Problem building Qwt 5.2.0 with MinGW

**jhoyland** · 17th March 2010, 21:17

Hi! I have exactly the same problem compiling Qwt 5.2 on windows with MinGW. I don't quite understand how to actually get the bugfix version mentioned - how do I "svn co https://qwt.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/qwt/branches/qwt-5.2" ? Sorry to be a dope - would really like to try Qwt out it looks like exactly what I'm looking for.

**Uwe** · 18th March 2010, 10:50

svn is the command line interface of Subversion. A hint about using the Subversion repository of Qwt means, that it is already fixed, but there is no release yet.

Uwe

**jhoyland** · 19th March 2010, 11:09

That worked (managed to work out how to use svn from within Netbeans). However I did find one little problem - when I tried to build the designer plugin I got a wierd error about not being able to find binrcc.exe. After much searching I discovered that there is no such thing as binrcc.exe and that the problem lay in the makefiles generated by qmake - the files Makefile.Debug and Makefile.Release generated by qmake both contain the line:

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@echo rcc qwt_designer_plugin.qrc && C:/Qt/2010.02.1/qt/bin\rcc.exe -name

@echo rcc qwt_designer_plugin.qrc && C:/Qt/2010.02.1/qt/bin\rcc.exe -name

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Note the final slash before rcc.exe - this somehow gets misread as binrcc.exe. I edit the two files to switch the '\' for a '/' and the plugin compiled fine. Thanks for your help!