https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405506
Bug ID: 405506
Summary: Needs specific instructions about how to build from
source
Product: kdiff3
Version: 1.8.x
Platform: unspecified
OS: MS Windows
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: application
Assignee: reeves...@gmail.com
Reporter: ross.boy...@ucsf.edu
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
Please describe specifically how to build the package from source on Windows or
*nix. Ideally this would go in INSTALL; alternately it could go in the README.
This would start with a list of prerequisite software, where to obtain it, and
whether source or binary versions were necessary. It would then describe
environment setup and build steps.
DETAILS
The current source code (git://anongit.kde.org/kdiff3.git) does not explain in
any specific way how to build the package on either Windows (my current
concern) or *nix.
INSTALL is simply a pointer to the README, which has some general remarks about
requirements at the top. The old, specific, instructions were deleted as
obsolete, but they haven't been replaced by anything. It doesn't even indicate
which specific KF5 frameworks are required.
Maybe this is all obvious to those familiar with cmake or KF5, but it's not
obvious to me. The old INSTALL recipe of configure; make; make install was
"obvious" to those familiar with it, but it was still documented in INSTALL.
I'm hoping for something similar.
https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Build_from_source/Windows has
been only marginally helpful. Having followed the steps, I'm not even sure if
I've completed them properly or not (the last thing was the message
Execute: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\Shared\Python37_64\python.exe
c:\Users\rdboylan\Documents\src\CraftRoot\craft-master\bin\craft.py craft
Please ensure that you have installed the C++ component
). And it was also unclear to me from those instructions whether it would
suffice to download the Qt binaries.
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