Fwd: Building kdevelop on Windows 10 with MinGW/gcc

[Russell Haley]

Thanks everyone, I have been enjoying cross compiling stuff so that's why I
asked. I'll just build it at work with Visual Studio.

Cheers,
Russ

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 2:56 AM Kevin Funk <kfunk at kde.org> wrote:

> On Monday, 27 July 2020 01:07:27 CEST Russell Haley 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\extra
> > gear\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.
>
> Heya,
>
> QtWebEngine under Windows requires Visual Studio unfortunately, MinGW is
> not
> supported, see:
>   https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-42725
>
> Cross-compiling KDevelop from FreeBSD/Linux was never attempted and
> personally
> I would not go down this rabbit hole in case you feel familiar on Windows
> anyway, and would like to /work/ on Windows using KDevelop.
>
> For non-enterprise use cases you could just use MSVC Community edition,
> which
> is free of charge.
>
> Alternatively, you can try what RJVB suggested: Try building KDevelop
> against
> QtWebKit using the CMake arguments RJVB provided; but doing so using KDE
> Craft
> requires changing the Craft recipes (more involved). You'll need to add
> the
> QtWebKit dep and then also disable finding QtWebEngine. For instance, look
> at
> kate.py inside craft-kde-blueprints.git:
>
> ```
> kde/applications/kate/kate.py
> 51:            self.subinfo.options.configure.args += " -
> DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_KF5Plasma=ON"
> ```
>
> All untested terrain though.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Kevin
>
>
> > 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).
>
>
> --
> Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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