[Okular-devel] Lastest Okular in Windows

[Paul Manners]

Hi Albert,

I tried their IRC channel a few times at different times of the day but
didn't get any responses.  I didn't want to cross-post but I'll give it a
try in the next day or two if I don't hear anything back here.

Thanks for the response, and apologies if my question is slightly OT for
this list.

Cheers
Paul

On 8 November 2014 17:46, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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