[avahi] avahi Digest, Vol 124, Issue 1

[Jonathan Bagg]

On 15-10-14 05:52 AM, Trent Lloyd wrote:
>
>> On 11 Oct 2015, at 4:48 AM, Michael Jones <avahi at jonesmz.com 
>> <mailto:avahi at jonesmz.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Trent
>>
>>     I had a look at avahi-qt in 0.6.32-rc and it looks like there is
>>     still no QT5 support.  I found this patch for QT5 support...
>>
>>     http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2014-October/002305.html
>>
>>     If I pass an AvahiPoll from avahi_qt_poll_get() to
>>     avahi_client_new() the program will segfault with Qt5 (Qt4 works
>>     fine).  I have a Qt class that wraps avahi-client.  In order to
>>     get it to work with Qt5, I need to distribute a modified avahi-qt.
>>
>>     Jon
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm the author of that Qt 5 patch.
>>
>> I'd be happy to lend assistance to getting it integrated into an 
>> upcoming Avahi release. I wasn't able to post it to the avahi bug 
>> tracker, since the Trac instance wasn't accepting new registrations 
>> for quite a while.
>>
>> Saying this without looking at the full changelist for Avahi, I'd say 
>> that it's pretty likely to apply cleanly to the new version. It was 
>> minimally invasive.
>>
>> Please contact me if assistance is desired.
>
> It does apply fine, had to make a slight tweak to set -fPIC.
>
> Is there a project somewhere that compiles against this? In any case I 
> think we should make an example/test app as we don’t have one at all 
> for QT right now.
>
> Converted into pull request here:
> https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/pull/19
I pulled this and tried compiling avahi

./configure --disable-qt3 --disable-gtk --disable-gtk3 --disable-mono 
--disable-manpages --disable-glib --disable-gobject
make

make[2]: *** No rule to make target `avahi-qt5.pc', needed by `all-am'.  
Stop.

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