Install Qt3 from source on Ubuntu 12.10

[astropunkin]

Hi there,

I am running some software that needs Qt3 to run so I am attempting to install it from source. I downloaded the following source file from the Qt website qt-x11-free-3.3.8.tar.gz. I unpacked it, copied everything into a new directory call qt and did ./configure. That all went fine as far as I could tell. I run into trouble when I run make though. I will copy and paste the output here but its a lot. Any help/advice is appreciated.

make output:
mcbridej@schlock:~/qt$ make
make[1]: Entering directory /afs/cas.unc.edu/users/m/c/mcbridej/qt' cd qmake && make make[2]: Entering directory /afs/cas.unc.edu/users/m/c/mcbridej/qt/qmake'
make[2]: qmake' is up to date. make[2]: Leaving directory /afs/cas.unc.edu/users/m/c/mcbridej/qt/qmake'
cd src/moc && make
make[2]: Entering directory /afs/cas.unc.edu/users/m/c/mcbridej/qt/src/moc' make[2]: Nothing to be done for first'.
make[2]: Leaving directory /afs/cas.unc.edu/users/m/c/mcbridej/qt/src/moc' cd src && make make[2]: Entering directory /afs/cas.unc.edu/users/m/c/mcbridej/qt/src'
g++ -c -pipe -Wall -W -O2 -fPIC -DQT_SHARED -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_NO_CUPS -DQT_NO_NIS -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGE_FILES -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DQT_NO_XINERAMA -DQT_NO_XCURSOR -DQT_NO_XRANDR -DQT_NO_XRENDER -DQT_NO_XFTFREETYPE -DQT_NO_IMAGEIO_MNG -DQT_NO_IMAGEIO_JPEG -DQT_NO_STYLE_MAC -DQT_NO_STYLE_AQUA -DQT_NO_STYLE_INTERLACE -DQT_NO_STYLE_WINDOWSXP -DQT_NO_STYLE_COMPACT -DQT_NO_STYLE_POCKETPC -I/afs/cas.unc.edu/users/m/c/mcbridej/qt/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. -I3rdparty/libpng -I3rdparty/zlib -I../include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I.moc/release-shared/ -o .obj/release-shared/qapplication_x11.o kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp
In file included from ../include/qmap.h:46:0,
from kernel/qmime.h:43,
from kernel/qevent.h:45,
from kernel/qobject.h:45,
from kernel/qwidget.h:43,
from kernel/qdesktopwidget.h:40,
from kernel/qapplication.h:42,
from kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:64:
../include/qvaluelist.h:88:13: error: ‘ptrdiff_t’ does not name a type
../include/qvaluelist.h:164:13: error: ‘ptrdiff_t’ does not name a type
In file included from ../include/qmap.h:46:0,
from kernel/qmime.h:43,
from kernel/qevent.h:45,
from kernel/qobject.h:45,
from kernel/qwidget.h:43,
from kernel/qdesktopwidget.h:40,
from kernel/qapplication.h:42,
from kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:64:
../include/qvaluelist.h:424:13: error: ‘ptrdiff_t’ does not name a type
In file included from kernel/qmime.h:43:0,
from kernel/qevent.h:45,
from kernel/qobject.h:45,
from kernel/qwidget.h:43,
from kernel/qdesktopwidget.h:40,
from kernel/qapplication.h:42,
from kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:64:
../include/qmap.h:107:13: error: ‘ptrdiff_t’ does not name a type
../include/qmap.h:223:13: error: ‘ptrdiff_t’ does not name a type
In file included from kernel/qmime.h:43:0,
from kernel/qevent.h:45,
from kernel/qobject.h:45,
from kernel/qwidget.h:43,
from kernel/qdesktopwidget.h:40,
from kernel/qapplication.h:42,
from kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:64:
../include/qmap.h:604:13: error: ‘ptrdiff_t’ does not name a type
kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp: In function ‘void qt_init_internal(int*, char**, Display*, Qt::HANDLE, Qt::HANDLE)’:
kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:2009:8: warning: ‘KeySym XKeycodeToKeysym(Display*, KeyCode, int)’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:1695) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:2009:62: warning: ‘KeySym XKeycodeToKeysym(Display*, KeyCode, int)’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:1695) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:2039:8: warning: ‘KeySym XKeycodeToKeysym(Display*, KeyCode, int)’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:1695) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:2039:66: warning: ‘KeySym XKeycodeToKeysym(Display*, KeyCode, int)’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:1695) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp: In member function ‘int QApplication::x11ProcessEvent(XEvent*)’:
kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:3690:54: warning: suggest parentheses around ‘&&’ within ‘||’ [-Wparentheses]
kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:3703:54: warning: suggest parentheses around ‘&&’ within ‘||’ [-Wparentheses]
kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp: In member function ‘bool QETWidget::translateMouseEvent(const XEvent*)’:
kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:4119:30: warning: suggest parentheses around ‘&&’ within ‘||’ [-Wparentheses]
kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp: In member function ‘bool QETWidget::translateKeyEventInternal(const XEvent*, int&, QString&, int&, char&, int&, QEvent::Type&, bool)’:
kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:5158:8: warning: suggest explicit braces to avoid ambiguous ‘else’ [-Wparentheses]
kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:5229:52: warning: suggest parentheses around ‘&&’ within ‘||’ [-Wparentheses]
kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:5232:52: warning: suggest parentheses around ‘&&’ within ‘||’ [-Wparentheses]
kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp: In function ‘int isPaintOrScrollDoneEvent(Display*, XEvent*, XPointer)’:
kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:5521:34: warning: suggest parentheses around ‘&&’ within ‘||’ [-Wparentheses]
make[2]: *** [.obj/release-shared/qapplication_x11.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory /afs/cas.unc.edu/users/m/c/mcbridej/qt/src' make[1]: *** [sub-src] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory /afs/cas.unc.edu/users/m/c/mcbridej/qt'
make: *** [init] Error 2

[SGaist]

Hi and welcome to devnet,

What about using qt3-dev-tools from ubuntu ?

You should also consider porting that software to Qt5/4

[astropunkin]

They are apparently not available in 12.10 and I don't have su access. I did not develop this software so it has to be run using qt3.

[SGaist]

Since you have the code, you can port it (and you really should).

Or just use a virtual machine containing an older version of Ubuntu still providing Qt 3. At least 12.04 still does.

[astropunkin]

The system admin for our computers will only run a Virtual Machine for a limited time on that computer. Also the program runs out of memory and harddrive space really quickly because of this program.

I can try porting. Again its not my software, and on their website they say to use Qt3 http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/theli/gui/installation.html

[SGaist]

And the port is not trivial…

In that case, just add

@#include <stddef.h>@

In the files where there's a complaint about ptrdiff_t