StarBurn in Qt + MinGW

matthew · **Joined:** Sun Nov 20, 2011 5:20 pm **Posts:** 3

Hello. I want to develop small application with Qt + MinGW 4.4 for burning CD/DVD/BD. I would like to wrap the StarBurn functionality in my own c++ library that will offers high-level API to my application (moc, signal slot system, properties etc). But I have question about "compability" beetwen StarBurn library and MinGW compiler. Can I use the starburn libraries with mingw compiler in qtcreator? Im from Poland so I am sorry for my english.

matthew · **Joined:** Sun Nov 20, 2011 5:20 pm **Posts:** 3

One problem that I encountered lay in mingw header => winbase.h. Declaration of SYSTEMTIME structure in mingw winbase.h was:

Code:

typedef struct _SYSTEMTIME {
   WORD wYear;
   WORD wMonth;
   WORD wDayOfWeek;
   WORD wDay;
   WORD wHour;
   WORD wMinute;
   WORD wSecond;
   WORD wMilliseconds;
} SYSTEMTIME,*LPSYSTEMTIME;

and i changed this declaration to:

Code:

typedef struct _SYSTEMTIME {
   WORD wYear;
   WORD wMonth;
   WORD wDayOfWeek;
   WORD wDay;
   WORD wHour;
   WORD wMinute;
   WORD wSecond;
   WORD wMilliseconds;
} SYSTEMTIME,*PSYSTEMTIME,*LPSYSTEMTIME;

because starburn library uses near pointer *PSYSTEMTIME. After this change my library which uses starburn library compile succesfull.
Can anyone tell me about any other issues with mingw and starburn library?

dima (staff) · **Joined:** Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:44 am **Posts:** 609

Hello,

1) We didn't check whether our SDK is compatible with MinGW;

2) We will be glad to help you resolve possible issues with MinGW;

Regards,

Dmitry

anton (staff) · **Posted:** Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:22 pm

If you'll use dynamic linking (DLL) everything should be fine. Static linking is not going to work and there's no way to workaround this.

It's OK to change / add names but you should not change structure sizes / packing / change member variables.

matthew · **Joined:** Sun Nov 20, 2011 5:20 pm **Posts:** 3

Thank you for the reply. I'm going to use only dynaminc linking libraries for my projects. Everything was OK after changing/adding near *PSYSTEMTIME pointer definition to my MinGW <winbase.h> file.

anton (staff) · **Posted:** Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:18 am

Good. So you're going to be fine so far

Let us know if you'd have other issues (IF).

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