Use devel-package to build KDE apps from source?

[Andreas Pakulat]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Thomas Friedrichsmeier <
thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:

> On Tuesday 12 June 2012, Andre Heinecke wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I'm using this approach to build binaries of RKWard. True, probably it's
> not
> recommendable. But most of the time this approach allows me to upgrade the
> version of KDE I'm building against much faster than by using emerge.
>

Thanks for the information, I'll check how much of the files need patching
(I did find several occurrence of the N:/ folder). Looking at the website,
is ${_IMPORT_PREFIX} a cmake variable set automatically? (didn't see it in
the envvars list you're using).

Andreas
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