[Okular-devel] Lastest Okular in Windows

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dissabte, 8 de novembre de 2014, a les 18:26:45, Paul Manners va escriure:
> 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.

Don't worry, it's not off topic, it's just that not many of use have much/any 
experience building Okular on Windows and i think the kde on windows people 
have more (not sure if they hang around here or not).

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> 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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