Kdevelop on Windows

[Milian Wolff]

On Thursday 10 November 2011 10:45:20 Adam Wood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a big fan of Kdevelop on my Linux box and I've recently been looking
> into getting it going on Windows.  I've found various references on the
> Kdevelop home page, in this mailing list and generally on the web that
> suggest it should work with Windows but I've just not been able to get it
> working.

It works in the sense of: It compiles and some of its features work.

it does not work in the sense of it compares to the Linux quality of KDevelop. 
Esp. cmake support and building, debugging etc. pp. are still broken or simply 
non-existant (no gdb on windows).

> Has anyone been successful at running Kdevelop on Windows?
> 
> I've tried to find binaries from the KDE on Windows project but there don't
> appear to be any available in the releases I've tried.

Because a) I'm slacking as a release manager and did not yet create a 4.3 
release (which will take time) and b) because KDevelop on windows is still 
unstable (see above).

> I've even built it from recent sources and got a bit further.  I have a
> kdevelop app that will start up and I can create new documents but I can't
> create projects or open existing projects.  This is not because it crashes
> or anything, it's just that the menu options don't appear to be present. 
> I'm not an expert on KDE's .desktop files but I believe I have them all
> installed to the right place.

Did you run kbuildsycoca? Generally, you should ask Patrick Spendrin or 
Andreas Holzammer, they are the Windows Gurus I know which got KDevelop to 
semi-running state on Windows.

> If anyone on the list has managed to get this working I'd really like to
> know how.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Generally keep in mind: Getting it running won't give you much if you are not 
willing to spend some time to get it into a usable state. Note thought that I 
and others would greatly appreciate it, if someone with time and Windows 
knowledge would finally step up and bring it into a good shape.

bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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