KDE Development on Windows

[Chris]

<rant>
As a developer who is trying to compile and then improve kmymoney on windows 
I must say it is the most painful process.

If you want portability for KDE apps you need to uncouple applications from 
a lot of the hardcore KDE stuff. Just creating a suitable environment for 
building kmymoney has proved exhausting to the point of wanting to give up. 
Is it really worth the agro?

I gave up two years ago and I am close to doing so again. What would help is 
a way of isolating those libraries that are absolutely necessary AND make it 
possible to have both a release copy of an application and a dev copy 
running on the same machine. Currently the plugin architecture forbids it 
without some serious acrobatics. Why the plugin system can't load a plugin 
that is in the same directory as the application I do not know. Thats the 
way dll's are loaded. App directory first, shared folders last. Why do I 
even need ksycoca4 I'll never know. Are you really trying to emulate windows 
registry? one of the worst inventions like ahh ever.

Now I have to get back to the build process it appears a library that I was 
able to build last week cant be built this week. seems it cant find a header 
file... sighhhh....

Oh and keep moving things to git that's is definately a major improvement.

Did you hear subversion is moving to git.... No wait 1st of April ;)

Chris
</rant>

On 2/04/2014 6:23 AM, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2014, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
>
>> On 1 April 2014 20:31, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> In my experience, there are very few KDE programs that work in Windows. I
>>> think the only ones I have are Dolphin, Find Files, and Kate, and I think,
>>> Solitaire.
>>
>> Maybe but I think it's not a technical barrier but missing apps need
>> dedicated mainainers for Windows.
>>
>
> Well, krita, too, but most windows users don't see the KDE part... Except 
> in the about box, of course. There were technical barriers though, like 
> stripping out dbus, kded, running kbuildsycoca4 after install. Other 
> barriers still exist, like translations not working (except, weirdly 
> enough, for the choose-language dialog box).
>
> Boud
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