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Hi!

It had been quite a while since I last tried to get a KDE on Windows=20
development environment, using emerge. Meanwhile, for building RKWard on=20
Windows, I had been resorting to a hack[1]. However, that always had some=20
small quirks (such as no translations), and importantly, it was never suite=
d=20
for debugging platform-related issues e.g. in kdelibs.

Around three weeks ago[2], I set out to get a "real", emerge based,=20
development environment of KDE (4.9). The day before yesterday, I finally=20
succeeded. Well, I wasn't working on this on all days, and at most a few ho=
urs=20
on the days I did. Still, this was _much_ more troublesome than I had=20
expected. In fact, if I had expected it to be _this_ time consuming, then=20
probably I would have continued to go with the hack, instead. Well if I eve=
r=20
needed a reminder, this exercise has taught me this: The entry barrier towa=
rds=20
developing (on top of) the KDE platform on Windows is considerable.

As a small contribution to lowering the entry barrier, I simply 7zip'ed up =
my=20
kderoot, and put it up for download at [3]. This is a build of the 4.9 bran=
ch,=20
MinGW4, 32bit, RelWithDebInfo, built on WinXP. This does _not_ include=20
everything (essentially just what I needed, myself), but the central=20
dependencies kde-runtime, kdelibs, kdepimlibs are supplied, and then some.=
=20
Also includes sources, and of course emerge itself. Download size is around=
=20
2.5GB, 6.5GB unpacked.

So: If you've been struggling to set up a KDE on Windows development=20
environment, or you've been too scared to even try: Consider giving this a=
=20
try. One less excuse for not testing your KDE work on the Windows platform.

More details and instructions in the README at [3]. Hope this is useful to=
=20
some. Let me know if it works / does not work for you.

Regards
Thomas

[1]: lists.kde.org/?l=3Dkde-windows&m=3D133951510507720&w=3D2
[2]: Actually, it was rather six weeks ago. But at first I was struggling w=
ith=20
problems that had little to do with KDE on Windows.
[3]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkwardextras/files/Development/

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