Projects/KDE on Windows: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:34, 18 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, or other parts of the project)
Tools (required or useful)
Porting Guidelines
Meetings
Windows CE
Source code in the KDE git: emerge

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

Qt5/KDE5 status

update dbus to nightly branch
get kdelibs building - what about split packages?
use updated mingw
disable dbusmenu-qt on Windows by default
fix Qt5 dependencies on all packages

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 **[http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/dashboard/release/ Release-Series]
 **[http://winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/dashboard/ master]
+== Qt5/KDE5 status ==
+* update dbus to nightly branch
+* get kdelibs building - what about split packages?
+* use updated mingw
+* disable dbusmenu-qt on Windows by default
+* fix Qt5 dependencies on all packages
 ==Further reading, and support ressources==