Hi, On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Andre Heinecke <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > On Tuesday 12 June 2012 15:14:56 Andreas Pakulat wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm wondering wether it should be possible to install the Devel packages > > from kde-win-installer and use the installed stuff to build KDE apps from > > source? > Theroretically yes. Bit its not practical I do not know of anyone who does > this and it is neither documented nor really tested. At least you would > also > need some dev utils like a compiler or cmake, perl etc. and then you would > have to manually set up an environment. Make sure you use the right build > options so that everything is found etc. etc. > Well, I know my way around doing that, in fact I got pretty far without much hassle. Most of the problem was that I needed to manually select all the dev-packages, seems there are some dependencies missing there. The final problem (and why I've written that mail) seems to be that at least some of the devel-packages contain non-relocated cmake-code setting up CMake variables for libraries. So my nmake makefiles end up trying to link my targets against N:\Lib\kdewin.lib (or win32, don't know the name off-hand), which doesn't exist (I'm building in C:\KDE). > > > > Or does emerge these days support installing a complete KDE development > > environment without compiling anything? > No Emerge is mostly a source distribution with some binary packages added > for > convineance. But emerge is the way to go if you want to compile a KDE > Application from source. It is specifically designed for the task of > setting > up a development environment with all necessary tools and the dependencies > you need. I even would encourage you to use EMERGE_SOURCE_ONLY=True because > the binary packages are often a bit outdated. Well, thats sad, since building the whole stack is simply too much work upfront and also too much work for administrating if I just want to build/hack on a single KDE app. I had hoped this has improved in the last 2 years :| (I'm well aware that KDE/Windows lacks manpower and time and whatnot, but I cannot afford that either beyond getting that one app into a state where I could use it).
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