Okular building help request

Mon Feb 29 22:43:59 UTC 2016

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for that - it seems to work fine. Using it as a basis to build 
okular, I get almost there, until the build falls over with:

> mobile/components/CMakeFiles/okularplugin.dir/__/__/ui/pagepainter.cpp.obj: In function `ZN11PagePainter25paintCroppedPageOnPainterEP8QPainterPKN6Okular4PageEPNS2_16DocumentObserverEiiiRK5QRectRKNS2_14NormalizedRectEPNS2_15NormalizedPointE':
>
> C:/Users/Jonathan/KF5_emerge/k/download/git/okular/ui/pagepainter.cpp:806: undefined reference to `_imp___ZN6Okular8Settings23debugDrawAnnotationRectEv'
>
> C:/Users/Jonathan/KF5_emerge/k/download/git/okular/ui/pagepainter.cpp:124: undefined reference to `_imp___ZN6Okular8Settings14highlightLinksEv'
>
> C:/Users/Jonathan/KF5_emerge/k/download/git/okular/ui/pagepainter.cpp:125: undefined reference to `_imp___ZN6Okular8Settings15highlightImagesEv'
>
> C:/Users/Jonathan/KF5_emerge/k/download/git/okular/ui/pagepainter.cpp:84: undefined reference to `_imp___ZN6Okular8Settings17recolorBackgroundEv'
>
> C:/Users/Jonathan/KF5_emerge/k/download/git/okular/ui/pagepainter.cpp:360: undefined reference to `_imp___ZN6Okular8Settings10bWContrastEv'
>
> C:/Users/Jonathan/KF5_emerge/k/download/git/okular/ui/pagepainter.cpp:360: undefined reference to `_imp___ZN6Okular8Settings11bWThresholdEv'
>
> mobile/components/CMakeFiles/okularplugin.dir/documentitem.cpp.obj: In function `ZNK12DocumentItem22windowTitleForDocumentEv':
>
> C:/Users/Jonathan/KF5_emerge/k/download/git/okular/mobile/components/documentitem.cpp:84: undefined reference to `_imp___ZN6Okular8Settings25displayDocumentNameOrPathEv'
>
> C:/Users/Jonathan/KF5_emerge/k/download/git/okular/mobile/components/documentitem.cpp:87: undefined reference to `_imp___ZN6Okular8Settings20displayDocumentTitleEv'
>
> mobile/components/CMakeFiles/okularplugin.dir/documentitem.cpp.obj: In function `ZN12DocumentItemC2EP7QObject':
>
> C:/Users/Jonathan/KF5_emerge/k/download/git/okular/mobile/components/documentitem.cpp:38: undefined reference to `_imp___ZN6Okular8Settings8instanceERK7QString'
>
> collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I understand the _imp___ prefix on the undefined identifiers is 
connected with dynamic linking. It is also notable that all the missing 
identifiers are defined in settings.cpp But beyond that, I'm struggling 
to know whether the problem is that the identifiers are nowhere defined, 
or the linker is not able to find them. Can anyone help?

Cheers,
Jonathan

is something to do with linking against DLLs, and it is notable that all

On 26/02/16 21:06, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> not sure whether this suits your needs, but I'm also a bit curious,
> whether my "shortcut" to a KF5 environment on Windows actually works
> for people:
>    https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-windows/2016-February/009586.html
> It's MinGW, only, ATM. I spend most of the past two days trying to get
> an MSVC (2013) version ready, too, but I'm not quite there, yet.
>
> *If* this actually works, I think it would be a great-thing-to-have
> (TM) for us application developers trying to get a foothold on Windows.
>
> Regards
> Thomas
>
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 11:55:25 +1100
> Jonathan Schultz <jonathan at imatix.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've been trying to build a recent version of okular (and
>> dependencies) for Windows using a variety of methods, with only
>> moderate levels of success, and now putting out a cry for help. Here
>> is a description of what I have achieved, and where I have failed:
>>
>> kde-installer using mingw works fine, although I can only find a
>> stable release, ie version 0.16.2 of okular. I also managed to use
>> kde-installer under wine then build using mingw cross-compilation.
>> I'm pretty keen on cross-compilation as I want to produce regular
>> builds of work I am doing based on okular, and the fewer boxes I need
>> to do this the better. So if I could use get kde-installer to find an
>> 'unstable' release I'd be happy.
>>
>> I then tried using kdesrc-build with cross-compilation on the
>> kf5-minimum branch. I made quite a bit of progress here with just a
>> few patches and managed to get 47 out of 61 packages to build. Those
>> that wouldn't build all seemed to have problems with various QT5
>> cmake configuration files, and my knowledge of cmake and qmake was
>> just not enough so I abandoned this path. I'd still love to make this
>> work, so if anyone feels like lending a hand, I'd be happy to pick it
>> up again.
>>
>> So finally I gave in and tried to build under windows using emerge.
>> However my build fell apart with some kind of patch file problem that
>> I described (in the wrong place I'm guessing - 130 views and no
>> responses) here: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=107&t=131006
>> Once again I'm a bit lost on how to proceed, and given that others
>> seem to be able to make emerge work, I'm hoping that someone can help
>> with this problem.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
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