Programming Reference:Building Qt for BCI2000 (obsolete)

This document describes how to build Qt for installation in the BCI2000 source tree.

Note: Following this procedure is only required if you are a member of the BCI2000 team, and if your task is to update the Qt build coming with BCI2000. In case you just want to build BCI2000 against a version of Qt outside the source tree, modify the file BCI2000/build/cmake/FindQt.cmake, line 10, to read SET( USE_STD_QT TRUE ), and re-run CMake.

Copy Qt include files to the BCI2000 directory

• Download and install Qt on your machine.
• Copy the contents of the directory qt/include/Qt into BCI2000/src/extlib/qt/include/Qt, omitting the private directory.
• Likewise, copy the QtCore, QtGui, and QtOpenGL include directories to BCI2000/src/extlib/qt/include, omitting the respective private directories.

Build and copy MSVC libraries and auxiliary files

• In the file qt/mkspecs/win32-msvc2008/qmake.conf, add -Fd$(DESTDIR)$(QMAKE_TARGET).pdb as a compiler option to QMAKE_CFLAGS_DEBUG.
• From the Qt installation's qt directory, run configure with the following options:

-platform win32-msvc2008 
-static 
-no-sql-sqlite
-no-qt3support 
-fast 
-qt-zlib
-qt-gif 
-qt-libpng 
-qt-libmng 
-no-libtiff 
-no-libjpeg 
-no-phonon 
-no-webkit 
-no-scripttools 
-no-style-plastique 
-no-style-motif 
-no-style-cde 

• When prompted for the type of license, choose "Open Source", and answer "yes" when asked whether you accept the terms of the license.
• Open the VS2008 console window from the start menu, and run nmake in the following directories:
  • qt/src/corelib,
  • qt/src/gui,
  • qt/src/winmain,
  • qt/src/opengl.
• Copy the following files from qt/bin to BCI2000/src/extlib/qt/msvc/bin:

findtr
idc.exe
moc.exe
qmake.exe
qt.conf
rcc.exe
syncqt
uic.exe

• From qt/lib, copy the following files to BCI2000/src/extlib/qt/msvc/lib:

QtCore.lib
QtCored.lib
QtCored.pdb
QtGui.lib
QtGuid.lib
QtGuid.pdb
qtmain.lib
qtmaind.lib
qtmaind.pdb
QtOpenGL.lib
QtOpenGLd.lib
QtOpenGLd.pdb

• From qt/mkspecs, copy the file qconfig.pri, and recursively copy the contents of the features directory and all the win32-msvc* directories to BCI2000/src/extlib/qt/msvc/mkspecs.
• In BCI2000/src/extlib/qt/msvc/mkspecs/win32-msvc2008/qmake.conf, remove the -Fd$(DESTDIR)$(QMAKE_TARGET).pdb compiler option from QMAKE_CFLAGS_DEBUG.

Build and copy mingw libraries and auxiliary files

• From the Qt installation's qt directory, run configure with the following options:

-platform win32-g++
-static 
-no-sql-sqlite
-no-qt3support 
-fast 
-qt-zlib
-qt-gif 
-qt-libpng 
-qt-libmng 
-no-libtiff 
-no-libjpeg 
-no-phonon 
-no-webkit 
-no-scripttools 
-no-style-plastique 
-no-style-motif 
-no-style-cde 

• When prompted for the type of license, choose "Open Source", and answer "yes" when asked whether you accept the terms of the license.
• Open a console window, and run mingw32-make in the following directories:
  • qt/src/corelib,
  • qt/src/gui,
  • qt/src/winmain,
  • qt/src/opengl.
• When the build is finished, copy the following files from qt/bin to BCI2000/src/extlib/qt/mingw/bin:

findtr
idc.exe
moc.exe
qmake.exe
qt.conf
rcc.exe
syncqt
uic.exe

• From qt/lib, copy the following files to BCI2000/src/extlib/qt/mingw/lib:

libQtCore.a
libQtCored.a
libQtGui.a
libQtGuid.a
libqtmain.a
libqtmaind.a
libQtOpenGL.a
libQtOpenGLd.a

• From qt/mkspecs, copy the file qconfig.pri, and recursively copy the contents of directories features, common, and win32-g++ to BCI2000/src/extlib/qt/mingw/mkspecs.

See also

Programming Reference:Build System