[Okular-devel] Lastest Okular in Windows

[Paul Manners]

Hi Albert,

>From reading more KDE documentation, I understand that there is now a
switch to KF5 as the underlying libraries of KDE applications.  I see that
you have made quite a few commits to the okular git repository - are you
able to tell me what the status is of Okular and KF5 integration/rework?
I'm assuming that to get the latest version of Okular working (whether on
Windows or Linux), that I would have to make sure that all the KF5
dependencies are satisfied, right?

regards
Paul

On 8 November 2014 20:04, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> 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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