Use devel-package to build KDE apps from source?

[Andreas Pakulat]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Andre Heinecke <aheinecke at intevation.de>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 12 June 2012 15:14:56 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm wondering wether it should be possible to install the Devel packages
> > from kde-win-installer and use the installed stuff to build KDE apps from
> > source?
> Theroretically yes. Bit its not practical I do not know of anyone who does
> this and it is neither documented nor really tested. At least you would
> also
> need some dev utils like a compiler or cmake, perl etc. and then you would
> have to manually set up an environment. Make sure you use the right build
> options so that everything is found etc. etc.
>

Well, I know my way around doing that, in fact I got pretty far without
much hassle. Most of the problem was that I needed to manually select all
the dev-packages, seems there are some dependencies missing there. The
final problem (and why I've written that mail) seems to be that at least
some of the devel-packages contain non-relocated cmake-code setting up
CMake variables for libraries. So my nmake makefiles end up trying to link
my targets against N:\Lib\kdewin.lib (or win32, don't know the name
off-hand), which doesn't exist (I'm building in C:\KDE).


> >
> > Or does emerge these days support installing a complete KDE development
> > environment without compiling anything?
> No Emerge is mostly a source distribution with some binary packages added
> for
> convineance. But emerge is the way to go if you want to compile a KDE
> Application from source. It is specifically designed for the task of
> setting
> up a development environment with all necessary tools and the dependencies
> you need. I even would encourage you to use EMERGE_SOURCE_ONLY=True because
> the binary packages are often a bit outdated.


Well, thats sad, since building the whole stack is simply too much work
upfront and also too much work for administrating if I just want to
build/hack on a single KDE app.

I had hoped this has improved in the last 2 years :| (I'm well aware that
KDE/Windows lacks manpower and time and whatnot, but I cannot afford that
either beyond getting that one app into a state where I could use it).
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-windows/attachments/20120612/ae8c35ee/attachment.html>