[Scribus] windows port;cygwin

[Peter Linnell]

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 15:24, bart at solozone.com wrote:
> I have cygwin and I got ./configure to go as far as 'freetype' In fact the cgywin repository HAS said freetype and even fontconfig. It has, too, an rpm facility. I am not sure about qt3 though. I guess I could compile that under cygwin.
> Before I frustrate myself completely does anyone have any advice?
bart at solozone.com

Loads :-)

I've done it with pre 0.9 Scribus. I have not tried in a while, tho it
is on the list. 

You will need the complete KDE-Cygwin package installed including the
devel-stuff, all the automagic bits from cygwin *and* the speciallly
patched ld from kde-cygwin. Then, whatever is missing from the compile
docs on scribus.net. It is a long list. 

The newly released KDE-Cygwin Qt packages are build with gcc 3.x and
newer versions of Scribus will not compile easily with 2.95.3.

Try to use the KDE-Cygwin packages first, then use the regular cygwin
packages.

Once you have KDE-Cygwin installed and working, then you are ready to
start trying to compile Scribus.

You may need to explictly point the ./configure script to the qt libs
e.g. ./configure --with-qt-dir= and so on until ./configure is happy.

The Cygwin +KDE-Cygwin + build tools was over 1GB, IIRC.

Other hints/issues:

Printing support is minimal at the moment. 

The Kde-Cygwin team is small but very helpful in answering questions
*provided* you have read through the docs and the mailing lists.

Scribus has trouble finding its plug-ins. So functions which are
plug-ins did not work. This may need some patches to the source code. I
think I know enough about Cygwin and Scribus to help there.

Be patient !

I am on irc on #scribus quite a bit.. that might be where I can answer
questions as you work through the issues.

Good luck and keep us posted please

Peter