Building kdevelop on Windows 10 with MinGW/gcc

[Chris]

Hi I ran in to the same problem

You need to use MSVC to build it. MingW is not supported. :(


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> 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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