Building kdevelop on Windows 10 with MinGW/gcc

[Kevin Funk]

On Monday, 27 July 2020 06:20:57 CEST Russell Haley wrote:
> 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."

Heya,

QtWebEngine cannot be built under MinGW. That does not imply that other 
packages cannot be built under MinGW.

What we could do is to add a note that says "if you need QtWebEngine, please 
note that MinGW is not supported <link to QTBUG>.

In fact, I just added this here:
  https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Build_from_source/
Windows#Setting_up_a_compiler

Regards,
Kevin


> 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\ext
> > ragear\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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Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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