Build environment
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This an is incredibly popular project considering it has no maintainer and no developers. I've decided to see if I can learn "just enough" c++ to build what's here (create a binary release). This issue will summarize the successes on the way to that goal, if any.
Setting up the build environment.
Warning: it's many GB.
- QtCreator -
choco install qtcreator- Qt SDK - MSVC 2017 64-bit using Qt Maintenance Tool installed with QtCreator
- MS Visual Studio - build tools only else many many GB! Reboots necessary, read the notes
choco install visualstudio2017buildtoolschoco install visualstudio2017-workload-vctools
- Windows SDK -
choco install windows-sdk-10.-0
Installation is with Chocolatey wherever I have a choice. The list may be incomplete. I've installed and uninstalled several different programs and versions of programs trying to find the right combination.
Current Status
2019-09-09 as of commit a02ff34 all compiler errors are gone.
toAscii() has been deprecated in newer versions of Qt. toLatin1() is the suggested replacement, but I see toUtf8() also and decided to use that instead. Going to unicode just seems more future proof.
toWinHBITMAP doesn't have as clear a drop-in replacement, but there is https://stackoverflow.com/a/50236645/14420, "It was moved into the QtWin namespace.". Track this err in #19.
Alpha - I don't know yet, no clearly related discussion about it found so far. Track in #20.
2019-08-29
After much trial and error setting up the build env I've gotten the project down to just 1 warning and 4 errors. The first several attempts listed thousands, so there's hope!
Warnings
ThumbnailProvider.cpp(62): warning C4100: 'grfMode': unreferenced formal parameter
Errors
ThumbnailProvider.cpp(107): error C2039: 'toAscii': is not a member of 'QString'
C:\Qt\5.12.3\msvc2017_64\include\QtGui/qwindowdefs.h(79): note: see declaration of 'QString'
ThumbnailProvider.cpp(140): error C2039: 'toWinHBITMAP': is not a member of 'QPixmap'
C:\Qt\5.12.3\msvc2017_64\include\QtGui/qbrush.h(58): note: see declaration of 'QPixmap'
ThumbnailProvider.cpp(140): error C2039: 'Alpha': is not a member of 'QPixmap'
C:\Qt\5.12.3\msvc2017_64\include\QtGui/qbrush.h(58): note: see declaration of 'QPixmap'
ThumbnailProvider.cpp(140): error C2065: 'Alpha': undeclared identifier