KPhotoAlbum on Windows?

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

On 09/12/2024 09.23, Tobias Leupold wrote:
> 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!

Correction: I built it on Linux under 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
>>>