{"id":43,"date":"2011-06-20T22:54:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T20:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tom.paschenda.org\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2011-10-16T18:39:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T16:39:25","slug":"getting-qt-and-ruby-qtruby-running-on-windows-7-and-windows-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.paschenda.org\/blog\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Getting Qt and Ruby (=QtRuby) running on Windows 7 (and Windows XP)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 2011-10-16: <\/strong>
\nFollowing a very-well written post on stackoverflow<\/a>, getting QT and Ruby running on Windows 7 is quite easy nowadays.<\/p>\n

Quote from http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/7577248\/how-can-i-get-qt4-running-with-ruby-1-9-2-on-windows-7<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The following steps work on Windows 7:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Install Ruby 1.9.2 via the official download page<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. In a Windows shell, run gem install qtbindings<\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The trivial example (require 'rubygems'; require 'Qt'<\/code>) should now work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Hence the tutorial below is now obsolete. However, I will keep it here for reference purposes.<\/p>\n

    \u2014\u2014OUTDATED TUTORIAL\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n

    This is an update on a previous tutorial<\/a> which explained how to write Ruby applications using Qt on Windows XP. This new version is dealing with Ruby applications using Qt on Windows 7 (but it should also work in Windows XP). Also, it uses Qt 4.6.1 instead of Qt 4.3.4 and it also brings a newer version of QtRuby (2.1.0).<\/p>\n

    \u2014\u2014RANT MODE: ON\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n

    Believe it or not: In some QtRuby application I wrote some time ago, somebody discovered a “hidden feature” (let’s not use the b-word here). To remove this “feature” I had to re-install my development environment since in the meantime I got a new laptop (really fancy one with SSD and all, I like it).<\/p>\n

    Three years ago, getting QtRuby running on Windows was so complicated that it was worth a lengthy\u00a0 tutorial.
    \nBut now it’s 2011. Should be much better now, right?
    \nTurns out, in June 2011 it is so complicated, that dr1ku wrote an     even longer tutorial<\/a>\u00a0 (no bashing indented, his article is really exhaustive with a lot of insight and information).
    \nToday it is my turn again. Luckily I found a solution that is reasonably simple, but still requires some not-too-obvious steps (at least for a ruby-noob like myself).<\/p>\n

    So. Here we go again. I wonder what it will be like in 2014.
    \nOh wait, the end of the world is scheduled for 2012. Phew, that will save us some trouble.<\/p>\n

    \u2014\u2014RANT MODE: OFF\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n

    As in the previous installment of this guide<\/a>, I did not use the latest versions of Ruby\/Qt\/QtRuby, because they simply don’t work together (as dr1ku points out in his post mentioned above). I will assume that Ruby is not yet installed on your system.<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Download and install Ruby 1.8.7-p334.
      \nMake sure to use the RubyInstaller version. You can find it at       rubyforge<\/a>.During installation, make sure to add ruby to your path.
      \nVerify the installation by opening a command line and type ruby --version<\/code>. It should yield:
      \nruby 1.8.7 (2011-02-18 patchlevel 334) [i386-mingw32]<\/code><\/li>\n
    2. Update gems to the latest version by typing
      \ngem update --system<\/code><\/li>\n
    3. Install rake (which is a prerequisite for QtRuby)
      \ngem install rake<\/code><\/li>\n
    4. Install DevKit (which is a prerequisite for QtRuby)
      \nFollow the instructions found       here<\/a>.
      \nDon’t panic: The instruction looks lengthy, but most of the steps are optional or for updating legacy versions of DevKit.<\/li>\n
    5. Finally install QtRuby gem. On the command line type
      \ngem install qtruby4 --remote --platform=mswin32<\/code>
      \nThe --platform=mswin32<\/code> is required to override the platform check of gems.<\/li>\n
    6. Verify the installation by opening a command line and type irb<\/code> (an interactive ruby interpreter)
      \nType require 'rubygems'<\/code> and hit enter. It should yield true<\/code>.
      \nNow type require 'Qt'<\/code> which should also yield true<\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Well, that’s it. For getting-started instructions and some more information, please visit the previous installment of this guide<\/a>\u00a0 and start reading after “That’s it!”<\/p>\n

      \u2014\u2014RANT MODE: ON\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n

      Where was I? Oh right, that “hidden feature” is still hiding…<\/p>\n

      \u2014\u2014RANT MODE: OFF\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Update 2011-10-16: Following a very-well written post on stackoverflow, getting QT and Ruby running on Windows 7 is quite easy nowadays. Quote from http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/7577248\/how-can-i-get-qt4-running-with-ruby-1-9-2-on-windows-7: The following steps work on Windows 7: Install Ruby 1.9.2 via the official download page. In a Windows shell, run gem install qtbindings. The trivial example (require ‘rubygems’; require ‘Qt’) should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ruby","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.paschenda.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.paschenda.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.paschenda.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.paschenda.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.paschenda.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom.paschenda.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.paschenda.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.paschenda.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.paschenda.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}