Difference between revisions of "Projects/KDE on Windows"

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"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

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+The [http://windows.kde.org/ 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.
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 *[[/FAQ|Frequently answered questions]]
-==Development==
+==User Installation==
-*[[Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Windows|Build KDE 4 on Windows]] using ''emerge''
 *[[/Installation|Install KDE 4 on Windows]] using the KDE Installer for Windows
+==Development==
+*[[Getting_Started/Build/Windows/emerge|Build KDE 4 on Windows]] using ''emerge''
 *[[Development/Tutorials/Debugging/Debugging_on_MS_Windows|Debugging on MS Windows]]
-*TechBase pages related to MS Windows ports of KDE applications and libraries:
+*[[/Development Workflow|Development Workflow]]
-**[[/Missing features of kdelibs|Missing features of kdelibs]]
+*[[/Issues |Issues, TODOs, and status info]] (on individual apps, libraries, or other parts of the project)
-**[[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]]
-*[[/Meetings|Meetings]]
+*[http://community.kde.org/KDE_Windows/Meetings Meetings]
-*[[/Bugs/4.3|Bugs in 4.3 release not found in bugzilla]]
+*[[/Windows CE|Windows CE]]
-*[[/TODOs|TODOs]]
+*Source code in the KDE git: [http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=emerge.git emerge]
-*[[Windows CE]]
-==Resources==
+=== Information for application developers ===
+*[[/Compiling_Applications|Compiling (third party) KDE apps on Windows]]
+*[[/Packaging|Packaging / Distributing KDE apps on Windows]]
+===(Release) status info===
+*Current release target is KDE 4.9 ([http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-windows&m=134856419908374&w=2]). Recently it has been suggested to skip to 4.10, however ([http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-windows&m=135784778022201&w=2])
+*Nightly builds (logs):
+**[http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/dashboard/release/ Release-Series]
+**[http://winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/dashboard/ master]
+==Further reading, and support ressources==
 *[mailto:kde-windows@kde.org kde-windows@kde.org] mailing list: [https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows  subscribe], [http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-windows&r=1&w=2 archives]
 *[irc://irc.freenode.net/kde-windows #kde-windows] channel on irc.freenode.net
-*Source code in the KDE Subversion: [http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/kdewin/ kdewin]
+*Related blogs: [http://aheinecke.blogspot.de/ aheinecke], [http://saroengels.blogspot.com/ saroengels], Not active: [http://chehrlic.blogspot.com chehrlic], [http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/104 jstaniek]
-==External Resources==
-*Related blogs: [http://chehrlic.blogspot.com chehrlic], [http://saroengels.blogspot.com/ saroengels], [http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/104 jstaniek]
 *[[/In the Press|KDE on Windows in the press]]
-*[http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/deployment-windows.html Deploying a Qt Application on Windows] (qt.nokia.com)
-*http://kdelibs.com (former KDElibs/Windows site, now outdated, aimed at ISVs)
 [[Category:MS Windows]]