ShowEQ and Ubuntu

[Sky_Genie]

So, Showeq was working great on 12.04. I had a brain freeze and clicked on the update button to upgrade to 14. ShowEQ no longer compiles due to a lack of QT3 support from Ubuntu. I tried to use other QT3 packages but managed to bork the entire install.

I then built another machine using 12.04. Managed to install all of the necessary packages (I think), since make Makefile.dist works and ./configure returns a sucess. However, when I try to run make, I receive 2 errors from the point.h file and a number of warnings. I know sure it has something to do with my installation, since it gives the same errors when I make previous versions.

make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/showeq/showeq-5.13.10.26'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/showeq/showeq-5.13.10.26/src'
c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/qt3 -I. -DPKGDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/showeq/\" -I/usr/include/pcap -D_REENTRANT -O2 -Wall -g -ggdb -DDEBUG -finline-functions -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT=1 -DDISPLAY_ICONS=false -DICON_DIR=\"/eq-icons/\" -g -O2 -MT main.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/main.Tpo -c -o main.o main.cpp
In file included from main.cpp:44:
In file included from ./interface.h:33:
In file included from ./spawnlist.h:46:
./seqlistview.h:38:15: warning: 'SEQListView::addColumn' hides overloaded
virtual function [-Woverloaded-virtual]
virtual int addColumn(const QString& label,
^
/usr/include/qt3/qlistview.h:272:17: note: hidden overloaded virtual function
'QListView::addColumn' declared here: type mismatch at 1st parameter
('const QIconSet &' vs 'const QString &')
virtual int addColumn( const QIconSet& iconset, const QString &label...
^
In file included from main.cpp:44:
In file included from ./interface.h:33:
In file included from ./spawnlist.h:47:
In file included from ./spawnlistcommon.h:26:
In file included from ./spawn.h:33:
./point.h:247:10: error: non-const lvalue reference to type 'QPoint' cannot bind
to a temporary of type 'QPoint'
return QPoint((centerPoint.x() - (int)(x() / ratio)),
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
./point.h:254:10: error: non-const lvalue reference to type 'QPoint' cannot bind
to a temporary of type 'QPoint'
return QPoint(int(rint((centerPoint.x() - x()) * ratio)),
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from main.cpp:44:
In file included from ./interface.h:33:
./spawnlist.h:113:9: warning: 'SpawnList::mousePressEvent' hides overloaded
virtual function [-Woverloaded-virtual]
void mousePressEvent (int button, QListViewItem *litem, const QPoint ...
^
/usr/include/qt3/qscrollview.h:222:11: note: hidden overloaded virtual function
'QScrollView::mousePressEvent' declared here: different number of
parameters (1 vs 4)
void mousePressEvent( QMouseEvent * );
^
In file included from main.cpp:44:
In file included from ./interface.h:33:
./spawnlist.h:114:9: warning: 'SpawnList::mouseDoubleClickEvent' hides
overloaded virtual function [-Woverloaded-virtual]
void mouseDoubleClickEvent(QListViewItem *litem);
^
/usr/include/qt3/qscrollview.h:224:11: note: hidden overloaded virtual function
'QScrollView::mouseDoubleClickEvent' declared here: type mismatch at 1st
parameter ('QMouseEvent *' vs 'QListViewItem *')
void mouseDoubleClickEvent( QMouseEvent * );
^
In file included from main.cpp:44:
./interface.h:332:9: warning: 'EQInterface::setDockEnabled' hides overloaded
virtual functions [-Woverloaded-virtual]
void setDockEnabled(QDockWindow* dw, bool enable);
^
/usr/include/qt3/qmainwindow.h:84:18: note: hidden overloaded virtual function
'QMainWindow::setDockEnabled' declared here: type mismatch at 1st
parameter ('Qt:ock' vs 'QDockWindow *')
virtual void setDockEnabled( Dock dock, bool enable );
^
/usr/include/qt3/qmainwindow.h:87:18: note: hidden overloaded virtual function
'QMainWindow::setDockEnabled' declared here: different number of
parameters (3 vs 2)
virtual void setDockEnabled( QDockWindow *tb, Dock dock, bool enable );
^
In file included from main.cpp:30:
In file included from /usr/include/qt3/qwindowsstyle.h:45:
In file included from /usr/include/qt3/qcommonstyle.h:45:
/usr/include/qt3/qstyle.h:110:10: warning: private field 'b1' is not used
[-Wunused-private-field]
bool b1,b2,b3; // reserved
^
/usr/include/qt3/qstyle.h:110:13: warning: private field 'b2' is not used
[-Wunused-private-field]
bool b1,b2,b3; // reserved
^
/usr/include/qt3/qstyle.h:110:16: warning: private field 'b3' is not used
[-Wunused-private-field]
bool b1,b2,b3; // reserved
^
/usr/include/qt3/qstyle.h:116:9: warning: private field 'i5' is not used
[-Wunused-private-field]
int i5, i6; // reserved
^
/usr/include/qt3/qstyle.h:116:13: warning: private field 'i6' is not used
[-Wunused-private-field]
int i5, i6; // reserved
^
/usr/include/qt3/qstyle.h:118:16: warning: private field 'p2' is not used
[-Wunused-private-field]
void *p1, *p2, *p3, *p4; // reserved
^
/usr/include/qt3/qstyle.h:118:21: warning: private field 'p3' is not used
[-Wunused-private-field]
void *p1, *p2, *p3, *p4; // reserved
^
/usr/include/qt3/qstyle.h:118:26: warning: private field 'p4' is not used
[-Wunused-private-field]
void *p1, *p2, *p3, *p4; // reserved
^
12 warnings and 2 errors generated.
make[2]: *** [main.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/showeq/showeq-5.13.10.26/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/showeq/showeq-5.13.10.26'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Is there anyone who might be able to point me in the right direction, please?

[Sky_Genie]

Hi all. Would someone recommend a version other than Ubuntu, please?

Thanks

[BlueAdept]

CentOS installs right out of the box

[Sky_Genie]

CentOS installs right out of the box

Thanks. Does Ver 7 still support QT 3.3.8? Unubtu dropped it for 14 which was the start of my issues.

[BlueAdept]

Not 100% sure. Im running 6.x but I havent played for about 6 months.

[jjrh]

Radio folks to the rescue. They have the correct packages - http://debian.tryphon.eu/

I didn't really keep track of what packages you need but do a
# apt-cache search qt3

obviously you need libqt3-mt, but there are a few others which you need. make will fail because it can't find qlist.h one of those packages satisfies this.

[EQPlayer]

i keep getting the Qt error on Linux mint 17.2 so gonna download CentOS 7 Everything iso and try that its only to get SEQ going anyway as i think ide prefer that to MYseq

[Sigur]

I got it working on centOS after some messing around with it. Never could get ubuntu to work, seemed to have too much problems with wrong QT and not letting you use root or something.

[BlueAdept]

Yea the QT is very old. At least it was updated to QT4. It was under 3 until someone took the time to convert it. At least it still works with centOS without really any modifications. It is an old project without major developers. Thank goodness that we have some people that are still willing to help fix it after each patch. I would hate to see SEQ die. I have used it since late 1999 or early 2000. Even though it has been about 10 years since I really played. I still like helping with what I can.

[Sigur]

Yea I hadn't played eq for 7 years or so and recently been messing around with it again. My linux experience is pretty much nil, but messing with showeq has forced a very minimal amount of learning on it which has been fun. I think the first time around (maybe 12 years ago?) I used Redhat 9 and it pretty much worked out of the box, but that old machine was long gone. This time around (within the last year) i dug out the old Redhat CD's but had trouble with driver support and all sorts of things getting that to run on any machine i had made within the last 10 years. After that I tried Ubuntu which worked fine as an OS, but couldn't get the QT sorted and, and it seemed like it wouldn't allow the "su" command even in command prompt. After some forum searching and seeing a post from BlueAdept i gave centOS a shot for attempt #3 and got it working with some minor updates and package installs. Many thanks to the folks that have kept it alive through all the patches over the years! Speaking of which looks like there was another patch today.