Compiler-support on Windows for KDE 4.0

[Paulo Jorge Guedes]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Ehrlicher [mailto:Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de]
> Sent: quinta-feira, 27 de Julho de 2006 9:51
> To: kalzium at kde.org; kde-core-devel at kde.org
> Subject: Re: Compiler-support on Windows for KDE 4.0
> 
> Von: Carsten Niehaus <cniehaus at gmx.de>
> > Hi
> >
> > In Kalzium we want to introduce a dependency (of course with a
> > configure-check) on GSL [1]. It should be possible to build GSL with
> > minGW,
> > Cygwin, MSVC++ .Net, but perhaps not with MSVC 6++ [2].
> >
> > As KDE4 will support Windows it should be compilable, of course ;-)
Now
> my
> > question is: Is there already a list of minimum-version we will
demand?
> If
> > I
> > googled correctly MSVC 6 is already 8 years old so I guess that we
will
> > demand something newer?
> >
> msvc6 wasn't supported by Jaroslaw's kdelibs3/win32 and I wonder how
tt
> mangaged to get Qt4 compile with this 'compiler'. So you don't need to
> take care about this. Don't know if we should support VS .Net2002/2003
- I
> think we all using msvc2005 or gcc...
> 
> >
> > Next question: is there something like an automated daily/weekly
build
> for
> > windows as I have no access to a windowssystem but would at least
like
> to
> > get
> > info why/where my code break in windows (in case it breaks)...
> >
> Currently no, only kdelibs. Maybe we should extend this to some apps? 

It doesn't make much sense yet since kdelibs doesn't build on Windows:

http://public.kitware.com/dashboard.php?name=kde

Paulo

> But I don't have a machine big enough to run a dashboard each day...
it takes
> ~1hour to compile kdelibs only on my machine.