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Is there any way to get this for free on Windows? If nothing else, maybe a ‘learning’ version or something? Last time I tried, they’d display a nag screen everytime you compiled something. Thanks, but no thanks.
>Is there any way to get this for free on Windows?
No. Only 2.3 which is now has being pulled.
Yes, you can get a port of QT for Windows, or rather a port of QT for Cygwin. Your better off following the Cygwin Setup instructions at http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3/installation.php rather than trying to do a manual install. I use it for simple app development, and it supports QT Designer. But thats the closest youll get to a “Free” Windows version of QT, and it doesnt have the nag screen.
Do I have to run this in KDE? If so, then I might as well just dual boot Linux. The point of trying to find a copy for Windows was to avoid having to run KDE in the first place
No, actually you dont, which is kind of nice. I personally opt for launching XFree86 with Blackbox under Cygwin and do most of my Cygwin stuff from there. But you don’t even really need to do that. You can just run <cygwin host path>usrX11r6instartxwin.bat and it will launch a small instance of X with an xterm and draw directly to the Windows desktop just like you are running a Windows program, you only have to live with the X Icon on your taskbar. There are some other little nuances for compiling QT apps under Cygwin (such as the annoying qt-mt libraries not being found), but these happen under Linux also, and there are numerous articles that tell you how to resolve these for both platforms.
XWin -multiwindow is much better than using blackbox, or any other WM.
This might also be usefull: http://www.iidea.pl/~js/qkw/
If you are doing this for learning, then why do you care about the nag screen?
2.3 has not been completely pulled. It’s not mentioned on the website anymore, but it is still available at:
ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/non-commercial
Of course, it depends on what kind of application you have, but I think 2.3 is still very usable for a lot of applications.
You might also have success using the X-version toghether with libw11, which is a port of the x-windows library to win32 that does not need an x server to run.
For example, the rxvt terminal delivered with cygwin has been built with it.
http://libw11.sourceforge.net/