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Building Qt with OpenSSL support using the Windows SDK

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Install perl (needed for building OpenSSL). Follow OpenSSL instructions to build and install (README.W32 or README.W64, use the masm target). I installed OpenSSL into the same prefix that I’m using for Qt. Copy the Qt mkspeks directory to the Qt prefix directory. Run configure, something like: ./configure -release -no-qt3support -prefix C:\qt\4.5.2 -qt-libjpeg -qt-libpng -openssl -I [...]

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Postbox – a better Thunderbird

Friday, March 13, 2009

I got fed up with Outlook today at work. Gmail spoils me. I think the conversation view is fantastic. Luckily, our IT enables IMAP on our Exchange servers so I’m able to use whatever email client fits me. My Google search for “cross platform email client” led me to Postbox. So far, it’s the first [...]

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Embedded manifests in Windows 7

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Getting “invalid windows image” when trying to use mt.exe on Windows 7? The likely cause is an issue with embedding a manifest resource before an existing resource section is present. This is documented in section 5.3.6 of the Windows 7 SDK release notes.

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