[QScintilla] qscintilla QT designer plugin

[Rubi Mazaki]

I'v installed QT clean twice, just for the sake of testing QScintilla..
Maybe it's QT problem or Windows 7 but it seems I was ok with the steps I
took.
1. I used QT's cmd shortcut for setting the environment and followed the
instructions on the QScintilla\ ...\QT4\html\index.htm page.
   With the exception of using "mingw32-make.exe" but "make.exe" (no
make.exe on my computer)
2. After following the make + install of both QT4 and designer4, with
warnings but no errors, I opened QT (4) and found that the plugin was not
installed!
3. After looking around I saw there was no qscintillaplugin.pluginspec file
anywhere, I even tried to moc one (copy pasted another and tried to fix it
for scintilla) but then QT poped out message that it awaits for an msvc
build of the plugin. I didn't give up and setup Visual Studio 2005 + sp1 and
updates .. (thinking about it I wasted some effort here :). tried to compile
with nmake, but since QT4 that is available on QT's site is a mingw build,
it could not link to scintilla. At that point I understand that

Scintilla is only for visual studio build of QT. not the main QT4 trunk.
so.. is there a QScintilla for the normal QT4? (which later be compatible to
mingw on other OS's?)

I hope there's a positive answer to this (or at least more positive than it
looks now...)

rubi



On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Phil Thompson
<phil at riverbankcomputing.com>wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:05:11 +0200, Rubi Mazaki <rubimazaki at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am trying for some time now to install QScintilla plugin on QT 2010.05
> > windows open source.
> > I followed the instructions and built / intalled both QT4 / designer
> builds
> > without any special errors, only a few warnings using MINGW.
> > Now after I started QT the plugin was simply not found, so I made the
> > following step and copied the qscintillaplugin.dll to the designer
> folder
> > manually and even created qscintillaplugin.pluginspec file for it on the
> > plugins folder (under a separate folder).
> > Now QT says on load: that it expects an msvc build, so searching around
> I
> > found that I should change the registration values for the plugin so it
> is
> > msvc (and not mingw).
> > Now QT says: "the shared library was not found".
> >
> > Now, compiling with msvc 2005 (after setting environment variables
> right)
> > was successfull, yet linking failed, maybe because the standard QT
> download
> > 2010.4/5 is mingw and not msvc.
> >
> > So, now I am stuck, from my previous experience with scintilla on MFC it
> > was
> > a great tool, but it seems it still has a way to make to be available
> under
> > QT...
> >
> > I would appreciate anyone's help.
>
> It's unlikely to be a QScintilla problem. From your description it's
> impossible to guess what state your Qt installation is now in.
>
> Phil
>
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