Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Installing gpsbabel on Intel Edison

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At 11:06 AM 7/17/17, Robert Lipe wrote:
>see you need to install Qt, and you're ready to go

Nope. Qt won't build on my Win10 machine, nor would it build
on my Win7 box before it. Even when it did sort of work after
a week of thrashing on my old Vista box, the GPSBabel build
environment didn't build the GUI exe. Installing Qt is by no
means a simple task, in my experience, and I eventually gave up.

At 11:35 AM 7/17/17, Allen Edwards wrote:
>"Install Qt" isn't that obvious to this non expert.

I agree. That's my point. That's why I'm stirring the pot.

Even if you can get it to build or install, the config and
overlapping dependencies are killer. There is certainly a
solution to the maze, but I never found it. I used to write
$70k/copy custom software for Unix, sold internationally, so
I'm not stoopid but I'm also not up to date.

I've asked several times if anyone has a working Windoze build
environment for GPSBabel, and only heard crickets. If my info
is out of date, I'd love to get going again. (But I'm unlikely
to go back to Unix given the set of tools I'm using this decade.)

Steve