KPhotoAlbum on Windows?

[Tobias Leupold]

Am 09.12.24 um 07:40 schrieb Jesper K. Pedersen:
> Morning.
> 
> An alternative option to building KPhotoAlbum natively for windows is to 
> use WSL (Windows Subsystem Linux IIRC).
> I did that when I was stuck on windows like 3 years back. The only thing 
> that worked badly for me back then was video playback.
> 
> Since then, however, WSL2 came out with much improved performance for 
> graphics, so that option might work much better today.
> 
> Cheers
> Jesper.

Whoah, the project founder himself built the thing on Windows!
So maybe, you're lucky ;-)

After all, it would be good to also reach people on Windows -- if we
actually can assure that it works fine.

> On 08/12/2024 14.17, Teemu Hämäläinen wrote:
>> 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 have around 60000 images annotated with KPhotoalbum. I'm happy 
>> running it on Linux, but part of my family would need it to be 
>> accessible on Windows as well.
>>
>> An acceptable alternative approach would be to get guidance on how to 
>> automatically transfer the tagging information from KPA to some 
>> similar application running on Windows.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Teemu
>>