Question about goal of Windows/Mac frameworks

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Impressive! And cool to see another project using the cmake externals 
approach, I can copy a lot of it for Krita 3, I think. How are you 
handling icons? Bundling the breeze theme, or putting the icons in resource
files?

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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.krita.org, http://www.valdyas.org

On Thu, 22 Oct 2015, Christoph Cullmann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> btw., a preliminary self contained Kate for Windows can be found here:
>
> ftp://cullmann.io/cullmann/
>
> Created with the CMake file from this repo by Kåre Särs
>
> https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fsars%2Fkate-windows.git&a=tree
>
> Plain Qt, normal Visual Studio, can be deployed without global stuff.
> (you need the Visual Studio redist package, thought, or you bundle that .dll
> in the zip, too)
>
> ZIP is only around 30MB, I think that is not that bad, no real need to spend
> time on sharing stuff.
>
> Greetings
> Christoph
>
> ----- Am 22. Okt 2015 um 8:39 schrieb cullmann cullmann at absint.com:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> Am 21.10.2015 um 01:19 schrieb Aleix Pol:
>>>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 1:12 AM, Ralf Habacker <ralf at habacker.de> wrote:
>>>>>> Christoph Cullmann <cullmann at absint.com> hat am 20. Oktober 2015 um 16:49
>>>>>> geschrieben:
>>>>>> That works only, if the applications bundle their ui files in resources,
>>>>>> too, otherwise, they just won't be found
>>>>>> and the applications break, unless you patch again Qt to look in
>>>>>> non-standard locations.
>>>>> yes, the following patch
>>>>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/home:rhabacker:branches:windows:mingw:win32:Qt54/mingw32-libqt5-qtbase/qt5-qstandardpath-data-location.patch?expand=0
>>>>> is a workaround to fix some of the issues.
>>>> That's why Christoph is saying: "unless you patch again Qt to look in
>>>> non-standard locations.".
>>> umbrello for example depends on about 50 other libraries and packages
>>> https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:rhabacker:branches:windows:mingw:win32:KF511.
>>> Not patching Qt requires to repack every single package :-(, by either
>>> hacking the cmake build system to use different install locations or to
>>> reorder the installed files after cmake installing.
>>> 
>>> Having Qt support for "standard linux path layout" for example by
>>> extending qt.conf to support QStandardPath (qt.conf is already required
>>> for KDE on Windows) shortcuts this repackaging need completly.
>> I at least fixed already all frameworks required by the current Kate build
>> (beside that KIO slave don't work atm and I guess
>> I missed 1-2 files still not in resources):
>> 
>> kconfig
>> kguiaddons
>> ki18n
>> kitemviews
>> sonnet
>> kwindowsystem
>> kwidgetsaddons
>> kcompletion
>> kdbusaddons
>> karchive
>> kcoreaddons
>> kjobwidgets
>> kcrash
>> kservice
>> kcodecs
>> kauth
>> kconfigwidgets
>> kiconthemes
>> ktextwidgets
>> kglobalaccel
>> kxmlgui
>> kbookmarks
>> solid
>> kio
>> kparts
>> ktexteditor
>> 
>> That means they now by "default" just work, if you use the master branch.
>> More frameworks to go, for sure, but that is really doable ;=)
>> 
>> Greetings
>> Christoph
>> 
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