kdelibs frameworks buildsystem under Windows

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Sunday 17 February 2013, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Ralf Habacker 
<ralf.habacker at gmail.com>wrote:
> > Based on
> > http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/releases/stable/4.8.0/kdelibs-x
> > 86-mingw4-4.8.0-2-bin.tar.bz2kdewin is used by the following shared
> > librares:
> > 
> > ./lib/kde4/kio_file.dll DLL Name: libkdewin.dll
> > ./lib/kde4/kio_ghelp.dll DLL Name: libkdewin.dll
> > ./lib/kde4/kio_help.dll DLL Name: libkdewin.dll
> > ./bin/libkio.dll DLL Name: libkdewin.dll
> > ./bin/libkhtml.dll DLL Name: libkdewin.dll
> > ./bin/libktexteditor.dll DLL Name: libkdewin.dll
> > ./bin/libkde3support.dll DLL Name: libkdewin.dll
> > ./bin/libkparts.dll DLL Name: libkdewin.dll
> > ./bin/libkdecore.dll DLL Name: libkdewin.dll
> > ./bin/libkdeui.dll DLL Name: libkdewin.dll

Ok, so this means at least that the kdewin library is not universally required 
for every library of kdelibs.
Ok, being required by kdecore kind of means it is needed for everything, but I 
think with the modularized libs this is not the case anymore.
> 
> Off-topic for now, but I would like to leave a note here: it would be nice
> to find the time to eliminate kdewin from as many places as possible. There
> are lots of things that are available in Qt nowadays. It would be worth the
> effort to give it a try in my opinion. What is not available, that could be
> perhaps upstreamed? Even if there is anything non-cross platform, there has
> been a QtWinExtras established lately in Qt5 upstream.

Yes, this would be *great*.

Alex