Kdevelop on Windows

[Adam Wood]

Hi Milian, 

Thanks for the info.

I'm quite happy to spend some time making it work, and if I ever get there I'll be sure to share the results.  I'd love to help in this effort, I just need a helping hand to get into it.

I'm not expecting it to be a perfect experience, the key features for me would be managing the project with CMake and the code editor features like auto-complete.  For all the benefits of Visual Studio whenever anyone raises intellisense as a benefit I have to chuckle.  Compared to my development on Linux it's much less reliable.

I have run kbuildsycoca, whether I've run it correctly with everything in the right place is something I'm less sure about.  Actually, I'm pretty convinced it's something in this area that is tripping me up as I have a mostly working kdevelop, I just appear to be missing several docking panes and menu items.

Do you have any suggestions for figuring out what is a complete set of .desktop files (and anything else)?

Thanks,

Adam


-----Original Message-----
From: kdevelop-bounces at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de [mailto:kdevelop-bounces at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de] On Behalf Of Milian Wolff
Sent: 10 November 2011 16:23
To: kdevelop at kdevelop.org
Subject: Re: Kdevelop on Windows

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
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Milian Wolff
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