[CMake] How do you go about building the cmake-gui from source in 2.8.4?

[Dick Munroe]

One other thing is that the SDK for QT4 specifically installs a version 
supposedly built with and for VS 2005.

Best,

Dick Munroe

On 5/14/11 9:49 AM, cmake-request at cmake.org wrote:
> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 16:42:45 -0400
> From: John Drescher<drescherjm at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CMake] How do you go about building the cmake-gui from
> 	source	in 2.8.4?
> To: Dick Munroe<munroe at csworks.com>
> Cc:cmake at cmake.org
> Message-ID:<BANLkTikKyM8fRYR2a6tEgKQfAFcoGnsmnQ at mail.gmail.com>
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>
>> >  Yeah, I figured that part out indirectly.
>> >
>> >  I had to install the QT4 SDK to get the necessary bits, but rcc.exe (Windows
>> >  XP, desktop component of QT) fails for no obvious reason.
>> >
> Did you build that from scratch using Visual Studio 2005 and not any
> other compiler or version?
>
>> >
>> >  Here is what I posted on the QT installation/deployment forum about the
>> >  problem:
>> >
>> >  I?m trying to rebuild CMake-gui.
> Are you trying to modify it for some reason? I also do not see the
> need to rebuild it.
>
>> >  I?ve gotten to the point where I downloaded
>> >  and installed the QT4 SDK, configured CMake for VS 2005 and fired up the
>> >  build, which failed when trying to run rcc.exe. When I try to run RCC.EXE
>> >  directly from the command prompt, I get:
>> >
>> >  The system cannot execute the specified program.
>> >
>> >  When I try it from cygwin?s command prompt, I get:
>> >
> You should not mix cygwin building and visual studio building. What
> are you doing here?
>
>> >  Permission Denied
>> >
>> >  Firing up Dependency Walker, I get an error when opening rcc.exe:
>> >
>> >  The side-by-side configuration information for
>> >  ??desktop\qt\4.7.3\msvc2005\bin\RCC.EXE? contains errors. This application
>> >  has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect.
>> >  Reinstalling the application may fix this problem (14001).
>> >
> This usually means you do not have the correct run times installed.
> Did you download the Visual Studio 2008 binary release. That will not
> work with Visual Studio 2005. You need to build Qt for your compiler.
>
>> >  Which I tried with no joy.
>> >
>> >  There are a couple of delay loaded dlls that aren?t present, IESHIMS and
>> >  WER, but these appear to be more or less specific to Vista and don?t apply
>> >  to XP (which is what I?m running on).
>> >
>> >  So how do I get around this? Is this an SDK problem? or something really
>> >  obscure in Windoze? I?m not primarily a Windows person so I?m not 100% on
>> >  all the ins and outs here, but I would think that the RCC.EXE as installed
>> >  by the QT4 SDK installer should at least start on XP.
>> >
>> >  Any and all hints will be appreciated.
>> >
>> >  Best,
>> >
>> >  Dick Munroe
>> >
>> >  Any clues?
>> >