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Trolltech Released Qt 4.0 (KDE.News)

Trolltech Released Qt 4.0 (KDE.News)

Posted Jul 1, 2005 10:40 UTC (Fri) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
In reply to: Trolltech Released Qt 4.0 (KDE.News) by jd
Parent article: Trolltech Released Qt 4.0 (KDE.News)

That doesn't sound easy at all. Are you a Troll™?

Building KDE on Qt4 to run on Windows will be a matter of weeding out Windows-incompatible Unix-isms, which should(!) all be concentrated in the lowest-level libraries. Reverse-enginering the Windows 'window management DLL' sounds scary :-).

"... a new DLL which provides an IBCS wrapper to translate Linux system calls into Windows system calls ..."

This is what Cygwin tries to do (without the 'IBCS' buzzword). It's a *hard* problem.

In the meantime Cygwin supports many KDE apps. That's about as 'native' as what you're suggesting.


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