Any setup needed to use QDBusServer under Windows?

[francois]

Hello,

I was trying to use QDBusServer under Windows With Qt 5.4. From what I understood QDBusServer can be used to communicate between processes on a computer without having to launch a dbus daemon.

The simple code is working on Linux but not on Windows, can someone help me to know why?

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    QApplication app(argc, argv);
    QDBusServer server;

    qDebug() << server.isConnected() << server.address();
    return app.exec();
}

Thanks

[Rondog]

DBus is not available on Windows. Same idea that COM is not available in *nix.

There are windows ports of DBus (dbus4win or windbus) but even if you have this there is a very good chance QDBus won't build unless it checks to see if the option exists independent of the platform (as opposed to checking for Q_OS_WIN). I don't know about this part but suspect it doesn't check at all.

[A Former User]

Dbus is becoming even 'more Linux only' as it is being merged into the Kernel (maybe in Linux 4.2).

[francois]

With Qt 5.4 QtDBus is built by default and seems to be supported on all platforms: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtmodules.html#qt-add-ons.

[SGaist]

Hi,

And the windows port is part of dbus

[francois]

@SGaist Yes, I successfully compiled dbus on Windows. That is why I don't understand why I can't get it to work on Windows. There is no error messages nor crash. It just do nothing!