Difference between revisions of "Projects/KDE on Windows"

Revision as of 18:24, 11 January 2013

"KDE 4 libraries and applications are available to you, no matter if you are a commercial developer, manager or free software hacker. You are invited to not only just use the toolkit - you can contribute your own solutions and improvements to the KDE community."

Konqi, the KDE mascot now also supporting MS Windows

The KDE on Windows Initiative is an ongoing project to port the KDE applications to MS Windows. Currently supported versions of Windows are XP, Vista and 7.

Overview

Presentations
How to Help / Join
windows.kde.org
Maintainers of Windows version of particular module or application
Frequently answered questions

User Installation

Install KDE 4 on Windows using the KDE Installer for Windows

Development

Build KDE 4 on Windows using emerge
Debugging on MS Windows
Development Workflow
Issues, TODOs, and status info on individual apps, libraries, components
Tools (required or useful)
Porting Guidelines
Meetings
Windows CE

Information for application developers

(Release) status info

Current release target is KDE 4.9 ([1]). Recently it has been suggested to skip to 4.10, however ([2])
Nightly builds (logs):
- Release-Series
- master

Resources

kde-windows@kde.org mailing list: subscribe, archives
#kde-windows channel on irc.freenode.net
Source code in the KDE git: emerge

External Resources

Related blogs: aheinecke, saroengels, Not active: chehrlic, jstaniek
KDE on Windows in the press
Deploying a Qt Application on Windows (qt.nokia.com)
http://kdelibs.com (former KDElibs/Windows site, now outdated, aimed at ISVs)

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 *[[Development/Tutorials/Debugging/Debugging_on_MS_Windows|Debugging on MS Windows]]
 *[[/Development Workflow|Development Workflow]]
-*TechBase pages related to MS Windows ports of KDE applications and libraries:
+*[[/Issues | Issues, TODOs, and status info on individual apps, libraries, components]]
-**[[/Missing features of kdelibs|Missing features of kdelibs]]
-**[[Projects/PIM/MS_Windows|KDE PIM on MS Windows]]
-**[[Projects/Digikam/MS_Windows|Digikam on MS Windows]]
-*[[/Issues|Issues]]
-**[[/Issues/emerge|Issues, thoughts and jobs for emerge]]
-**[[/Issues/kdewin-installer|Issues and thoughts for KDEWin-Installer]]
-**[[/Issues/MSVC|Using MSVC compiler, debugger and editor]]
 *[[/Tools|Tools]] (required or useful)
 *[[/Porting Guidelines|Porting Guidelines]]
 *[http://community.kde.org/KDE_Windows/Meetings Meetings]
-*[[/TODOs|TODOs]]
 *[[/Windows CE|Windows CE]]