[Ktechlab-devel] Fwd: How do I compile/build KTECHLAB on Windows 10-Part2
David J S Briscoe
david at djsbriscoe.vispa.com
Sun Sep 4 10:29:46 BST 2022
Hi,
How would I set up the environment variables for MSVC 2019? The craft
notes only mention 2015 and 2017
Note: For Microsoft Visual Studio compiler, it's necessary to have
VCTOOLSREDISTDIR environment variable pointing to: "C:\Program Files
(x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2017\Professional\VC\Redist\MSVC\xx.xx.xxxxx" for MSVS 2017 and
VCINSTALLDIR environment pointing to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
Visual Studio\2015\Community\VC\" for MSVS 2015.
I have checked my environment variables and VCTOOLSREDISTDIR and
VCINSTALLDIR does not exist in a permanent way (maybe these are set up
somehow at run time). Would I just create these variable and point them
to the relevant directories for MSVC 2019. What variables do you have
set up? Any help welcome. Thanks.
David.
PS Maybe this will help?
https://renenyffenegger.ch/notes/Windows/development/Visual-Studio/environment-variables/index
On 04/09/2022 10:07, Zoltan Padrah wrote:
> MSVC / Visual Studio is just one of the required software components
> needed for compiling KTechLab on Windows.
> Some others are:
> - Qt libraries
> - dependencies of Qt libraries
> - (some) KDE libraries
> - dependencies of the KDE libraries
> - (some) KDE runtime components
> - dependencies of KDE runtime components
>
> Theoretically you can set up all those manually, but probably it would
> take quite some time and effort.
>
> Installing all this software can be automated, essentially this is the
> basic idea of Craft, as far as I know.
>
>
> Zoltan
>
>
> David J S Briscoe <david at djsbriscoe.vispa.com> ezt írta (időpont:
> 2022. szept. 4., V, 9:38):
>
> Hi,
> Thanks for your reply.
> I will read the information in the links you provided and give
> craft a try.
> Are there any other ways of compiling Ktechlab for Windows 10? I
> saw MSVC 2019 mentioned somewhere (I have VS 2019 and 2022
> community editions installed).
>
> David.
>
> On 03/09/2022 20:57, Zoltan Padrah wrote:
>> The craft recipe is in the craft-blueprints-kde repository [1] ;
>> this git repository (and several others) is automatically cloned
>> when Craft is set up.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://invent.kde.org/packaging/craft-blueprints-kde/-/blob/master/extragear/ktechlab/ktechlab.py
>>
>> If you want to build KTechLab on windows, I highly recommend
>> reading the documentation about Craft...
>>
>> https://community.kde.org/Craft
>>
>> https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Build_from_source/Windows
>>
>> Zoltan
>>
>>
>> David J S Briscoe <david at djsbriscoe.vispa.com> ezt írta (időpont:
>> 2022. szept. 3., Szo, 21:36):
>>
>> Hi,
>> Ive managed to install KTECHLAB on linux Mint using the
>> APT-GET command so I didn't have to build anything. Where is
>> the craft recipe located? Is it in the source code
>> repository? I'd like to give it a try. Thanks.
>>
>> David.
>>
>> On 02/09/2022 21:42, Zoltan Padrah wrote:
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> building KTechLab on Windows requires KDE Craft, please see
>>> instructions here:
>>>
>>> https://community.kde.org/Craft
>>>
>>> https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Build_from_source/Windows
>>>
>>> There exists a Craft recipe for KTechLab, so in case Craft
>>> is set up, one can build KTechLab with one command.
>>>
>>> On Linux systems building is much simpler, you just need to
>>> install KTechLab's build dependencies, typically from
>>> package manager, then get the source code and building and
>>> running should work. Please see instructions here:
>>>
>>> https://invent.kde.org/sdk/ktechlab#building-and-running
>>>
>>> Depending on how much experience you have with software
>>> development or software development on Windows, building on
>>> Linux might be simpler to start overall, while building on
>>> Windows might require to fix / work-around some things as
>>> you go.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>>
>>> Zoltan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> David J S Briscoe <david at djsbriscoe.vispa.com> ezt írta
>>> (időpont: 2022. szept. 2., P, 18:28):
>>>
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>>> Hi,
>>> I would like to build Ktechlab on Windows 10. I have QT
>>> Creator 8.01 installed but Ive never used it. Maybe this
>>> would be an opportunity to use QT. Do you have any build
>>> instructions I can follow?
>>> I also have Linux Mint 21 "Vanessa" installed and could
>>> build it on there as well. Which would be the most
>>> straightforward one to build on? Thanks.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> David, UK
>>>
>>> PS I also have visual studio 2019 and 2022 Community
>>> editions installed on Windows 10. How would I use these?
>>> Thanks.
>>>
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