kdelibs frameworks buildsystem under Windows

[Laszlo Papp]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes, I'm porting code away from kde_file.h (which is the API interface to
>
>> kdewin), when moving it into frameworks.
>>
>> What about stuff like mode_t, though? People reported that karchive-qt4
>> doesn't
>> build on Windows because of that. Does that come from kdewin too?
>>
> in case of visual studio compilers yes. Because they do not define mode_t,
> a replacement definition is there at
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdesupport/kdewin/repository/revisions/master/entry/include/msvc/sys/types.h#L70


Perhaps it is better to port away from Posix altogether to a more
cross-platform solution as Windows is not Posix compliant?

Once that is done, one could see how much left that is worth the effort of
upstreaming.

Laszlo

PS.: If it is that desperate, perhaps one could work on a QtWinPosix
compatibility library upstream. :-)
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