generic mimetypes on windows

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Von: Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker at freenet.de>
> Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
> > Pino Toscano schrieb:
> >> Alle 21:24, giovedì 19 aprile 2007, Christian Ehrlicher ha scritto:
> >>> Anyone knows how we can create the 'default' mimetypes like text/plain
> >>> on windows? kde.xml only creates the kde specific ones and I can't
> find
> >>> a generic.xml somewhere...
> >>
> >> I think you misunderstood something about the freedesktop.org MIME
> >> system: the common archive with the most common MIME types (and the
> >> main MIME type utility) is available under the name of
> >> shared-mime-info[1]. You need to have that, since 6 weeks or so
> >> (otherwise you would not even start compiling kdelibs).
> >> You need also to point to the XDG data directory with the mime stuff
> >> using the XDG_DATA_DIRS envvar. On Unix it could be eg:
> >>
> XDG_DATA_DIRS=$KDEDIR/share:${shared-mime-info-prefix}/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS
> >>
> >> On Windows, try to make sure ${shared-mime-info-prefix}/share is in it.
> >> Then run kbuildsycoca4.
> >>
> >> [1] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info
> > Thx, as Andreas Pakulat pointed out, I forgot to install
> > freedesktop.org.xml. It was a pain compiling update-mime-database on
> > windows so I did not notice this file once the executable linked fine ;)
> I tried to add cmake support to shared-mime-info, which isn't hard. The
> main problem is that update-mime-database requires glib which adds a big
> dependency to kde on windows. :-(
> 
> Wouldn't there a way to skip glib ?
> 
This is done already - see private mail.

Christian

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