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On 8.12.2024 16.31, Tobias Leupold wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #007cff;">E-Mail von Teemu
Hämäläinen vom Sonntag, 8. Dezember 2024, 14:17:30 MEZ:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #007cff;">Hi,
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Once upon a time, there was a big promise that Qt/KDE would
provide easy
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cross-platform portability...
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If I remember correctly, years ago there also was some guidance
on how
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to compile/run KPhotoAlbum on Windows, but I have searched those
now
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without success.
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Any pointers for this - how to compile, or information if there
any
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clear showstoppers (libraries used that are not available on
Win)?
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I can only speak of me: Concerning KPA and KDE, I'm a Linux-only
user. It may
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be possible to compile KPA along with the needed dependencies on
Windows as
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well, but I have no clue about that. Building a plain Qt program
on Linux,
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Windows and macOS is not a big deal, I do that e.g. with
muckturnier.org. But
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KPA depends on all kind of KDE stuff, so I think it's more
complicated.
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Cheers, Tobias
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Thank you. I actually managed to get quite far in my effort here, as
Google found me this very helpful guide: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpdg3grSCDg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpdg3grSCDg</a>
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This eventually guided me to this page: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://community.kde.org/Craft">https://community.kde.org/Craft</a>
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With the Craft, I was able to compile a build many KDE packages and
applications - I had e.g. Kate and KCalc running on my Windows
machine in under 30 minutes from starting that Youtube video.
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There was a blueprint available for KPhotoAlbum as well, and it got
quite far with the dependencies. But the progress was unfortunately
stopped with "libkipi".
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First, it was trying to find libkipi from
"download.kde.org/stable/release-service/24.08.3/", but it wasn't
found there.
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I was able to change the package version to "master", where it was
found, but it seems that the source for libkipi is for Qt5 - and
with Craft one needs to choose either Qt5 or Qt6 (based on my very
limited understanding), so with KPa's latest being Qt6, it was
incompatible. But a very promising start in just couple of hours,
nonetheless.
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I doubt that this Craft-related issue is specific to Windows., and
as Craft is available also for Linux, I was wondering if it is
possible to get KPhotoAlbum "officially" supported and available
through Craft as well?
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Probably the issue I faced with libkipi would be easily solvable by
someone more experienced in KDE development... and supporting
Craft-based builds would be an extremely easy way to achieve the
cross-platform reach for this excellent software.
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Thanks,
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Teemu
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