Hi! Looking to bring your KF5 application / library to Windows, but scared of going through a complex and lengthy setup procedure on an alien OS? Here's a shortcut: http://files.kde.org/rkward/testing/Windows_Environment/ Download, unpack, run "kdeenv.bat", and you should find your Windows development environment all set up and ready, including all KF5 frameworks, and your favorite texteditor kate / kwrite already installed.
Don't let this discourage you from building your own emerge tree from scratch, and doing so still has several advantages. But if you've been shying away from KF5 on Windows, because the initial setup seemed too cumbersome, this may just be the shortcut you've been looking for. README.txt pasted below. Regards Thomas --- What's this? --- The folder "k" contains the root directory of my build of KDE Frameworks 5 on Windows using emerge (http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/Windows/emerge). Packed using 7zip (http://http://www.7-zip.org/). Size of the extracted archive is around 7.2 GB. Installations of python (3.5 and 2.7) are also included, for a fully functional emerge tool. Un7zip to drive K:\ (see "Config and paths", below), enter K:\ cd K:\k\emerge kdeenv.bat in a command line, and you should be all set up. kate and kwrite can be run directly from Explorer, without setting any paths. Tools such as git, gcc, etc. are available from the command line after running kdeenv.bat. --- Intended audience --- The intended audience includes: - Developers wishing to work with the KDE platform on Windows - Users who have been told to try this archive, explicitly, and by a trusted person (e.g. to check if a bug is still present) - Users who are really curious *and* aware that curiousity killed the cat. If you do not belong to any of these categories, then this archive is not for you. --- Why shouldn't I just build my own tree using emerge? --- If you want to do that, by all means, do! That's still the canonical way to get a build environment of KDE on Windows. And the more people are going this way, the sooner any problems on the path will be recognized and fixed. This archive is targetted at those who would like a shortcut. I know I would have liked to have one, for various reasons. I share it in the hope that more developers will start looking at KDE on Windows at all, when getting started is really easy. This in turn, should help most in improving our support for the Windows platform. --- Compiler and platform --- I compiled for i386 (32bit) and using MinGW. If you plan on using a different compiler, or compiling for a different architecture, then this archive will not be of any use to you. I compiled on a Windows 8.1 (virtual) box. You should be fine with any desktop version of Windows starting at Windows 8.1 or later. That is not optimal, I know, but currently I lack a suitable Windows Vista / Windows 7 license. Windows XP is no longer supported in emerge. --- What's included? --- All KF5 frameworks, their dependencies and kate kate / kwrite. This is a snapshot from git around Mid-Freburary 2016. Thus, KF5 version should be roughly 5.19.0. Qt is at 5.5.1. You should find all sources included. In theory, you should be able to rebuild everything, without the need to download any additions (using the "--offline" option of emerge). I have not tried this, though. If you find anything missing, please drop me a note. Do heed all copyright notices! --- What's not included and caveats --- - QtWebEngine is not included, as that refuses to compile with MinGW. (Which is downright shameful, if you ask me!) - QtWebKit is included, but the only app I tried using it crashes while using it. Not sure, whether the problem is in the app (rkward) or in QtWebKit. - I removed the entire build directory, as this would have made the package huge. If you want to rebuild something, you will have to rebuild that from scratch. But importantly, you will _not_ have to build all dependencies, first. --- Config and paths --- My KDE was rooted at K:\k . The runtime should work fine, even if you extract the archive to a different path. However, absolute path references are all over the build system. So if you want to compile anything, you probably have to make sure to use the same root path I did. Hint: Try using Subst K: C:\Where\you\actually\extracted\this\archive You may also have to make some adjustments in K:\k\etc\kdesettings.ini. Note that all git and svn checkouts are anonymous and thus read-only. Hint for changing that: git remote set-url origin [pushable url] --- More technical details --- I had to apply some small patches to khtmlpart, locally. If this gets into conflict with patches included upstream, "git reset --hard" is your friend. Finally, I copied the MinGW runtime libs from k\mingw\bin\ to k\bin, in order to make KDE applications start without having to set the path, first. Hope that doesn't cause any probs, elsewhere. Thomas Friedrichsmeier, 2016-02-23
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