X11 on Windows

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 12 October 2015 at 08:33, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi frameworks and windows devs,
>
> from the release announcement of the latest frameworks release I learned that
> there were multiple changes to disable finding X11 on Windows (e.g. [1]). I
> think such changes are wrong and I have spoken against such changes (they are
> wrong, CMake supports disabling modules without checking in code!) in the past
> multiple times when I was aware of them (please include me in any reviews
> touching X11).
>
> Given that we came up with a good solution for OSX directly in ECM [2]. Can we
> get a similar solution for Windows? Then we can stop to patch random
> frameworks.
>

Hi Martin,good point.
The difference is that KDE on Mac developer(s) prefer to support X11,
and I am not sure anyone wants to spend precious time for supporting
X11 on Windows.

I am not, and I would be assuming WIN32 => NOT X11 in code I maintain.
So if this is consistent with general direction, equivalent of
APPLE_FORCE_X11 for windows makes no sense.
So the case for Windows in KDECMakeSettings.cmake could be simpler,
but yes, it's needed. Please give me some time for that.
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