This time I made packages for msvc and mingw. This should make those happy who don't like msvc (but nevertheless use windows). Don't know if it's working - you'll see :)
I know for sure that the msvc ones work now without the crappy hack with the debug runtime libs. Simply used the same approach like you do on linux - compiled in release mode with debug informations. CMake already provides a a build type but I did not noticed this earlier...
Kopete does not work - I tried hard to understand how kopete and kwallet/kded/dbus work together but found no hint why it does not. I tried it on linux and everything was fine.
Oh - the dependencies in our kdewin installer do not work correct. So if an app complains about missing dll, try to find out in which package the dll is and install it. Sorry for this, but currently it looks like only two people have time to work on kde4/windows.
And please update your kdewin-installer to 0.8.1. I've added .tar.bz2 support to reduce the package size a little bit. This should reduce my upload time - uploading 1.5GB with 396KBit/s isn't fun...
Donnerstag, 1. November 2007
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quick question- is there a reason binaries aren't released for windows? Obviously the 'distro' won't compile it for you...
Releasing binaries is exactly what Christian Ehrlicher is doing. The core KDE project only releases source code, the KDE release team does not have the manpower, expertise and, especially in this case, OS licenses to build their own binaries, instead they let the people who know their platform best, i.e. those actually using it, build the binaries. (And often the packagers are also upstream KDE developers, it's definitely the case for the kde-windows team.) For example, the Fedora RPMs are built by Than Ngo, Rex Dieter and me. (I'm doing KDE 4 stuff mainly, Than and Rex are the long-time Fedora KDE packagers.)
If the packagers get their binaries done quickly enough, they're mentioned in the announcement. Some contributed binaries are also hosted on the kde.org mirrors, there was some talk about getting that set up for the kde-windows project on their mailing list. Others prefer making their packages available through their own infrastructure like kde-windows is doing now. For example at Fedora, we normally release the new KDE versions as updates to our released distributions, so we do not need a directory at kde.org for them. Some other distributions have dedicated backport repositories they're using for this purpose.
I am trying to run KDE4 from these binaries and have no fun up to now... :(
Today I downloaded 0.8.1, but the installer does not run.
It gives no message, but simply give up without a word after some few seconds.
How can I find out what is happening?
Hey everyone, I started http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Running with my notes on getting this working, and in its Discussion/Talk page some of the issues I've noticed with KDE4 on Windows. I was able to get it working with help from SaroEngels; I'm running KStars and okular!
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