[Qgis-developer] Qwt now required?

[Dave Johansen]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Charlie Sharpsteen <chuck at sharpsteen.net>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm using QGIS 1.5 embedded in a Qt application and I currently don't have
>> Qwt installed on the system. I just download QGIS 1.7 and tried building it
>> on my system, but it complained about QWT not being found. I read through
>> the release announcements from 1.6 and 1.7 and neither of them mentioned
>> that QWT was now required, but was that fact inadvertently left out?
>> Thanks,
>> Dave
>
>
> I believe this may be a bug with the 1.7 Windows build. When I do the
> following on Windows 7:
>
>     Start Menu -> Quantum GIS Wroclaw -> Quantum GIS (1.7.0)
>
> QGIS starts up fine. If I then pin QGIS to my taskbar and try to start it
> by clicking on the icon, I get an error message:
>
>     "The program can't start because qwt5.dll is missing from your
>  computer."
>
> So, try starting QGIS through the Start Menu and see if it makes a
> difference.
>
> -Charlie
>

Sorry I forgot to mention this in the original email, but I'm actually
building from source on RHEL 5.5, and I'm running into the issue when trying
to configure the build process with ccmake during the initial setup.

Dave
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