Building windows executables

[Jack]

On 6/16/20 7:01 AM, Chris wrote:
> Sorry not QT6, QT5.6 which is listed in the cmake as the required 
> version. Or is that the minimum version?
Minimum.  I believe 5.15 is available on Windows.  I also have only a VM 
for Windows, but will fire it up again when I have time.  Last time, I 
also did not succeed in compiling KMyMoney.
>
> 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 does seem high, but possible.  What I generally do is to first use 
the command for craft which just outputs which packages it is going to 
install, and then do them one at a time.  That way it is easier to know 
where the problems are, although it does take more of your time.
>
> 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.
>>