During the process of installing Qt, it gives one the option to use the existing MinGW, or install one from the package. During my second attempt, I opted to have the installer provide MinGW. It downloaded a copy from trolltech (the Qt maker) and installed over my existing copy of minGW (I have no clue if this has broken it yet; I haven’t used it since). The installer completed, and the Qt (technically pronounced “Cute”, but I still say “Queue – Tee”) demo app ran correctly. A quick test later and I had verified it working in ruby as well,<\/p>\n
Qt on Mac<\/h2>\n
Installing Qt on the Mac is a tad bit different, both harder and easier. I primarily followed this guide<\/a>, but I had a few issues which will be documented here. Note that the guide was made for Os X 10.4 Tiger. The Ruby included in that version of the OS was broken, so the first step in the guide is installing a later version of Ruby and disabling the one that comes by default on the system. This is not<\/strong> necessary for 10.5 Leopard.<\/p>\n The first thing one needs to do is download Qt<\/a> and install it. I downloaded the Qt 4.5, LGPL\/Free, Framework Only. After that you need to download Mac Ports<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you aren’t aware, OS X is based off of BSD. Rather than using the Red Hat Linux RPM package managing system that most flavors of linux use, BSD used the ports system<\/a>. The ports sytem is basically directory tree off all the applications availible for BSD, organized by category (math, games, etc.). Each application has its own folder, maintained by some person. Inside the folder are pointers to all the files needed to install the program. The person maintaining the folder is responsible for making sure the files are up to date and always compile. Mac Ports is a Mac specific version of the ports sytem. All the programs are maintained to compile and run on OS X. (Fink<\/a> is a similar program that can help you get and install *nix programs).<\/p>\n We will be using Mac Ports to get cmake, a specialized makefile generator that is required to install the qt-ruby bindings<\/a> (which you also need to download). I downloaded qt4-qtruby-2.0.3, the latest version at this time.<\/p>\n Now it is time to install. As per the guide<\/a>:<\/p>\n Install Qt and Mac Ports.<\/p>\n Install cmake from the terminal:<\/p>\n This is where I had to deviate from the guide. When I called :<\/p>\n cmake completed but building failed:<\/p>\ncd<\/span> ~\/Desktop\n<\/strong>sudo port install cmake <\/strong>## CMake is a cool build system<\/pre>\ncmake .\nmake && sudo make install<\/strong><\/pre>\n
[ 38%] Building CXX object smoke\/qtwebkit\/CMakeFiles\/smokeqtwebkit.dir\/smokedata.o<\/span>\n[ 40%] Building CXX object smoke\/qtwebkit\/CMakeFiles\/smokeqtwebkit.dir\/x_1.o<\/span>\ni686-apple-darwin9-g++-4.0.1: \/Users\/Zack\/Desktop\/qt4-qtruby-2.0.3\/smoke\/qtwebkit\/x_1.cpp: No such file or directory\ni686-apple-darwin9-g++-4.0.1: no input files\nmake[2]: *** [smoke\/qtwebkit\/CMakeFiles\/smokeqtwebkit.dir\/x_1.o] Error 1\nmake[1]: *** [smoke\/qtwebkit\/CMakeFiles\/smokeqtwebkit.dir\/all] Error 2\nmake: *** [all] Error 2<\/strong><\/pre>\n
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Qt Ruby Demo<\/p>\n