X64 MSVC KDE

[Christian Ehrlicher]

> Von: Bernhard Reiter
> Hi Christian,
> 
> Am Samstag, 22. August 2009 12:35:07 schrieb Christian Ehrlicher:
> > Casper van Donderen schrieb:
> > > As promised on IRC during the week I tried to start to compile x64 KDE
> > > packages for Windows.
> > >
> > > This causes a lot of problems with the dependencies (the GNU ones)
> > > because these need to be compiled as x64 as well. The only way to
> compile
> > > these is with mingw-w64. I spent some time on their IRC channel
> yesterday
> > > OFTC:#mingw-w64. And came to the conclusion after some trying that:
> >
> > This as exactly what I expected... instead trying to build something
> > which is not really needed you should make all other things work.
> 
> to me it seems Casper wanted to investiate, which is something I respect.
> Casper, I like to thank you for trying and reporting, 
> this is a contribution to KDE and helpful!
> 
> > But since this needs some investiagtion and debugging nobody cares and
> this
> > was also one of the things why I stopped my contributions.
> 
> Christian, I am deeply grateful for your past contributions, 
> but you do sound bitter in this post.
> 
> I know that I do care! In addition Casper and others demonstrage
> that they want to help the cause of getting KDE 
> and its applications running on windows.
> Instead of muttering something like the above, I would appreciate more
> helpful 
> explanations from you , like a pointer to the list what really needs to be
> done and how all other things can be fixed to work. 
> 
> Of course this list will draw different opinions and discussion as well,
> but I believe this is a good thing. 
> 
You need a list?
Ok - I tried to compile kate on windows (because debugging and fixing bugs for kate on linux isn't easy for me) and had to fix three or four bugs... and if this is not enough - take a look at bugs.kde.org or run a 'make test' in kdelibs.


Christian
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