[Kde-bindings] Compiling smoke on Windows

[Ian Monroe]

2010/1/30 Elliott Slaughter <elliottslaughter at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Ian Monroe <ian.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2010/1/30 Elliott Slaughter <elliottslaughter at gmail.com>:
>> > Hi,
>> > I'm having trouble compiling smoke on Windows (preferably without having
>> > to
>> > compile all of KDE first). So far I've installed MinGW 5.1.3, Qt 4.6.1,
>> > CMake 2.8, and I grabbed kde-bindings from svn. When I try to configure
>> > the
>> > top-level kdebindings directory, I get the following error:
>> > CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
>> > 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:58 (MESSAGE):
>> >   ERROR: Could not find KDE4 kde4-config
>> > Call Stack (most recent call first)
>> >   CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package)
>> > I'm not sure if I'm following the correct procedure for compiling smoke.
>> > Is
>> > there any way to get this to work without building the rest of KDE? I
>> > looked
>> > at the variable list in cmake-gui and nothing looked particularly
>> > promising.
>> > Thanks.
>>
>> Well it looks like kde4-config is required, I guess its a bug in the
>> FindKDE4 cmake. You could stick a blank kde4-config.bat in your path
>> and see if that works. :)
>
> Then I get the following:
> CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:98 (MESSAGE):
>   ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>   CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package)
>>
>> Otherwise just accept that kdelibs is a build-time dependency of
>> Smoke. You don't have to compile kdelibs, just get it from
>> windows.kde.org.
>
> After installing kdelibs I get the following:
> CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:70
> (MESSAGE):
>
> Did not find automoc4 (part of kdesupport). Searched for
> Automoc4Config.cmake in using suffixes automoc4 lib/automoc4
> lib64/automoc4. (missing: AUTOMOC4_EXECUTABLE)
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
> C:/Bin/KDE/share/apps/cmake/modules/FindAutomoc4.cmake:56
> (find_package_handle_standard_args)
> C:/Bin/KDE/share/apps/cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake:294
> (find_package)
> C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:95
> (FIND_PACKAGE)
> CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package)
> Thanks for your help.

It says there in the error you need kdesupport. You need to install
kdelibs and all its build dependencies. Just use the windows
installer...

I heard a rumor that CMake is thinking of integrating automoc, if so
it would probably solve some of these weird dependency issues.

Ian