[Digikam-users] Re: re Windows version

[Frank Hahn]

Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
wrote in news:BANLkTimGm-Qw73j4njqxDZz=N4ViRtP2=w at mail.gmail.com: 

> Currently i just finish to compile digiKam software compilation 2.0.0
> beta6 on my laptop (win7 MSVC2008), and all is fine. It run as
> expected, with KDELibs bugs of course.
> 
> If somebody feel to be a digiKam contributor, not as developer, but as
> windows packager, i can guide him in this task. I'm developer, not
> packager. I cannot do all...
>
Gilles:

What would be involved in compiling digikam on Microsoft Windows?

Is the required Windows software free, by that, I mean MSVC?  I am not a 
programmer but I have done some compiling of software on Solaris and Linux 
computers.

Thanks.

-- 
Frank Hahn