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.

? Offline

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!