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Subject: Re: [Kde-pim] kdepim on Windows
From: Holger Schroeder <holger-kde () holgis ! net>
Date: 2005-01-20 19:21:50
Message-ID: 200501202021.50692.holger-kde () holgis ! net
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On Tuesday 18 January 2005 00:49, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> On Saturday 15 January 2005 17:31, Holger Schroeder wrote:
> > at kde-cygwin we are mainly interested in getting kde up and running
> > on windows, and not only in cygwin. so perhaps you would be
> > interested in working on this more "interesting" proposal...
> >
> > jaroslav staniek from http://iidea.pl/~js/qkw/ has integrated most of
> > the patches needed to compile kdelibs natively under windows into kde
> > cvs.
>
> What's the status of this? What is missing to make Kontact run on
> Windows?
there are different things that have to be done:
- if i am still informed correctly jaroslav staniek has not yet committed all
his changes to kdelibs to be able to compile it under windows.
the first step would be to solve this, so that somebody besides him can
compile kdelibs (and kexi) under windows. if this works you have a starting
ground.
- the next step would be to try to compile kdepim under that kdelibs under
windows, and i cannot estimate, if there are some pitfalls, and how much work
there still needs to be done. but as there is the kde-cygwin-x11 based
version from thorsten staerk and on the other side the ko-pi and friends from
lutz rogowski, there should not be any problematic stuff in this, somebody
just has to invest some time into this and start collecting the existing
versions and merge them together...
the kdelibs from jaroslav have to be compiled with ms visual c++, borland and
gnu compilers are not yet supported. he uses a commercial trolltech license
to compile kdelibs and kexi under windows.
he uses a qmake-based approach to compile kdelibs under windows, i donīt know
if it adds more problems or if it is better than the automake-approach. but
these are all things that can be sorted out, when we have a running version
of kdepim under windows.
i have never programmed under windows (except porting qt to it...) so i am not
familiar with the build system, linking, threading, networking stuff and so
on, but i think, that there are good chances, that a good programmer could
get a running version of kmail in a week of fulltime work. if that would be
functional at all is another question. the two real problems i see here are
networking under windows (well, kmail is about sending mail through the
network...) and dcop. iirc jaroslav did not finish networking support in
kdelibs/win32, as he doesnīt need it for kexi. and dcop somehow has to be
separated from x11. somebody told me, that libice doesnīt use x11, but i am
not aware, that somebody had ever a running dcop under windows without x11,
so perhaps there are problems.
i think it is less work to get kdepim running under windows than it is to port
it to kde 4.
perhaps i can find some time to play around with this in march, but i donīt
promise anything.
Holger
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