[Digikam-users] Building digikam on windows

[Peter Shute]

It will be several gigabytes, too big to distribute, unless you have access to lots of cheap bandwidth. 

You could maintain an original and an updated installation, and work out which files have changed, and just distribute those. But then people will need to know exactly where to put them, and how.

I wonder if a better approach might be to ask the kde-win people what to do to help those who can't compile it for themselves. There must be other kde programs suffering the same problems.

Peter Shute


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----- Original Message -----
From: David Kerber <dkerber at miner.mst.edu>
To: digikam-users at kde.org <digikam-users at kde.org>
Sent: Fri Aug 27 05:38:26 2010
Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Building digikam on windows

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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> From: David Kerber<dkerber at miner.mst.edu>
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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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