How to setup kde4 on windows?

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Andreas Pakulat schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> in the last couple of days I tried to setup KDE4 on my windows box at
> work and didn't suceed. Then I put windows onto my old PIII because I
> couldn't believe I'm not getting it to work :)
> 
> However similar problems. So far I followed the informations on
> http://kdelibs.com/wiki/index.php/Building_KDElibs_4_using_GCC_and_MinGW_with_Qt_4.2
> 
> And got somewhat dupe-libs from gnuwin32 and win32libs (specifically
> libxml2, libpng and libjpeg). The only difference to the steps there is
> that I wanted to build Qt4.3 from qt-copy, which is supposed to work -
> AFAIK - as it now contains the merged sources of mac,x11 and windows
> opensource sources.
> 
Don't use gnuwin libs at all. Just our win32libs as they're more recent.
 I don't know if qt-copy works for win32 - I think qt-sources from tt
are good enough atm. gnuwin32 is only needed for some unix tools like
sed and grep.
> However neither with system-jpeg support nor with qt-jpeg it builds
> fine. I also can't seem to get the system-png to work. Basically it
> seems that even though I have -L'ed the various gnuwin32 and win32libs
> lib and bin dirs (not sure if both are needed, but the bin contains all
> the dll's and the lib all those .lib files) it can't link to libjpeg.
> What is a bit weird IMHO that the gcc-command uses -ljpeg.lib, is that
> correct? (Never built a shared lib on windows or linked to it). For png
> the problem seems to be mainly that Qt expects libpng and not libpng12
> or libpng13.
Just use built-in support from qt which works fine (if not, your system
is not set up correct). I don't know why someone wants to use system-foo
support on win32...
> 
> I also found the kdewin32 installer, which seems to install all
> support-stuff that I need, I'll check if thats enough to get qt-copy and
> other stuff compiled. Also I noticed that this one would install Qt4.2,
> so I guess it needs an update.
> 
Ralf had no time to update the packages. Maybe use Holger Schröders
approach by using emerge (see kde svn kdesupport/kdewin32/emerge)
> Finally the question: Are the instructions on that page still correct?
> Has someone ever tested to build qt-copy instead of using the binary
> package? I mainly want to avoid the binary package because I already
> have mingw installed separately.
> 
You don't need the binary package - just download the sources and
compile by your own. You need to recompile qdbus but the rest should work.

Christian