Getting Started/Build/Windows/Cross-Compiling: Difference between revisions

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    == Icecream ==
    One of the joys of cross-compiling is the possibility to use an icecream cluster to speed up compilation.
    For Debian Etch, you can get an icecream environment from here:
    ftp://ftp.kdab.net/pub/gpg4win/devtools/debian-etch-mingw32-icecream-env.tar.gz
    (If you want to create your own environment: icecc-create-env does a good job except that it packages the wrong as. /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-as is needed)
    The bin/ dir with symlinks from i586-mingw32msvc-* to /usr/bin/icecc:
    ftp://ftp.kdab.net/pub/gpg4win/devtools/icecc-mingw-bin.tar.bz2
    Untar icecc-mingw-bin.tar.bz2 to icecc-mingw-bin
    Then set the following environment variables:
    <code bash>
    export PATH=/path/to/icecc-mingw-bin/bin:$PATH
    export ICECC_CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc
    export ICECC_CXX=i586-mingw32msvc-g++
    export ICECC_VERSION=/path/to/debian-etch-mingw32-icecream-env.tar.gz
    <code>
    (Re-)run cmake and have fun.

    Revision as of 08:10, 22 May 2008

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    cross compiling is still unstable
    Tip
    Note: This page is about KDE 4. It isn't applicable for KDE 3 development.

    Basic tools

    MinGw

    Install mingw for linux, on debian the packages are called mingw32, mingw32-binutils, mingw32-runtime, you need to install mingw32 with gcc/g++ 3 and not 4 since that doesn't work with kdelibs, debian testing/unstable has gcc 4 so i've installed mingw32 package from ubuntu repository

    Qt4 Kdesupport and dependencies

    You can install these dependencies(aspell, boost, dbus, qca etc..) from windows with the kdewin installer or manually download them from sourceforge mirrors

    Qt4 and KDE4 for linux

    You also need to have Qt4 and KDE4 already installed on linux, to use moc/uic/kde4automoc etc...

    Cmake

    To cross compile KDE you need CMake >= 2.5, you can get the last version from CVS

    • Create two files Toolchain-mingw32.cmake and mingw32-kdelibs.cmake with this contents and place them somewhere i.e. in your home

    Toolchain-mingw32.cmake

    1. the name of the target operating system

    SET(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME Windows)

    1. which compilers to use for C and C++

    SET(CMAKE_C_COMPILER i586-mingw32msvc-gcc) SET(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER i586-mingw32msvc-g++)

    1. here is the target environment located

    SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH /usr/i586-mingw32msvc /windows/kde4 )

    1. adjust the default behaviour of the FIND_XXX() commands:
    2. search headers and libraries in the target environment, search
    3. programs in the host environment

    set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PROGRAM NEVER) set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY ONLY) set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE ONLY)

    1. FindQt4.cmake querys qmake to get information, this doesn't work when crosscompiling

    set(KDE_PREFIX /windows/kde4) set(QT_BINARY_DIR /home/kdeuser/kde/src/qt-copy/bin) set(QT_LIBRARY_DIR ${KDE_PREFIX}/lib) set(QT_QTCORE_LIBRARY ${KDE_PREFIX}/lib/libQtCore4.a) set(QT_QTCORE_INCLUDE_DIR ${KDE_PREFIX}/include/QtCore) set(QT_MKSPECS_DIR ${KDE_PREFIX}/mkspecs) set(QT_MOC_EXECUTABLE ${QT_BINARY_DIR}/moc) set(QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE ${QT_BINARY_DIR}/qmake) set(QT_UIC_EXECUTABLE ${QT_BINARY_DIR}/uic)

    mingw32-kdelibs.cmake

    set(KDE_PREFIX /windows/kde4) set(KDE4_BIN_DIR /home/kdeuser/kde/bin)

    1. this one is used by FindKDE4.cmake to load FindKDE4Internal.cmake:

    set(KDE4_DATA_DIR ${KDE_PREFIX}/share/apps CACHE PATH "points to the apps directory of installed kdelibs")

    1. not sure about this one:

    set(KDEWIN_DIR ${KDE_PREFIX} CACHE PATH "what is it ?")

    1. disable some things:

    set(WITH_AVAHI OFF CACHE BOOL "Disabled") set(WITH_DNSSD OFF CACHE BOOL "Disabled") set(WITH_ENCHANT OFF CACHE BOOL "Disabled") set(WITH_FAM OFF CACHE BOOL "Disabled") set(WITH_GSSAPI OFF CACHE BOOL "Disabled") set(WITH_HSPELL OFF CACHE BOOL "Disabled") set(WITH_OpenEXR OFF CACHE BOOL "Disabled")

    1. use the binaries from native KDE4

    set(KDE4_KCFGC_EXECUTABLE ${KDE4_BIN_DIR}/kconfig_compiler CACHE PATH "") set(KDE4_AUTOMOC_EXECUTABLE ${KDE4_BIN_DIR}/kde4automoc CACHE PATH "") set(KDE4_MEINPROC_EXECUTABLE ${KDE4_BIN_DIR}/meinproc4 CACHE PATH "")
    adjust the values according to your setup

    Build kdelibs

    svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdelibs cd kdelibs mkdir build cd build cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=~/Toolchain-mingw32.cmake ..

    • you have to make a link to your kde4automoc and kconfig_compiler for linux in the bin directory

    ln -s /path/to/kde4automoc bin/ ln -s /path/to/kconfig_compiler bin/

    • since linux is case sensitive you have to make symbolic links for some headers

    cd /windows/kde4/include ln -s soprano Soprano

    • You will get an error in klauncher.moc about slotKDEInitData so go into kinit and do something like this(you need wine)

    rm *.moc ../bin/kde4automoc.exe /home/kdeuser/kde/src/KDE/kdelibs/build/kinit/klauncher_automoc.cpp /home/kdeuser/kde/src/KDE/kdelibs/kinit /home/kdeuser/kde/src/KDE/kdelibs/build/kinit /windows/kde4/bin/moc.exe and then do make as usual

    • Another error in kdewidgets because wine doesn't find some dll to run makekdewidgets.exe so either run the linux version manually like this
    makekdewidgets -o /home/kdeuser/kde/src/KDE/kdelibs/build/kdewidgets/kdewidgets.cpp /home/kdeuser/kde/src/KDE/kdelibs/kdewidgets/kde.widgets
    

    or symlink those missing library in your wine system32 folder(i haven't tested it but it should work)

    Build kdepimlibs

    This is easy :) svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdepimlibs cd kdepimlibs mkdir build cd build cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=~/Toolchain-mingw32.cmake -C ~/mingw32-kdelibs.cmake .. make make install

    Build kdebase

    This is easy :) svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdebase cd kdebase mkdir build cd build cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=~/Toolchain-mingw32.cmake -C ~/mingw32-kdelibs.cmake .. make make install

    Icecream

    One of the joys of cross-compiling is the possibility to use an icecream cluster to speed up compilation.

    For Debian Etch, you can get an icecream environment from here:

    ftp://ftp.kdab.net/pub/gpg4win/devtools/debian-etch-mingw32-icecream-env.tar.gz

    (If you want to create your own environment: icecc-create-env does a good job except that it packages the wrong as. /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-as is needed)

    The bin/ dir with symlinks from i586-mingw32msvc-* to /usr/bin/icecc:

    ftp://ftp.kdab.net/pub/gpg4win/devtools/icecc-mingw-bin.tar.bz2

    Untar icecc-mingw-bin.tar.bz2 to icecc-mingw-bin

    Then set the following environment variables:

    export PATH=/path/to/icecc-mingw-bin/bin:$PATH export ICECC_CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc export ICECC_CXX=i586-mingw32msvc-g++ export ICECC_VERSION=/path/to/debian-etch-mingw32-icecream-env.tar.gz

    (Re-)run cmake and have fun.