[Kmymoney-devel] KMyMoney on Windows

[Cristian Oneţ]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Cristian Oneţ <onet.cristian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday I've managed to compile and run KMyMoney on Windows (see the
> attached screenshot). I'll try to summarize all the issues I've
> observed while doing this (some of them were already fixed yesterday).
> First of all I would like to give some kudos for the KDE on Windows
> project they have made developing KDE on Windows really easy (see the
> emerge tool like on Gentoo).
> I have compiled with msvc2008 and did not used gcc on purpose (I've
> wanted to see what does another compiler has to say about the code :)
> ). This lead to the first group of issues caused by gcc specific
> entities in the code. So here is the list:
> 1. '__attribute__', '__func__' and '__PRETTY_FUNCTION__'
> 2. K3Process is no longer supported on windows but only libkgpg uses
> it and it will be ported by Thomas so this is OK (also we have to
> remove the include from some dialog which does not uses it)
> 3. When linking kmymoney we don't specify KDE_UTILS lib and QT_SQL_LIB in cmake
> 4. Really strange code like 'if ((periodType() == "day") and (mult()
> == "1")) return("daily");' (in GncRecurrence::getFrequency()); since
> when can 'and' be used in C++ :) ?
OK, I've checked the standard and it seems that 'and' is the same as
'&&' I didn't know that.

> 5. D-Bus another instance check uses 'getpid' we should do this in a
> more portable way (find some qt function that returns the pid of the
> current process)
> 6. the compiler complained about all the #warning 'Port to KDE' stuff
> being invalid directives
>
> That's all :) (it's shorter than I thought it will be) I hope I didn't
> forget anything because while writing this I don't have the diff.
> I didn't manage to open a file yet but that has nothing to do with
> kmymoney. I get some 'Could not talk to klauncher' error after the
> D-Bus checking which causes D-Bus to crash (this is a KDE runtime
> environment problem).
>
> I'll get back with this subject once I'll manage to open a file :).
>
> Regards,
> Cristian
>