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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
• TechBase pages related to MS Windows ports of KDE applications and libraries:
  • Missing features of kdelibs
  • KDE PIM on MS Windows
  • Digikam on MS Windows
• Issues
  • Issues, thoughts and jobs for emerge
  • Issues and thoughts for KDEWin-Installer
  • Using MSVC compiler, debugger and editor
• Tools (required or useful)
• Porting Guidelines
• Meetings
• TODOs
• Windows CE

Information for application developers

• Compiling (third party) KDE apps on Windows
• Packaging / Distributing KDE apps on Windows

Resources

• kde-windows@kde.org mailing list: subscribe, archives
• #kde-windows channel on irc.freenode.net
• Source code in the KDE Subversion: kdewin
• Nightly builds: dashboard

External Resources

• Related blogs: chehrlic, saroengels, 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• http://kdelibs.com (former KDElibs/Windows site, now outdated, aimed at ISVs)