Building latest release of KDE

[Doug]

On 11/22/2014 07:45 AM, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is a terribly late reply. I wish somebody from the "inner circle" would
> answer such questions, as I really find the situation rather non-obvious, too,
> and I can't really give any definite answers.
>
> Anyway, I can give you some pointers:
>
> On Saturday 08 November 2014 21:29:23 Paul Manners wrote:
>> I'm wanting to try out the latest version of Okular in Windows.  I've spent
>> some time reading though the documentation on the KDE for Windows
>> Initiative site as well the okular website, forums, IRC and mailing lists.
>> I'm trying to find a path of least resistance but the details I've found
>> are from posts and documentation that goes back quite some time, so I'm not
>> sure if they are still valid.
>>
>> My findings so far are:
>>
>> - There's no new release of KDE for Windows that includes the latest
>> version of Okular.  The last release was May 2013 based KDE 4.10.2.  I get
>> the feeling that the KDE binary builds (for windows) are no longer being
>> produced due to a shift towards kf5.  I don't however see any formal
>> releases of kf5 so I'm guessing what I need to focus on is a custom build
>> of KDE 4.14.2 in windows.
>
> Some things to be noted:
> - As there is not even a branch for KDE 4.14 in emerge, I would expect it to
> be a prohibitive amount of work to build KDE 4.14 on Windows. Perhaps you do
> not really need the very latest okular? Perhaps the one coming with KDE 4.13
> would be good enough.
> - You do not necessarily need all of KDE 4.14 in order to build the latest
> okular. At least its CMakeLists.txt suggests KDE 4.6.0+ is required, only. But
> of course it's quite possible that nobody adjusted the dependency setting in a
> while, and it's totally out-of-date.
> - So what I'd suggest is: Try building KDE 4.13. If you _really_ need a more
> recent okular, modify the okular portage file
> (emerge/portage/kde/kdegraphics/okular/okular.XYZ.py) to point to the latest
> stable git branch, instead of the KDE/4.13 branch (the "gitHEAD" target). Try
> if that works.
>
> Now the big caveat:
> - In my experience, building a not-so-recent KDE release on Windows is a
> really cumbersome exercise, as many downloads referenced have moved or are no
> longer available at all. I'm not sure, what state the kde-4.13-branch is in.
> - Personally, I'm really glad, I made a snapshot of my kde-4.10 emerge tree,
> and use that for building. Good enough for me, _might_ be good enough to build
> a recent okular (see above). Just in case you hit a dead-end on kde-4.13, and
> you want to give that a try:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkwardextras/files/Windows/Development/ .
>
> No idea on the compiler issue.
>
> Regards
> Thomas
>
>
You can get Adobe Reader for Windows. Why mess with something inferior?
--doug