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This is Qt version 4.6.3 for OS/2 and eCS.

This document contains a brief information on the OS/2 version of the Qt
library. Please read it carefully before starting your work. You may also
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.

Please note that this version is binary incompatible with previous versions of
Qt 4 for OS/2! This is not a behavior of the original Qt library (where versions
with the same major number are usually binary compatible), but it is due to the
fact that we continue to add missing features to the OS/2 version ot Qt and this
cannot be done witout breaking the binary compatibility. On practice, this means
that you need to recompile your applications with the new version of the Qt
library in order to make them work with it.



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.

  - GCC compiler version 4.4.2 for OS/2, patched OpenWatcom linker and
    GNU Make 3.81beta1 or above. The GCC compiler must be set up to use the
    OpenWatcom linker for linking.

    If you do not have a working GCC environment with the above requirements, it
    is recommended to download a ready-to-use GCC 4.2.2 distribution from here:

      ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qt4/gcc-4_4_2-complete-20091205.zip

    This distribution includes all tools necessary to compile and build the Qt
    library from the source code. Just follow the installation instructions
    contained in the README file inside this ZIP archive to set up the GCC
    environment.

    Please note that starting from Qt 4.6.2, support for GCC 3.3.5 and earlier
    versions of the compiler has been dropped and the Qt library will most
    likely not build if you use one of these compilers. Later versions prior to
    GCC 4.4.2 may work but they are not tested and not supported.

  - IBM RC (Resource Compiler) Version 5.00.007 (comes with OS/2 Toolkit 4.5)
    or Version 4.00.011 (comes with eCS 2.0). Other versions may not work
    correctly.

There is also a set of optional tools which are necessary to enable the selected
features of the Qt library. If these tools are missing, the Qt configuration
script (discussed in section "COMPILING QT" below) will automatically disable
the corresponding feature:

  - Perl 5.8.2 or above. This is required if you want to perform a shadow build
    of the Qt library (which is a recommended way to go). Please refer to
    section "COMPILING QT" for more information about shadow builds. Recent
    builds of Perl for OS/2 are available here:

      http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php?page=perl

  - MAPSYM 4.00.000 (Oct 4 2001) to enable generation of symbol (.SYM) files for
    DLLs and executables. This tool comes with OS/2 Toolkit 4.5. Note that other
    versions of this tool may not work correctly.

  - LxLite 1.3.3 or above (not tested) to enable the compression of DLLs and
    executables (which saves hard disk space and application startup time). If
    you use a recent version of eComStation (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

  - CUPS 1.3.11 or later to support printing in Qt. The CUPS libraries are
    available at:

      http://download.smedley.info/cups-1.3.11-os2-20090807.zip

    Linking against eCUPS also requires pthread.lib:

      http://web.os2power.com/download/lib/pthread-20100217-os2.zip

  - OpenSSL 0.9.8o or later to support OpenSSL in Qt. The OpenSSL libraries are
    available at:

      http://bauxite.sakura.ne.jp/tmp/os2/openssl-1.0.0a-os2knix-20100706-runtime.zip
      http://bauxite.sakura.ne.jp/tmp/os2/openssl-1.0.0a-os2knix-20100706-dev.zip

  - MySQL 5.1 or later for the MySQL Qt plugin. The MySQL libraries are
    available at:

      http://download.smedley.info/mysql-5.1.51-os2-20101001.zip

    Note that you will also need the above OpenSSL libraries and pthread.lib to
    be able to use this MySQL build. The MySQL Qt plugin itself will require
    OpenSSL DLLs in your LIBPATH at runtime.

  - PostgersSQL 9.0.1 or later to support the PostgresSQL Qt plugin. The
    PostgresSQL libraries are available at:

      http://download.smedley.info/postgresql-9.0.1-os2-20101108.zip

    Note that you will also need libc064x.dll for this PostgresSQL build:

      http://download.smedley.info/libc064x.zip

    Note that you will also need the above OpenSSL libraries and pthread.lib to
    be able to use this PostgresSQL build. The PostgresSQL Qt plugin itself will
    require OpenSSL DLLs in your LIBPATH at runtime.



SETTING UP THE ENVIRONMENT

First of all, make sure that your GCC environment is set up and meets the
specified requirements. To perform a quick check, you may run the following
command:

  gcc --version && make --version && wl /version

If the setup is done properly, it will print the versions of the key tools
to the console.

The next step is to set up the Qt environment. If you installed the Qt
development libraries from the WPI archive (refer to section "USING OFFICIAL
BINARY QT ARCHIVES" below for more details about existing WPI archives), you
will only need to run the supplied "QtEnv.cmd" script which will do all the
setup job for you. The script is located in the directory where you installed
the developmnent libraries (or in the WPS folder created by the WPI installer).
Execute this script in a command line session to make it ready for building
Qt 4 applications (for example, using the "qmake" command follwed by "make"