Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Loading compiled plugins under Windows

[<rus...@qc...>]

  Barry,

Thanks for that. In light of your comments I will try a proper Windows 
XP install in another hypervisor.

It was the opening paragraph of the Windows build instructions page on 
the Wiki that took me down the Virtual XP Mode version route:

"Stellarium can be built in Windows XP as below. If you use Vista 32 bit 
or Windows 7 32 bit. The procedure should be the same. However I have 
tried Vista home basic and Qt creator does not work there because it 
needs cwctype declared. Msys compiling works OK in Vista home. If you 
have the 64 bit version it will be necessary to install the Virtual XP 
version from Microsoft (470MB download) and the virtual computer 
interface from Microsoft or VMware. "

Perhaps this information now needs revising?

PS, Am I also correct in presuming that the second reference to 'Vista 
home' actually refers to Vista Home Premium?


On 20/01/2011 19:49, Barry Gerdes wrote:
> Hi
>
> The problem with virtual XP system supplied by MS is that it is a very 
> primative system. I tried it some time ago and had trouble compiling 
> stellarium and many other problems. I have since installed the latest 
> VMware work station in my windows 7 64 bit ultimate and installed my 
> windows XP sp3 into it and it works just like a native installation. I 
> have a direct input to VMware and can get problems solved quickly.
>
> Barry Gerdes
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> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:15:51 +0000
> From: rus...@qc...
> To: ste...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Loading compiled plugins under Windows
>
> Just thought I'd feed back the fact that I've compiled and ran the 
> Example Dialog plugin on a native Windows XP SP3 system and it ran Ok. 
> I then tried running the the binary I'd compiled on the Virtual XP 
> system and it gave me the same problem. It would appear then that this 
> is something to do with compiling in Virtual XP Mode on a Windows 7 
> Pro system.
>
>
> On 19/01/2011 13:40, rusirius wrote:
>
>
>     I built the example 'out of the box' as it were and the StelDialog
>     class is already called StelDialogExampleDialog here, so yes, it
>     has been re-named from StelDialog to a custom name. I downloaded
>     the package file by file from here, taking care to ensure
>     everything was in the same directory structure (i.e. /, /src and
>     /src/gui).
>
>         http://stellarium.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/stellarium/trunk/extmodules/ExampleDialog/
>
>     My XP virtual machine is at SP3 as well but I downloaded the Qt
>     SDK which appears to contain version 4.7.0 of the Qt libraries. I
>     have therefore upgraded Qt to Qt4.7.1 and recompiled both
>     Stellarium and the Example Plugin. Just to be sure, I also cleared
>     the CMake cache and downloaded the plugin GNU tarball and did a
>     freash build. Unfortunately I still got the same problem.
>
>     I also updated the Stellarium source in Bazar (now at version
>     4867), cleared the CMake cache and re-compilled again but it made
>     no difference.
>
>     I can also add that on Windows I have gettext 0.14.4, libiconv
>     1.9.2-1 and zlib 1.2.3.
>
>     To me this seems to have ruled out:
>
>     - Qt library version
>     - Example Plugin version
>     - Stellarium version
>
>     The only common item here appears to be Windows. I will go through
>     the compile steps again on a real XP installation to rule out some
>     odd behaviour due to running in a VM.
>
>
>
>     On 18/01/2011 13:30, Reaves, Timothy wrote:
>
>         For your StelDialog, have you renamed it something like
>         MyPluginStelDialog, and insured your dialog subclasses this?
>
>
>     On 18/01/2011 17:52, Bogdan Marinov wrote:
>
>         On my Windows XP SP3, with Qt 4.7.1, I built ExampleDialog straight
>         out of the repository and it worked without a problem. I don't know
>         why it causes a crash on your system.
>
>         Bogdan
>
>
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