kde appimage (or equivalent) for Windows

[Jean-Baptiste Mardelle]

On Sunday, November 13, 2016 4:34:07 AM CET, Zeeshan Hasan wrote:
> Hi, 
> My company would like to donate some developer time to get the 
> windows port ready.
> Any tips on how to proceed?

Hello,

Thanks for your message. This is indeed a much requested / wanted feature 
and would be a fantastic contribution.

The work ok Windows port was mostly done by Vincent Pinon and Joseph 
Joshua.

Their approach was to use MXE (http://mxe.cc), which does a cross 
compilation on Linux. But last time I heard about it, the app compiled but 
crashed or froze on startup without any error message, making it hard to 
debug.

Joseph also had a look at emerge (not Gentoo emerge) - a KDE based project 
to compile on windows: 
https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Build_from_source/Windows

Project page: https://github.com/KDE/emerge

I have personnally not invested time in this effort so I cannot say much 
more but will ask Vincent and Joseph to document what they have done so 
that it is possible to continue their efforts.

It should also be possible to look at how Shotcut (https://www.shotcut.org 
) provides windows binaries. Shotcut is Qt5 based and uses MLT, so Kdenlive 
is very similar, with the added KDE Frameworks requirement.

And last, the kde-windows might be of some help:
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows

I will come back to you as soon as I can gather more infos about current 
progress.

Best regards

Jean-Baptiste Mardelle






> From: jdd <jdd at dodin.org>; 
> To: <kdenlive at kde.org>; 
> Subject: kde appimage (or equivalent) for Windows 
> Sent: Sat, Nov 12, 2016 5:58:39 PM 
>
> Hello,
>
> I see on the download page:
>
>
> "Windows
>
> As a result of Google’s Summer of Code 2016, experimental Windows build 
> should hopefully be available before the end of 2016."
>
>
> as install kdenlive on windows is wished by many and very difficult 
> nowaday, what is the status of this part of the project?
>
> appimage or similar self contained format is very friendly, because it 
> allows easily to cope with the kedenlive team work and if necessary 
> report bugs, when doing so with standard distro is difficult and nearly 
> impossible on windows
>
> kdenlive rocks :-)
> thanks
> jdd
>