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List:       kde-buildsystem
Subject:    Re: Replacement for kde4_add_app_icon ?
From:       Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-09-01 11:21:57
Message-ID: 540456D5.6050005 () gmail ! com
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Am 29.08.2014 12:05, schrieb Alex Merry:
> On Friday 15 August 2014 12:31:07 Ralf Habacker wrote:
>> Am 15.08.2014 11:50, schrieb Alex Merry:
>>> On Tuesday 12 August 2014 12:52:25 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>>>> Hi, i've been porting some of my apps to KF5 work and I'm noticing there
>>>> doesn't seem to be (or i can't find) a replacement for kde4_add_app_icon.
>>>>
>>>> This seems like a problem for the support in windows/macosX. Is there any
>>>> plan to work on an ecm version? Or it already exists and i failed to find
>>>> it? Or it was decided on purpose not to support it?
>>> I had a look at it before 1.0, and it seemed a little hacky (including
>>> requiring png2ico on Windows),
>> which was included in the required kdewin(-tools) package
>> Ralf
> Useful to know; I'm not sure I want ECM depending on that, however. And paths 
> get complicated on Windows.
> One possibility might be to include that tool with ECM. Alternatively, we 
> could just suck it up and put a big warning on ecm_add_application_icon saying 
> that it has this dependency on Windows (that dep should provide a CMake config 
> file, ideally).
The recent kdewin-tools package version 0.5.7 installs a related cmake
config files, which exports the required cmake png2ico target

# Create imported target png2ico
add_executable(png2ico IMPORTED)

Also KDE4_ADD_APP_ICON tries to find png2ico using find_program from the
system ysearch path which is set by the build system on windows.

Ralf

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