Installing Scribus on Win32

Installing from binaries

(Tips: When Cygwin setup brings up the list of sites to select from I find the site ftp.mirror.ac.uk to be reliably fast (but don't take too long selecting pkgs or it will time out!); Also once Cygwin setup has brought to the package selection screen, pull the window wider and click on the [view] button in the top right so that it says "Full", then proceed to select the following packages alphabetically. :) + ghostscript-x11 + jpeg + lcms + libart_lgpl + libpng + libxml2 + psutils + tiff + xorg-X11-base + xorg-X11-fscl + xorg-X11-fsrv
 * Install Cygwin with the following packages:
 * Download qt-x11-free-3.3.3-0.tar.bz2 and save it to the root directory of Cygwin - typically c:\cygwin\.
 * Download scribus-1.2.1.tar.bz2 and save it to the root directory of Cygwin.

Next start cygwin and do the following: cd / tar jxvf scribus-1.2.1.tar.bz2 tar jxvf qt-x11-free-3.3.3-0.tar.bz2 cd ~ Xwin -multiwindow -clipboard & /opt/scribus/1.2/bin/scribus.exe &

Happy Scribing!



This second part deals with compiling QT from source found at the kde-cygwin project.

By posting these instructions here, hopefully others will be encouraged to engage the process of both documenting and applying the documentation to achieve a working recipe for building Scribus 1.3 for Windows.

Instructions for installing QT/X11 from source:

+ autoconf + binutils + byacc + cvs + flex + gcc-g++ + ghostscript-x11 + jpeg + lcms + libart_lgpl + libjpeg6b + libpng + libpng12 + libpng12-devel + libtiff5 + libtiff5-devel + libxml2 + libxml2-devel + make + xorg-X11-base + xorg-X11-devel + xorg-X11-fscl + xorg-X11-fsrv
 * Remove all entries of cygwin from the registry
 * Move previous cygwin install c:\cygwin to c:\cygwin.old
 * Install Cygwin with the following packages:

Obtain source:
 * cd ~/
 * cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/kde-cygwin login
 * cvs -z6 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/kde-cygwin co -r QT_WIN32_3_3_BRANCH qt-3
 * cvs -z6 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/kde-cygwin co -r QT_WIN32_3_3_BRANCH qt-3

Later you can update the sources by
 * cd ~/src/qt-3
 * cvs -z6 update

But for now we'll continue with:
 * cd ~/src/qt-3
 * export QTDIR=$PWD
 * export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
 * export QMAKESPEC=cygwin-g++
 * make -f Makefile.cvs
 * "echo yes | ./configure -platform cygwin-g++ -plugin-imgfmt-mng -qt-zlib -qt-gif -qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -qt-libmng -no-g++-exceptions -thread -no-stl -no-sm -no-xft -no-xkb -no-xrender -disable-opengl -disable-sql -prefix /opt/qt/3.3 -fast"

Compile the sources


 * make (Huge thanks to Ralf and Peter of the kde-cygwin project!!!)

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