Building kdevelop on Windows 10 with MinGW/gcc

Russell Haley russ.haley at gmail.com
Mon Jul 27 05:20:57 BST 2020


On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 8:21 PM Chris <DeveloperChris at rebel.com.au> wrote:

> Hi I ran in to the same problem
>
> You need to use MSVC to build it. MingW is not supported. :(
>
Okay, perhaps that documentation should be updated to reflect that? This is
from the community wiki:
https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Build_from_source/Windows

"Currently, Craft supports both the MinGW and Microsoft Visual Studio
(msvc) compiler. While MinGW can be installed by Craft, Visual Studio
<https://www.visualstudio.com/> must be installed independently by the
user."

Thanks for the link Aleix, I'll jump on that mailing list too.

I assume then "Craft supports both Mingw..." means mingw is supported on
unix-like platforms?

>
> Chris
> Rebel Software <http://www.rebel.com.au>
> On 27/07/2020 11:04 am, Aleix Pol wrote:
>
> Hi Russell,
> Adding the KDE Windows mailing list, in case they can help you.
>
> Best of luck!
> Aleix
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 1:07 AM Russell Haley <russ.haley at gmail.com> <russ.haley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to build on WIndows 10 using mingw and I am getting the following error:
>
> Craft               : C:\Users\russh\CraftRoot
> Version             : master
> ABI                 : windows-mingw_64-gcc
> Download directory  : C:\Users\russh\CraftRoot\download
> C:\Users\russh\CraftRoot> craft kdevelop
> Craft               : C:\Users\russh\CraftRoot
> Version             : master
> ABI                 : windows-mingw_64-gcc
> Download directory  : C:\Users\russh\CraftRoot\download
> C:\Users\russh\CraftRoot\etc\blueprints\locations\craft-blueprints-kde\extragear\kdevelop\kdevelop\kdevelop.py failed:
> extragear/kdevelop/kdevelop requries libs/qt5/qtwebengine, but it is not supported on 2
>
> I'm following the instructions found here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Build_from_source/Windows
>
> Any advice other than installing VC++ would be appreciated? I use VS and VC++ at work and I have nothing against it, but I'm trying to build out my own toolset with llvm-mingw [1]. I can cross compile on FreeBSD if necessary, but I'd like to be able to pick at the kdevelop code on my laptop.
>
> Regards,
> Russ
>
> [1] Check out my beta toolset at http://winlua.net. The JamPlus build system doesn't work and I don't have a good debugger interface yet (lldb-mi), but the compiler works well with KDevelop. I'm considering adopting kdevelop as my "Standard IDE". The WinLua Compiler (WLC) is a binary installation of Martin Storsjo's excellent llvm-mingw package found here (https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw).
>
>
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