[Qgis-user] Debugging QGIS using MSVC

[InterRob]

Hi All,

Thanks Jurgen & Sjur; that helped a bit.

I found the INSTALL.vcproj; it indeed copies the files to my Program Files
folder (after I granted myself access; note the Vista/Windows 7 superuser
system) by some cmake rules. I put the Qt binary folder in my path. Then
still I need to copy some fies by hand; think of gdal, geos, proj, libpq.dll
and some from the GnuWin32 dependencies (as instructed by the PDF manual
dealing with building / compiling QGIS from source).

Anyhow, QGIS.exe now still complains about missing DLLs; currently:
SSLEAY32.dll

Does anyone know what other dependencies are involved?

Thanks in advance for your reply,
Rob

2009/11/11 Sjur Kolberg <Sjur.A.Kolberg at sintef.no>

>  Rob,
>
> I haven't actually built QGIS myself, but in general you need to make all
> necessary dlls available to your .exe file, also for debugging. This means
> in the same folder, or in a folder that's included in your path. Beware that
> these may include both dlls that you compile as a part of the QGIS solution,
> and pre-compiled dlls that you have downloaded in binary form.
>
> It is quite common that multi-project solutions in Visual Studio put their
> binaries in project-specific folders, typically /Debug and /Release at the
> same level as each .vcproj file resides. This leaves it to you to (manually
> or by setting some poist-build events) copy all dlls and .exes into the
> right (common) place.
>
> VS will always ask for executable when you try to debug a dll; naturally
> since a dll needs to be run by an application (.exe file). qgis.exe will be
> the natural choice here, be sure to pick the right of the debug or release
> version.
>
> I tend to create a /bin catalogue (and a /debbin, for debug versions) at
> the solution directory level (where the .sln file is) , and either direct or
> copy the linker output (.dlls and .exes) here.
>
> BTW, I also copy all .lib files to a common /lib folder (/deblib), and the
> .h files to a common /include folder, and make sure that either VS or all
> the projects look in these folders for libraries and include files. This
> seems to be OK in your case, if everyting builds nicely.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Sjur K :-)
>
>
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> *From:* qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *InterRob
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:21 PM
> *To:* qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [Qgis-user] Debugging QGIS using MSVC
>
> Dear list,
>
> It has been quite a struggle to get QGIS to compile on my PC using MS
> Visual Studio 8 (2005). At the moment, it seems like all binaries compile
> correctly, but all in separate folders... Executing QGIS.exe (
> (...)\qgis-1.3.0\build\src\app\debug\qgis.exe) results in a message of
> missing dlls.
>
> How am I supposed to Run / Debug QGIS from MSVC? Pressing the "play"
> button, MSVC asks for which executable file to be used for the debug
> session.
>
> Any help is appreciated. I guess I need some post-linking process that
> copies newly built QGIS files? And some more static Qt binaries.
>
>
> Rob
>
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