Projects/KDE on Windows

"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
• 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

(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

• [email protected] 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• http://kdelibs.com (former KDElibs/Windows site, now outdated, aimed at ISVs)