KPhotoAlbum on Windows?

[Teemu Hämäläinen]

On 8.12.2024 16.31, Tobias Leupold wrote:
> E-Mail von Teemu Hämäläinen vom Sonntag, 8. Dezember 2024, 14:17:30 MEZ:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Once upon a time, there was a big promise that Qt/KDE would provide easy
>> cross-platform portability...
>> If I remember correctly, years ago there also was some guidance on how
>> to compile/run KPhotoAlbum on Windows, but I have searched those now
>> without success.
>> Any pointers for this - how to compile, or information if there any
>> clear showstoppers (libraries used that are not available on Win)?
>>
> I can only speak of me: Concerning KPA and KDE, I'm a Linux-only user. It may
> be possible to compile KPA along with the needed dependencies on Windows as
> well, but I have no clue about that. Building a plain Qt program on Linux,
> Windows and macOS is not a big deal, I do that e.g. with muckturnier.org. But
> KPA depends on all kind of KDE stuff, so I think it's more complicated.
>
>
> Cheers, Tobias
Thank you. I actually managed to get quite far in my effort here, as 
Google found me this very helpful guide: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpdg3grSCDg
This eventually guided me to this page: https://community.kde.org/Craft

With the Craft, I was able to compile a build many KDE packages and 
applications - I had e.g. Kate and KCalc running on my Windows machine 
in under 30 minutes from starting that Youtube video.
There was a blueprint available for KPhotoAlbum as well, and it got 
quite far with the dependencies. But the progress was unfortunately 
stopped with "libkipi".

First, it was trying to find libkipi from 
"download.kde.org/stable/release-service/24.08.3/", but it wasn't found 
there.
I was able to change the package version to "master", where it was 
found, but it seems that the source for libkipi is for Qt5 - and with 
Craft one needs to choose either Qt5 or Qt6 (based on my very limited 
understanding), so with KPa's latest being Qt6, it was incompatible. But 
a very promising start in just couple of hours, nonetheless.

I doubt that this Craft-related issue is specific to Windows., and as 
Craft is available also for Linux, I was wondering if it is possible to 
get KPhotoAlbum "officially" supported and available through Craft as well?

Probably the issue I faced with libkipi would be easily solvable by 
someone more experienced in KDE development... and supporting 
Craft-based builds would be an extremely easy way to achieve the 
cross-platform reach for this excellent software.

Thanks,
Teemu