This section describes how to install, configure and build the Qt
Toolkit under OS/2.
In order to build the Qt Toolkit Version 3 under OS/2 or eComStation
you need the following tools:
- Compiler: Innotek
GCC 3.3.2 for OS/2 beta 4 updated to CSD1.
Download
and install according to the installation instructions
(usr\doc\GCC-3.2.2\Install.os2).
- Linker: IBM ILINK 3.08, a part of the IBM Visual Age C/C++ 3
distribution updated to version 3.08.
You need only two files,
BIN\ILINK.EXE and DLL\CPPOM30.DLL. If you already
have IBM Visual Age C/C++ installed, you don't need to do anything else.
Otherwise, copy the above two files to some directory.
Note:
A separate distribution of IBM ILINK 5.0 available through the software
subscription will not work, because it has some serious bugs related to
exporting large amounts of symbols.
- Make utility: GNU
Make 3.81beta1. Just unzip the file make.exe to some
directory.
Check that the above tooks work, and then proceed to the following
step.
- Unzip the contents of the Qt for OS/2 distribution archive to some
directory.
- Go to that directory, run the configure.cmd script and
follow on-screen instructions.
You will be prompted to enter
directories where the script will search for the required tools and to
configure the library type you want to build. Note that it is not
necessary to remember a full path to a tool -- you can specify an
upper-level directory or simply a root directory of the drive you have
installed the tools onto.
- Wait until the compilation process is finished.
If the compilation process fails, you can inspect the file
build.log created in the installation directory.
After the Qt library is successfully compiled and built, it is
recommended that you place the qt.cmd script that was generated
in the installation directory to some of the directories listed in your
PATH environment variable and use it as a command line wrapper
to work with the Qt Toolkit: run tutorials and examples, compile your own
programs, etc. The script sets up the environment necessary for the Qt
Toolkit and for all other tools and simply passes all command line
arguments to the command line interpreter. For example, in order to run
the last Qt tutorial application, go to the subdirectory
tutorial\t14 located inside the installation directory and
execute the following command (provided that you have already placed
qt.cmd somewhere in the PATH):
qt.cmd t14.exe
To recompile the tutorial you can type
qt.cmd make