[Lazarus] lazarus windows and qt

Henry Vermaak henry.vermaak at gmail.com
Tue May 11 18:18:31 CEST 2010


On 11 May 2010 17:15, Martin <lazarus at mfriebe.de> wrote:
> On 11/05/2010 17:11, zeljko wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday 11 May 2010 18:02, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 11 May 2010 16:51, Martin<lazarus at mfriebe.de>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I finally convinced myself to try installing QT, despite the massive
>>>> size, and the huge amount of files that seem mre than just a runtime
>>>> (designer.exe surely is not needed to run lazarus?)
>>>>
>>>> So I got qt 4-6-2 installed from qt-win-opensource-4.6.2-vs2008
>>>>
>>
>> this is wrong ->  qt-win-opensource-4.6.2-vs2008
>> This is correct one:
>> http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-win-opensource-4.6.2-mingw.exe
>>
>
> That was what I did fear the answer would be.....
>
> How does a none tech person use QT on Windows, then => because the above
> installation asks you where youre mingw installation is => So in order to
> use QT, you must first install mingw by hand too.....
>
>
> yes there is the QT-IDE-full-development environment, which supposedly
> contains all of it => but a none tech (or none developer) would not need to
> install a full IDE, just to use an app that needs QT?
>
> So (putting aside that I want to use Lazarus, and I am a developer), If I
> wasn't ... => it would be trouble to use anything that is based on QT... =>
> that can't possible be.
>
> so where is the point I am missing?

That the app that uses QT would distribute all the necessary libs?

Henry




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