Building windows executables

[Chris]

Sorry not QT6, QT5.6 which is listed in the cmake as the required version. 
Or is that the minimum version?

I did setup a craft environment.

I tried compiling kdevelop so I could use it as an IDE but it failed on 
QTWebengine. said it was an ignored package whatever that means I couldnt 
find a way to "unignore" it so I tried to get kmymoney "craft kmymoney". 
However when it was taking hours and eventually crashed my machine by 
consuming all available disk space of over 20Gb. I assumed something was 
wrong and having tried to use emerge many years ago to do the same thing I 
was not looking forward to days of debugging the build environment.

That was the last thing I tried. I thought there must be a better way.

I had not heard of the OBS - interesting

Chris


On 16/06/2020 7:43 pm, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Dienstag, 16. Juni 2020 06:44:11 CEST Chris wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am looking to build kmymoney to run on windows and possibly OSX as I have
>> a need to make some customisations.
> On MacOSX Dawid Wrobel recently setup a development environment lately and made
> some changes so that KMyMoney is working there again.
>
>> However I have had a lot of difficulty getting an environment on windows.
>> there are so many missing dependencies including qt 6. qt does not even
>> provide that in its archives for qtcreator!
> Qt6?  That is not (yet) supported/required by KMyMoney. Should be working with
> Qt 5.9 to 5.15 AFAIU.
>
>> So I wondered what is the best approach. Should I build on windows (I am
>> still running 7) or should I cross compile?
>>
>> Can anyone give some advice?
> A generic windows build can be made with 'craft' as build environment. Instructions
> on craft can be found here:
>
>    https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Build_from_source/Windows
>
> >From what I understand, it now requires either MinGW or MSVC2019. I have tried it lately
> with MSVC2019 but my VM was slow and I am not so familiar with the Windows details. I got
> it to compile at some point but was not able to create an installer in it. Maybe, you
> have more luck.
>
> Ralph Habacker maintains a cross-compile build on OBS (OpenSUSE Build Service). So a
> cross compile is also possible. This works using MinGW
>
>> What environment do you use to build windows binaries?
> Since my home is windows free (at least in terms of computer OSes) except the above
> mentioned VM, I don't do full windows based builds. My test above was enough to create
> the libofx.dll and copy that onto a windows machine where I had installed KMyMoney from
> https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/KMyMoney_Release_win64/
>
> It fails to compile, but that seems due to some Akonadi problem (dependency).
>
> Hope that helps. If you get something working, I am happy to verify instructions on how
> to set it up with detailed instructions on my VM.
>