I'm currently working on porting the simulation to Windows.
How do I get MinGW and Qt ready?
Thankfully,
Peter Dimov pointed out that Qt comes with MinGW.
I downloaded and installed Qt 4.6.2 (qt-sdk-win-opensource-2010.02.1.exe).
Now Firefox Portable does not work. I downloaded and installed Firefox 3.6.3 (Firefox Setup 3.6.3.exe).
I opened the Qt Command Prompt (start->All Programs->Qt SDK by Nokia v2010.02.1 (open source)->Qt Command Prompt).
I created hello-c++.cpp
#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
cout << "Hello World!" << endl;
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
I created a Makefile
all:
mingw32-g++ hello-c++.cpp
I compiled hello-c++
mingw32-makeSuccess!
I ran hello-c++.exe
Success!
I created hello-qt.cpp
#include <QtGui>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QApplication app(argc, argv);
QWidget window;
window.resize(320, 240);
window.show();
window.setWindowTitle(
QApplication::translate("toplevel", "Top-level widget"));
return app.exec();
}
I compiled a Makefile
qmake -projectqmakeI compiled hello-qt.cpp
mingw32-make releaseI compiled the release version because I only had the release version of Qt.
Success!
I ran hello-qt.exe
Error: The application has failed to start because mingwm10.dll was not found.
I copied Qt\2010.02.1\mingw\bin\mingwm10.dll
Error: This application has failed to start because libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll was not found.
I copied Qt\2010.02.1\mingw\bin\libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
Error: This application has failed to start because QtCore4.dll was not found.
I copied Qt\2010.02.1\bin\QtCore4.dll
Error: The procedure entry point _Z5qFreePv could not be located in the dynamic link library QtCore4.dll.
Thankfully,
Tymek pointed out that I needed to use a different QtCore4.dll file
I copied Qt\2010.02.1\qt\bin\QtCore4.dll
Error: This application has failed to start because QtGui4.dll was not found.
I copied Qt\2010.02.1\qt\bin\QtGui4.dll
Success!
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Notes
After a fair bit of work, I modified Polyworld to work on Windows. I'll post up how I did it soon.
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/compiling.png)
Now all I have to do is figure out some simple ways to avoid the overhead of creating objects that I want to test.
