Thread: Calibre for windows XP please
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Old 03-15-2015, 03:23 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
The problem is that Qt itself does not support XP (even service pack 3). calibre includes everything it needs to run (no separate Qt install is needed).

Until/unless the Qt developers decide to fix Qt on WinXP, nothing can or will be done. I predict they will do so just as soon as Microsoft re-enables support for WinXP.

For more details, see the thread that exhaustively discussed the issue: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=245069

If you are willing to run from source and try it anyway, instructions are here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...5&postcount=61

(edit this file: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...i2/__init__.py)

Alternatively, depending on the fix you need, see this: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...34#post2976934
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