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Subject: Shortcut to a KDE 4.9 on Windows development environment
From: "Thomas Friedrichsmeier" <thomas.friedrichsmeier () ruhr-uni-bochum ! de>
Date: 2012-12-13 16:45:45
Message-ID: 201212131745.51174.thomas.friedrichsmeier () ruhr-uni-bochum ! de
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Hi!
It had been quite a while since I last tried to get a KDE on Windows
development environment, using emerge. Meanwhile, for building RKWard on
Windows, I had been resorting to a hack[1]. However, that always had some
small quirks (such as no translations), and importantly, it was never suited
for debugging platform-related issues e.g. in kdelibs.
Around three weeks ago[2], I set out to get a "real", emerge based,
development environment of KDE (4.9). The day before yesterday, I finally
succeeded. Well, I wasn't working on this on all days, and at most a few hours
on the days I did. Still, this was _much_ more troublesome than I had
expected. In fact, if I had expected it to be _this_ time consuming, then
probably I would have continued to go with the hack, instead. Well if I ever
needed a reminder, this exercise has taught me this: The entry barrier towards
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
kderoot, and put it up for download at [3]. This is a build of the 4.9 branch,
MinGW4, 32bit, RelWithDebInfo, built on WinXP. This does _not_ include
everything (essentially just what I needed, myself), but the central
dependencies kde-runtime, kdelibs, kdepimlibs are supplied, and then some.
Also includes sources, and of course emerge itself. Download size is around
2.5GB, 6.5GB unpacked.
So: If you've been struggling to set up a KDE on Windows development
environment, or you've been too scared to even try: Consider giving this a
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
some. Let me know if it works / does not work for you.
Regards
Thomas
[1]: lists.kde.org/?l=kde-windows&m=133951510507720&w=2
[2]: Actually, it was rather six weeks ago. But at first I was struggling with
problems that had little to do with KDE on Windows.
[3]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkwardextras/files/Development/
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