[Qgis-developer] Developing Plugins

[Peter Ersts]

QGis Developers,

I am new to QGis+Qt and would like a little push in the right direction 
regarding developing plugins. I apologize ahead of time, if I have just 
overlooked something that is already on the web.

--Most of the instructions on the wiki are for Linux and the 
pluging-template uses aclocal, automake etc. Is it recommended that 
plugins be developed on Linux? Are there any instructions/hints for 
developing on a Windows box?

--My primary target audience for a plugin would be PC users, but the 
plugin would obviously be usable on all platforms. If a plugin is 
developed under Linux is it just a matter of updating the makefile to 
get the plugin to compile on Windows.

--I have been working with Qt 4.1.2 and the plugin-template is written 
with an older version of Qt, is it recommended that Qt 3.x.x be used? If 
it is possible to develop on Windows, does anyone have a link to a 
download site where I can get Qt 3.x for Windows --- Both Qt3 and Qt4 
are available for Debian.

Thank you in advance,
-pete

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