State of the buildsystem in KF5

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Wed Mar 6 18:32:44 UTC 2013


Hi,

here's a really short summary of the current state of the buildsystem in 
kdelibs.

kdeqtstaging, all libraries in tier1/ and all libraries in tier2/ can be built 
as part of kdelibs, or each one separately stand-alone.
So, except still needing kdeqtstaging, the buildsystems in tier1/ and tier2/ 
are basically done.
They work as they are now, and could be used as independent packages.

What I really do not know is how good they work on OSX, and even more so on 
Windows. It would be really good if somebody could spend time on kdelibs 
frameworks under Windows. I mean *really* good.
We may even still have a blocker there with the missing manifest-for-mingw 
stuff.

KDELibs4Config.cmake and maybe also kde4support may be a bit shaky...
I built plasma-frameworks last weekend and it worked for me, so it seemed to 
be ok.
But I'm afraid this is some growing pain we'll have as long as the kdelibs 
modularization is not finished.

Alex


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