[Okular-devel] Lastest Okular in Windows

[Paul Manners]

Good day,

I'm wanting to try out the latest version of Okular in Windows.  I've spent
some time reading though the documentation on KDE for Windows Initiative
site as well the okular website, forums, IRC and mailing lists.  I'm trying
to find a path of least resistance but the details I've found are from
posts that go back quite some time, so I'm not sure of their validity.  The
same goes for the documentation, where the timestamps when they were last
modified are also from a few years back.

My findings so far are:

- There's no new release of KDE for Windows that includes the latest
version of Okular.  The last release was May 2013 with KDE 4.10.2.  It's
not clear to me if this project has gone into hibernation or if it's just
that there have been build issues and bugs along the way with the more
recent version of KDE.  Either way, it appears I would have to do a custom
build of KDE 4.14.2 in order to get the latest release of Okular on Windows.

- With doing a build in Windows, the key thing to me seems to be the choice
of build system: either MSVC or MinGW.  I don't see any theoretical reason
why the latest version of VS (2013) would not work, but from my research
one would definitely not want to go with anything less than VS2008 or
VS2010.  Use of the emerge tool seems to be the way to go.  I'm most
familiar with GNU tool chain so that would be my preference, but was not
able to find out whether there is less pain going the GNU or MS route.  I
do have a requirement to make this work in OS X, but that is only something
I will look at in the future and dependent on whether I can test Okular out
in Windows.

Any pointers or validation of my current assessment of the situation would
be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Paul
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