Compiling Under Windows Obsolete?

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

Compiling under Windows is certainly possible, but to be honest, we will
not do it since many years now. All is cross-compiled under Linux.

When i said all, it's from the start to the installer. There is no Windows
stuff used in this task. This have the most advantage to simplified the
workflow : all is done on the same computer used for the main development
under Linux.

No Windows, no Microsoft compiler, no extra proprietary libraries, no virus
risk. Well a pleasure for a developers.

If you is interested, all is explained here :

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/project/bundles/mxe/README

Note : The MacOS bundle still compiled under MacOS, but it's technically
possible to cross compile with clang under Linux, there is no framework as
MXE cross compiler for Windows available for Apple device.

Best

Gilles Caulier



Le ven. 22 mars 2019 à 21:07, hardy <hardy.public at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> I searched for instructions on compiling under Windows but only came up
> with
> the following:
>
> http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/525
>
> http://archive.vn/SXx99
>
> The first is a broken link and the second is very old. Looking back at the
> discussion on this topic it seems to stop about 10 years ago. There's
> probably a very good reason for this but I would like to know the
> background
> please.
>
> - Has it become technically impossible to do so?
> - Or has it simply become redundant due to compilation for all platforms
> possible under Linux?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
>
>
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