[Gambas-user] Port to Qt C++

[Rob]

On Monday 01 November 2004 11:37, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> Gambas uses the Qt library, right?  Is it possible to port my
> Gambas project to Qt and recompile it with GCC?  My project is
> finished and I used the option in the Gambas IDE to make it
> into an executable, but the executable won't run unless Gambas
> is installed.  I want it to be able to run with only the
> executable file and not need the Gambas environment to support
> it.  Is this possible?

It should in theory be possible to build a statically linked 
version of gbx (statically linked with the component files, not 
with all the libraries they depend on unless you want a 100mb 
executable...) and attach a compiled project to it somehow, but 
as far as I know no one's tried this yet.  And naturally, 
nothing's stopping you from porting your gambas project to 
C++/Qt, but this will be as arduous as porting from any other OO 
language to C++, more or less.  You also aren't using the raw Qt 
interface in gambas, so your code will become somewhat more 
complex in C++.

I would like to see the former solution come to exist, but I 
don't know how to go about doing it myself.

Rob