[Okular-devel] Lastest Okular in Windows

[Albert Astals Cid]

Hi, i think this question is probably better suited in the kde-windows mailing 
list than here.

Have you tried there?

Cheers,
  Albert

El Dissabte, 8 de novembre de 2014, a les 10:24:02, Paul Manners va escriure:
> 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