Getting started

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Bo Thorsen schrieb:
> Wednesday 28 February 2007 10:44 Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de wrote:
>> Von: Bo Thorsen <bo at thorsen-consulting.dk>
>>
>>> Hi People,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to get started building KDE on Windows, but it's not really
>>> working.
>>>
>>> I'm using Visual Studio Express 2005 on Vista with Qt 4.2.2. I have
>>> already on
>>> previous Qt projects set up VS with the SDK and the correct paths.
>>>
>>> I have installed CMake and Perl, but have problems with win32libs. I
>>> downloaded the GUI installer for it and ran it, but I'm not completely
>>> sure
>>> what to get. The website says I should get all bin and lib packages, but
>>> is
>>> that really true? My guess is that I should only get the bin and lib
>>> packages
>>>
>>> >from the win32libs group. But there are a number of the packages in this
>>>
>>> group that are not really available - aspell, giflib, iconv, and others
>>> doesn't have any bin, lib, doc, or src to check.
>> Use the complete package here - I'm splitting them only when I build a new
>> package.
> 
> I tried that already (and just again to be certain). It doesn't work. I 
> checked the 'all' on all the win32libs packages that are not split, and it 
> didn't actually download anything.
> 
>>> When I run the cmake...VS8...kdewin32, it complains about a missing iconv
>>> include file. This might have suggested that my assumption about only
>>> getting
>>> stuff from the win32libs is wrong, but iconv is only "available" in this
>>> group. And as explained above, it isn't really available.
>>>
>>> Where am I going wrong here?
>> You only need win32libs libs - if one is missing let us know (I've several
>> other packages installed here this could lead to the problem that I
>> sometimes forget the dependencies)
>>
>> I'll add iconv this evening. It's missing because it was not needed until I
>> recompiled some packages with iconv support. For now you can download it
>> from gnuwin32 and copy the files to win32libs subdir.
> 
> The iconv package isn't there in the other groups. It's only present in 
> win32libs where the installer can't actually find it.
> 
I've uploaded a new kdewin-installer which should solve those problems.

Christian



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