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itimpi · 03-15-2009, 04:05 AM

Part of the reason one tends to need to build Qt from source is that Calibre now assumes any C components are built using Visual C++ 2008 (which uses msvc10). Many of the binary installs will not make this assumption.

I built myself a Windows development environment some months ago, and quite a few issues came up which resulted in updates to the wiki article. I did it using VMWare to avoid polluting my normal production PC with lots of development tools. Over the next few days I will try setting up a Windows development environment from scratch again and update the instructions with anything that comes up.

03-15-2009, 04:05 AM	#7
itimpi Wizard Posts: 4,553 Karma: 950151 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: Sony PRS-950, iphone/ipad (Marvin/iBooks/QuickReader)	Part of the reason one tends to need to build Qt from source is that Calibre now assumes any C components are built using Visual C++ 2008 (which uses msvc10). Many of the binary installs will not make this assumption. I built myself a Windows development environment some months ago, and quite a few issues came up which resulted in updates to the wiki article. I did it using VMWare to avoid polluting my normal production PC with lots of development tools. Over the next few days I will try setting up a Windows development environment from scratch again and update the instructions with anything that comes up.