Re: Aw: GUi won't start

[John W. Eaton]

On 10/11/2013 02:41 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:

> For MinGW I see that we now also need (according to
> http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingQtOnWindows):
>
> - ActiveState Perl
> - Python2.x
> - Ruby
>
> (+ their implicit dependencies)
> which may add a few complications to MXE.
> Maybe the Linux variants of these dependencies can be used for
> cross-compiling with MXE.

There's also another option, and that's to not use webkit.  I made an 
apparently bad assumption about it already being built for mingw.

It is currently only used in the new "community news" window to display 
an html file.  It's not absolutely necessary that the community news 
window be an actual web browser.  I just thought using QWebView was the 
easy thing to do.

But now that I see that things like QLabel can display HTML and open 
external links, then maybe there is a simpler way.  If we use QLabel or 
QTextBrowser instead, then any links in the community news text will 
open in an external browser, but that's probably OK.

So before you do too much work trying to get webkit to build with mxe, 
let's experiment with these other options first.

jwe