[lazarus] Clean build from nothing

[Micha Nelissen]

Michael.VanCanneyt at Wisa.be wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Micha Nelissen wrote:
>
>> Isn't that because of licensing, or am I way off here? You have to
>> link against the borland library because the license says so. You
>> may not link only against the QT libraries.
>
> No no, this is not the issue.
> Borland made some changes to the Qt libraries (bugfixes) to make sure
> it works with Kylix. You can still use a vanilla Qt library, by
> setting an environment variable before application startup.

Wouldn't it be more logical to report those bugs 'upstream'? Ie. I am not
going to distribute my own version of lazarus...but I report bugs here on
the mailinglist (or somewhere).

> From the README:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> It is still possible to link with libqtintf and either the Borland
> supplied libqt or an existing libqt version 2.3.x: In Delphi, this is
> controlled at runtime by defining the environment variable
> CLX_USE_LIBQT, and in C++ by compiling with a compiler define of
> the same name.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the info,

Micha.