source: trunk/README.OS2@ 496

This is Beta 5 of Qt version 4.5.1 for OS/2 and eCS.

This document contains a brief information on the OS/2 version of the Qt
library. Please visit the project page at

  http://svn.netlabs.org/qt4/wiki

to get more information and the latest news and also to report bugs.

To get a brief list of OS/2-specific changes from release to release
please see the CHANGES.OS2 file included in this distribution.



REQUIREMENTS

In order to compile the Qt library and Qt-based applications, you will need
the following tools:

  - One of the OS/2 Warp 4, OS/2 Warp 4.5 or eComStation operating systems.

  - InnoTek GCC compiler version 3.3.5 CSD3 or above (not tested).
    You can download a copy of the compiler using the following link:

      ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/GCC-3.3.5-csd3.zip

  - Patched OpenWatcom linker which you can download from here:

      ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/wl-hll-r1.zip

    Note that if you use IBM ILINK (no matter what version), you will
    not be able to build the debug version of the library due to
    bugs/limitations of ILINK.

  - GNU Make 3.81beta1 or above (not tested) available at:

      http://unix.os2site.com/pub/binary/make/make-3_81beta1-bin-static.zip

  - LxLite 1.3.3 or above (not tested) if you want Qt DLLs and application
    executables to be compressed (to save hard disk space and load time). If
    you have a recent eComStation installation (e.g. 2.0 rc6) you will already
    have LxLite installed. Otherwise, you may take it from here:

      http://www.os2site.com/sw/util/archiver/lxlt133.zip



SETTING UP THE ENVIRONMENT

After unpacking the GCC archive, you will have to set up the compiler
environment by invoking gccenv.cmd from the bin subdirectory with the correct
arguments (type gccenv.cmd -? for help). For the OpenWatcom linker, specify
WLINK as the second argument.

You will also need to perform the following steps:

  - Make sure the selected linker, the make utility and LxLite executable are
    in PATH.

  - Make sure CMD.EXE is your command line processor (the generated makefiles
    will rely on its 'copy', 'if' and other commands). If you have a Unix shell
    (SH.EXE) in your environment, you may need to force GNU make to use CMD.EXE
    by doing 'set MAKESHELL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE' where C: is your boot drive.

  - set LIBRARY_PATH=C:\OS2\DLL;C:\MPTN\DLL where C: is your boot drive.

  - Make sure that there are no traces of any other Watcom or OpenWatcom
    installation in the environment where you build Qt as it will most likely
    interfere with the patched OpenWatcom linker we use. This basically means
    removing all *WATCOM* environment variables and removing references to those
    Watcom installations from PATH.

Note that the QTDIR environment variable used by previous Qt versions is not
used by Qt4 anymore (except two rare cases that do not affect the OS/2 platform
anyway and are probably leftovers after the migration of the qmake feature
specifications to Qt4). Therefore, there is no need to set this variable
explicitly. See also a note below about hard-coded paths to the source tree.

There is also no need to set the QMAKESPEC variable explicitly. If it is absent,
qmake will use the specification stored in the <Qt4_Home>/mkspecs/default
directory, which on OS/2 always refers to the "os2-g++" specification, the only
one supported at the present time.



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