Phonon module question -- help needed

[swamyonline]

hi ,
this is almost the repeat post of phonon module question. how can i get phonon enabled and use it in applications with qt-4.5.1-mingw-windows.exe version? is it compulsory to compile sources of qt to active phonon? thanks in advance. bye

[roxton]

Please read this: http://wiki.qtcentre.org/index.php?t...ws_using_MinGW
But, you also need a GCC-adapted dvdmedia.h file from the Strawberry Perl (strawberryperl.com) package. Copy this dvdmedia.h into the include dir of MinGW, and recompile Phonon and backend.
Another way - you can recomile the whole Qt with Visual Studio C++.

[FS Lover]

Another way - you can recomile the whole Qt with Visual Studio C++.

can I then compile my qt progs with mingw?

[wysota]

No, you need to stick with one compiler.

[FS Lover]

I prefer mingw. Its simple and my way. its free software. universal. cross platform (a thing qt is/claims to be). I am a free software lover (hence the username FS Lover). I like independence too.
I will try to compile phonon with mingw.
but I haven't high speed internet connection in home. tommorow I will download kdewin32 package at work.
but I have a question in advance. that wiki article says 'Copy the file comdef.h from kdewin32/include/mingw into kdewin32/include/directx'.
so where is the kdewin32/include/directx on my system? should I install anything before?

[Lykurg]

so where is the kdewin32/include/directx on my system? should I install anything before?

It's inside the kdewin package you first have to download.

[FS Lover]

this link: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/kdewin32/
does not work and I couldn't find any other download link.
can anybody help me please?

another question: why is dvdmedia.h from strawberry perl needed? its not mentioned in the wiki article.

I found http://windows.kde.org/download.php. is that ok?
additionally it seems that overal download will be huge (see http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE...s_and_contents). I have a 256Kb connection.
is there any way for downloading only those components necessary for compiling phonon?

apparently kdewin32 installer has a package selection for download, but I don't know which packages should I choose. also there is a binary, a devel, and a src selection option for each package; which ones should I select?

oh no, it has too many options!! too many packages. too many bytes. it huge!
please help me! help...

[wysota]

Please edit your posts instead of replying to your own posts.

[Lykurg]

this link: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/kdewin32/
does not work and I couldn't find any other download link.
can anybody help me please?

It's http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/kdewin/

[FS Lover]

now I have these files downloaded:

29,114 config.txt
462,460,792 dxsdk_apr2007.exe
475,844 OggDS0995.exe
54 expat-2.0.1-bin.zip.md5
66,829 expat-2.0.1-bin.zip
65 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-bin.tar.bz2.md5
384,131 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-bin.tar.bz2
65 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-lib.tar.bz2.md5
147,308 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-lib.tar.bz2
65 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-src.tar.bz2.md5
566,452 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-src.tar.bz2
65 dbus-mingw-1.2.4-1-bin.tar.bz2.md5
1,170,713 dbus-mingw-1.2.4-1-bin.tar.bz2
63 qt-mingw-4.4.3-3-bin.tar.bz2.md5
16,037,341 qt-mingw-4.4.3-3-bin.tar.bz2
60 runtime-mingw-1.0-bin.zip.md5
3,604 runtime-mingw-1.0-bin.zip
827 kdewin-installer.log

29,114 config.txt
462,460,792 dxsdk_apr2007.exe
475,844 OggDS0995.exe
54 expat-2.0.1-bin.zip.md5
66,829 expat-2.0.1-bin.zip
65 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-bin.tar.bz2.md5
384,131 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-bin.tar.bz2
65 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-lib.tar.bz2.md5
147,308 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-lib.tar.bz2
65 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-src.tar.bz2.md5
566,452 phonon-mingw-4.3.0-src.tar.bz2
65 dbus-mingw-1.2.4-1-bin.tar.bz2.md5
1,170,713 dbus-mingw-1.2.4-1-bin.tar.bz2
63 qt-mingw-4.4.3-3-bin.tar.bz2.md5
16,037,341 qt-mingw-4.4.3-3-bin.tar.bz2
60 runtime-mingw-1.0-bin.zip.md5
3,604 runtime-mingw-1.0-bin.zip
827 kdewin-installer.log

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are they sufficient?
any help please?
have I to install with kde installer first?

[FS Lover]

wiki: Make sure your Qt is configured with -phonon -phonon-backend.
how?

[wysota]

wiki: Make sure your Qt is configured with -phonon -phonon-backend.
how?

Pass those switches to configure

[FS Lover]

I am downloding. I chose only some packages that I thought are relevant to phonon. some have clear names (phonon*).
microsoft directx sdk alone is about 452MB and its download is in progress now.
in the installer program there were some options such as mingw or msvc type that I chose mingw version. I think these can cause mistakes buy less powerful users.
they don't certainly know which type and packages should they download.
I think a step by step tutorial with exactly those minimal resources required for compiling phonon is a must.

BTW I think I found another repository for kdewin32 files by looking at some ini file of the kdewin32 installer program, so I insert that link here so that if someone some day find this topic probably there is some useful info for him:
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/kde/stable/4.2.3/win32/

[benlau]

I am quite confused about the instruction now..

1. In fact, what is phonond.dll ? I think the correct name for DS9 background is phonon_ds9.dll , and the dll of phonon is phonond.dll . I have searched "phonond" in the source tree of qt 4.5.2 , but could only found the target of phonon_ds9

2. Do I need to build kdewin32?

3. Do I need to recompile the whole QT 4.5.2? Or I need to build the DS9 backend only?