[Telepathy] Building TelepathyQt4 in windows

[Matti Reijonen]

Hi, Siraj, 

Those instructions in http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Windows section Building TelepathyQt4, I did look at them briefly, but I did not
get QtDbus from emerge, but I don't think that part matters, I have working QtDbus anyway,

I'm not cmake expert (Maybe I should ask Mattiku when he's around) I' just didn't understand the instructions for

mkdir build; cd build
cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<desired install location> ..

for making directory build and running cmake in an empty directory, that part got me confused, 
you have to be more clear with dummies like me :)

anyway when I tried running that cmake command in folder that contains the cmakelists.txt
I got bunch of errors saying:

CMake Error at C:/Program Files/CMake 2.6/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/CMakeRCInformation.cmake:6 (GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT):
  get_filename_component called with incorrect number of arguments
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  C:/Program Files/CMake 2.6/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/Platform/Windows-cl.cmake:32 (ENABLE_LANGUAGE)
  C:/Program Files/CMake 2.6/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/CMakeRCInformation.cmake:9 (INCLUDE)
  C:/Program Files/CMake 2.6/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/Platform/Windows-cl.cmake:32 (ENABLE_LANGUAGE)
  C:/Program Files/CMake 2.6/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/CMakeRCInformation.cmake:9 (INCLUDE)
...

After that I just tried the normal way I run cmake:
cmake -G "Visual Studio 9 2008"

got the project files and went along and got it working eventually, 
can you still explain how I should run that cmake -G "NMake Makefiles".. command
Also I don't know about those nmake and jom options on cmake..

And does that fix the issue with having file named debug, because as default msvc is trying to
create debug folder when building debug versions of binaries and that creates a conflict,
because windows does not allow folder and file to have same name in same directory?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Siraj Razick [mailto:siraj.razick at collabora.co.uk]
> Sent: 28. elokuuta 2009 13:18
> To: Matti Reijonen
> Cc: telepathy at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Telepathy] Building TelepathyQt4 in windows
> 
> Hi, Matti,
> 
> Did you try the stuff in :
> http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Windows
> ? specially you might want to check Ian's git repo for qt stuff there,
> but those changes were merged upstream too, and I'm not sure the
> changes
> were tested on windows after merging.
> 
> Regards,
> Siraj
> 
> Matti Reijonen wrote:
> >
> > Not sure if I'm posting this to right place but, but I'll start
> here..
> >
> > I have recently build TelepathyQt4 in windows. The cmake files helped
> > a lot,
> >
> > but there was couple of obstacles in the process. Maybe there's some
> > shortcuts that I don't know about, but anyway, I'll just list main
> > obstacles in my building notes and how I got it to build here:
> >
> > I used the cmake branch dated 2009-04-16, and building in Windows
> > vista with Visual Studio 9 2008..
> >
> > After running cmake, I had to rename file named Debug to Debug_ and
> > changed references in code "#include <TelepathyQt4/Debug>" to
> > "#include <TelepathyQt4/Debug_>"
> >
> > After that the cmake project was almost compiling, there was some
> > compiler errors related to some generated files:
> >
> > cli-account-manager.moc.hpp
> >
> > cli-account.moc.hpp
> >
> > cli-channel.moc.hpp
> >
> > (cli-connection.moc.hpp)
> >
> > I remember copying the right versions of those files from some web
> > page, (probably some versions generated in linux) I think that at
> > first time I did not need to copy the cli-connection.moc.hpp, it was
> > when I was rebuilding all at somepoint..
> >
> > anyway thanks for creators of cmake, I did not need to spend time
> > reading autofiles and figure out how to make those generated files.
> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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