[Gambas-user] Gambas 2 -> Gambas 3

[Ron_1st]

On Tuesday 17 February 2009, richard terry wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:42:09 pm Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> > Benoît Minisini schrieb:
> > >> Good morning Benoit (and everyone)
> > >>
> > >> Just came about a question: When I want to bring my Gambas2 app to
> > >> Gambas3, will this be as roundabout as it is from Gambas1 to Gambas2?
> > >> (Creating new forms and converting the code...) Or is it more upward
> > >> compatible?
> > >>
> > >> The reason for asking this is that you told me that you would just
> > >> maintain bugfixes in Gambas2 and bring changes only to Gambas3. As I'm
> > >> still maintaining some bigger Gambas1 projects, I would then migrate
> > >> them to Gambas3 directly rather than having them under Gambas2 - if it's
> > >> as much work again...
> > >>
> > >> Hope I could make clear what I mean...
> > >>
> > >> Regards
> > >>
> > >> Rolf
> > >
> > > The weirdest thing between Gambas 2 and Gambas 3 at the moment is
> > > Desktop.Scale, that is smaller in Gambas 3.
> > >
> > > Gambas 3 does a little conversion for controls whose W and H <= 3 *
> > > Desktop.Scale (it adds one Desktop.Scale), but you have to update all
> > > your forms and check them one by one to redesign them.
> > >
> > > There are many other changes in instruction syntax and class interfaces,
> > > but I never note them at the moment. Hopefully, they are less changes
> > > between Gambas 3 and Gambas 2 than between Gambas 2 and Gambas 1.
> > >
> > > So please try and tell us the result! :-)
> >
> > LOL - ok, I will. I would. If I could.
> >
> > Downloaded the svn and tried to compile it, it stopps here:
> >
> > /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.2.1/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld:
> > cannot find -lqt-mt
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make[5]: *** [gb.qt.kde.html.la] Fehler 1
> > make[5]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/tester/gambastest/trunk/gb.qt.kde/src/html'
> > make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
> > make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/tester/gambastest/trunk/gb.qt.kde/src'
> > make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
> > make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/tester/gambastest/trunk/gb.qt.kde'
> > make[2]: *** [all] Fehler 2
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tester/gambastest/trunk/gb.qt.kde'
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tester/gambastest/trunk'
> > make: *** [all] Fehler 2

And here I have seen the same problem but without abort.

and be able to do make install and that does also not fail but
gives warnings and the final result does not work.
(after reading log files line by line and looks intermittent yes/no)

# gambas3
Error in form.XXX "Cant find 'Project file'" bla bla

> >
> > Any idea what's wrong here?
> 
> I compile the svn daily, and I had the exact same problem which appeared 
> suddenly a month ago and my previous scripts for compiling gambas3 stopped 
> working, despite the fact that the appropriate libraries seemed to be on my 
> machine, and in theory the pathways were as well.
> 
> Now the sad part.
> 
> After days and days of searching every forum on the internet I found a 
> solution which I can't remember.
> 
> But the potential good news, its contained within my PKGBUILD file which I use 
> to compile the package with, so I've enclosed it. I think..... and not sure, 
> that it was this line:
> 
> make LDFLAGS+=-L/opt/qt/lib
> 
> that I included in the script which made the difference.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> >
> > There is an older Gambas3 on my system which is running ok, should I try
> > with that one? Don't know how "old" it is, but it has a Copyright until
> > 2009 in the help... :-)
> >
> > Rolf

So i'm not the only one that has problems.
No body else did respond except charlie with a log on his system.

ron at ...1311...:~$ locate libqtmc

kubuntu 8.04 LTS (long term support)
/usr/lib/libqtmcop.a
/usr/lib/libqtmcop.la
/usr/lib/libqtmcop.so
/usr/lib/libqtmcop.so.1
/usr/lib/libqtmcop.so.1.0.0




Best regards,

Ron_1st

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