[Digikam-users] Building digikam on windows

[David Kerber]

On 8/26/2010 3:20 PM, Peter Shute wrote:
> But once you've compiled it, how will you distribute it? And which files need distributing? I assume the compilation process creates more than just an exe for digiKam, but also plugins and a whole matching KDE environment. Or am I wrong?

I have no idea right now.  That's one of many things I need to learn 
about it.  I'm hoping that maybe if somebody goes through the KDE on 
windows installation procedure to get a running copy of digiKam, that 
maybe my build may be able to just be copied over the old one, and have 
it run.  But I have no idea right now if that will actually work or not.

D

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> Peter Shute
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Kerber<dkerber at miner.mst.edu>
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> Sent: Fri Aug 27 05:05:15 2010
> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Building digikam on windows
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> On 8/26/2010 2:40 PM, JUANGAL at iies.es wrote:
>> windows users, including me, are dummies in compilation, for the most. I
>> had programmed and compiled in fortran, basic and a little in Pascal,
>> but , since windows 95 appeared, I lost ability for it.
>>
>> Would be nice compile and distribute digikam for windows users.
>
> That's what I'm going to try to do, but don't hold your breath; I'm not
> a C programmer, so most of what I'm doing will be following directions
> by rote.
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>>
>> juangal
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>> ----Mensaje original----
>> De: pshute at nuw.org.au
>> Fecha: 26/08/2010 2:26
>> Para: "digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
>> power of open source"<digikam-users at kde.org>
>> Asunto: Re: [Digikam-users] Building digikam on windows
>>
>> This is exactly the sort of problem I ran into when I tried it. I assume
>> it's to do with changes to what's included in the distribution, what's
>> been renamed, and sometimes what's been forgotten. I spent days trying
>> all sorts of ways, and finally joined the kde-windows list to get help.
>>
>> Here's the thread, hope it helps, but I suspect you'll still have problems:
>> http://old.nabble.com/Compiling-digiKam-td27193671.html
>>
>> Given that it doesn't seem possible to get updates into the Windows KDE
>> distribution within a reasonable amount of time, perhaps a better
>> distribution strategy is to work at keeping the download and compilation
>> instructions current. I don't know if the instructions will then end up
>> only working for people installing for the first time, i.e. whether
>> preloaded stuff affects the procedure.
>>
>> Be warned that a first time compilation takes a lot of download time, a
>> lot of diskspace, and a lot of compilation time. According to that
>> thread, it downloaded maybe 3GB, which expanded out to 8GB during
>> compilation, and it all took maybe 20 hours. It's not a job to be
>> started without adequate preparation.
>>
>> Peter Shute
>>
>>   >  -----Original Message-----
>>   >  From: David Kerber [mailto:dkerber at miner.mst.edu]
>>   >  Sent: Thursday, 26 August 2010 10:09 AM
>>   >  To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional
>>   >  with the power of open source
>>   >  Subject: [Digikam-users] Building digikam on windows
>>   >
>>   >  I'm starting on building digikam on windows xp using the
>>   >  tutorial on the digikam site that Gilles pointed out, and
>>   >  have already run into a
>>   >  difference: The current kde on windows installation (4.4.4)
>>   >  does not have any packages called automoc listed anywhere in
>>   >  it. Is this package still needed for the digiKam build?
>>   >
>>   >  d
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