BPGUI: Windows and Deployment
Today, I worked on getting the Bus Pirate GUI to build on windows using Visual C++ 2008. There were some problems with how my Message Event Handling/Filtering was written and I had to go back and rewrite major parts of it to get it to compile under Windows. Mac OS X builds require Qt4.5, ZLib, and LibPNG to be bundled with the Executable, which means copying and setting the app to look within itself for Qt4 and other libraries. It’s pretty difficult to get it done, but luckily there’s a handy command that does everything, it even creates a package image. The only downside is it can’t add dynamic libraries that are part of the project tree. Since getting things working in Windows and Mac, I decided to release preview packages for Windows and Mac OS X. They’ve been uploaded to the Bus Pirate’s Google Code Site. If you run into any problems, I’m sorry and would love the feedback.
