
spending too much time and energy in this field on a product that is not mine seems not to be rational any more.

I want html docs again to appear in qt directory too! as was the case before recent versions of qt.
I didn't like qt assistant too and I used firefox for reading docs. it is more fast, flexible and feature rich.

dont you find the index feature of qt assistant good enough to browser?

I read the whole documentation from the begining and firefox was far better for me.
additionally, qt assistant was slower on my system.
I used categorized index of html docs very well.
besides all of these firefox allowed me to enlarge fonts very easily.
for studying I almost always enlarge fonts to realy big sizes and study from a distance.
it is the reason I still have my eyes healthy!
I feel and use very better all other features of firefox such as bookmarks etc. that are standard and we use everyday in the web. it has a history too. etc...

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ialiasedLines(const QPainterPath&, QD3DBatchItem**, const QRectF&)':
painting\qpaintengine_d3d.cpp:2109: warning: converting to `int' from `qreal'
painting\qpaintengine_d3d.cpp:2110: warning: converting to `int' from `qreal'
painting\qpaintengine_d3d.cpp: In member function `virtual void QD3DDrawHelper::
addTrap(const QTessellator::Trapezoid&)':
painting\qpaintengine_d3d.cpp:2514: warning: converting to `DWORD' from `float'
painting\qpaintengine_d3d.cpp:2517: warning: converting to `DWORD' from `float'
painting\qpaintengine_d3d.cpp:2520: warning: converting to `DWORD' from `float'
painting\qpaintengine_d3d.cpp:2524: warning: converting to `DWORD' from `float'
painting\qpaintengine_d3d.cpp:2527: warning: converting to `DWORD' from `float'
painting\qpaintengine_d3d.cpp:2530: warning: converting to `DWORD' from `float'
painting\qpaintengine_d3d.cpp: In member function `void QD3DDrawHelper::tessella
te(const QPolygonF&)':
painting\qpaintengine_d3d.cpp:2568: warning: converting to `int' from `qreal'
painting\qpaintengine_d3d.cpp:2569: warning: converting to `int' from `qreal'
painting\qpaintengine_d3d.cpp: In member function `virtual void QDirect3DPaintEn
gine::updateState(const QPaintEngineState&)':
painting\qpaintengine_d3d.cpp:4425: warning: converting to `uint' from `qreal'
mingw32-make[2]: *** [tmp/obj/debug_shared/qpaintengine_d3d.o] Error 1
mingw32-make[2]: Leaving directory `D:/Qt/qt/src/gui'
mingw32-make[1]: *** [debug-all] Error 2
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `D:/Qt/qt/src/gui'
mingw32-make: *** [sub-gui-make_default-ordered] Error 2

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I get errors successively. I don't know what I should do!
can anybody help me please?

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Originally Posted by FS Lover

I read the whole documentation from the begining and firefox was far better for me.
additionally, qt assistant was slower on my system.
I used categorized index of html docs very well.
besides all of these firefox allowed me to enlarge fonts very easily.
for studying I almost always enlarge fonts to realy big sizes and study from a distance.
it is the reason I still have my eyes healthy!
I feel and use very better all other features of firefox such as bookmarks etc. that are standard and we use everyday in the web. it has a history too. etc...

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Assistant has all of those too, you know... And it has a search engine built-in which Firefox doesn't.

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Originally Posted by wysota

Assistant has all of those too, you know... And it has a search engine built-in which Firefox doesn't.

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do you mean it has a history too?!
it's slower anyway.
and since I have most of the time firefox open (for web and other offline docs), there is no desire to open another app just for reading some other doc.
additionally, apparently in recent versions (qt sdk) Assistant is merged inside qt creator. so it is now much more heavy and irrelevant for reading docs.

Don't confuse Qt with Qt SDK, they are two separate packages. And I won't believe assistant is heavier than firefox :)

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Originally Posted by benlau

Hi FS Lover,

I would also like to try to build the mingw version . Do you mind to post more detailed instruction of your work? e.g the version of qt source code used , the parameter passed to configure script , and what was patched.

I have downloaded the qt-win-opensource-src-4.5.2 , and run "configure -phonon-backend" , however the output shown that the support of phonon is disabled:

Phonon support..............no

WebKit support..............yes

QtScriptTools support.......yes

Graphics System.............raster

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maybe we should run the MS directX SDK's env batch file before configuring.
it is not mentioned in the wiki article.
but I did that last time but I got compilation errors again.
I am suspected that I should download the latest dx sdk (currently I have that kdewin installer downloaded for me).
I am going to download the latest dx sdk tomorrow and try with it again.
probably that will be my last try with mingw.
if I succeed, probably I will try to provide a step by step guide.

next, probably I will try compiling with MS VC.

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maybe we should run the MS directX SDK's env batch file before configuring.
it is not mentioned in the wiki article.

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why?!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by wysota

Don't confuse Qt with Qt SDK, they are two separate packages. And I won't believe assistant is heavier than firefox :)

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in more technical/precise words, heavier and slower are not necessarily the same/accompanied.
an app can be heavy but performs its function rapidly.

Ok, then I won't believe assistant is heavier or slower than firefox.

your beliefs proved to be false often :D

if you like firefox.. stick with it. But dont argue that what u do is the best and dust is rest.

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Originally Posted by FS Lover

your beliefs proved to be false often :D

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If you're referring to the thread about qobejct_cast then I wasn't wrong there. I just got tired of convinving a person that doesn't want to be convinced.

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Originally Posted by MrDeath

if you like firefox.. stick with it. But dont argue that what u do is the best and dust is rest.

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I want to say qt is becoming more restrictive, taking options from users. html docs are gone!
I want phonon support in mingw version too. its a very important option to use mingw version only.
I suspect they don't work sufficiently on such things in the open source version so that more people buy their commercial version.

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Originally Posted by wysota

If you're referring to the thread about qobejct_cast then I wasn't wrong there.

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so answer my last question there.

PS: although what I said was for fun somewhat.
you aren't wrong often (except in that topic).

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Originally Posted by FS Lover

I want to say qt is becoming more restrictive, taking options from users. html docs are gone!
I want phonon support in mingw version too. its a very important option to use mingw version only.
I suspect they don't work sufficiently on such things in the open source version so that more people buy their commercial version.

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sorry for my ignorance... i have Qt4.5.1,, and in the the doc folder i have html... did 4.5.2 removed them ... am i missing something..?

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Originally Posted by FS Lover

I suspect they don't work sufficiently on such things in the open source version so that more people buy their commercial version.

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Commercial and Open-source versions are now practically identical (apart from the licence descriptions in every file).

for very technical persons (well informed about the OS and system programming) you are right (somewhat).
although commercial version has active qt that open source version hasn't.
I think this is a subtle policy that open source version is available in binary form only with mingw that hasn't phonon module pre-compiled.
I am a technical guy myself, but couldn't re-compile the whole qt successfully with mingw (additionally it is bothersome since takes many hours every time).
there are many errors and needed information. there are too many combinations and possibilities. and no person and no article helped me step by step.