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Answer 1

+2 A:

As far as I know, official binaries are compatible with MSVC only. I guess you should build Botan from source to use it with MinGW. According to docs it's relatively easy to do:

$ python configure.py
$ make
$ make check
$ make install

But for me compiler autodetection didn't work as expected, so I had to do few additional steps:

Autoconfiguration:
```
$ python configure.py --cc=gcc
```

Edit generated Makefile. Replace line

LINK_TO       = -ladvapi32.lib -luser32.lib

with

LINK_TO       = -ladvapi32 -luser32

Build
```
$ make
$ make check
$ make install
```

Grey Teardrop 2010-07-17 06:45:23

You are correct, my failure to build Botan WAS because the provided DLL is for MSVC and not MinGW/GCC. I decided to use the Botan source from Qt Creator, though - much easier than messing with Python (which I don't want to install, and especially not the old version 2.4 that it requires) and makefiles. You get an upvote for pointing out my error, though. :)

Jake Petroules 2010-07-17 16:32:45

Answer 2

+2 A:

Since Botan is included in QtCreator (2.x branches), you could just recompiler QtCreator (or take the relevant parts), and use that. No messing with any makefiles (mingw works out of the box), and since you mention Qt, this will probably work very well.

rubenvb 2010-07-17 08:36:48

Yes, Botan in its entirety is in the Qt Creator 2.0 sources (`src/libs/3rdparty/botan/`). I was able to compile it perfectly with Qt Creator using the provided .pro files, no errors - worked right out of the box! Thank you Nokia, and thank you rubenvb for letting me know about this. :)

Jake Petroules 2010-07-17 16:30:15

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