Building kdevelop on Windows 10 with MinGW/gcc

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Tuesday July 28 2020 21:14:29 Russell Haley wrote:

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

It's been a while for me, but doesn't MinGW interoperate with MSVC in ways cygwin cannot, allowing you to build against the official Qt packages?

I'd still advise to go the QtWebKit route because KDevelop is resource-hungry enough by itself. No need to add to that by embedding what's basically a full-fledged webbrowser (which means a mini-OS nowadays) just to do some documentation browsing... AFAIK the popup/contextual documentation you get by hovering the cursor over source code does not use the web rendering engine so this feature should not be affected by the choice of engine.

FWIW, I presume the manpage plugin isn't of much interest on MSWin?

R.