Yaakov (Cygwin/X) schrieb:
> Ports users,
>
> As I have been dropping hints regarding KDE for Cygwin 1.7, let me 
> explain where things are holding now and what my plans are.
>
> As you may be aware, KDE 3.5 (which shipped in Ports for 1.5) has been 
> replaced in most distributions by KDE 4.2.  But there are still a number 
> of KDE-based programs -- and even a few that were officially part of KDE 
> 3.x) which have yet to be ported to KDE4.
>
> I have built almost all of KDE 4.2.4 and, for the most part, 
> applications are running well.  One thing that still needs some work is 
> kdebase-workspace (the desktop itself); I'm still working on separating 
> the Linux-specific (which won't work on Cygwin) from the X11-specific 
> parts (which should).
>   
nice to hear that there are ongoing efforts :-)
> At this point, since kde.org apps are mostly ported to KDE4 (or replaced 
> by new ones, e.g. kpdf->okular), it only makes sense that we ship these 
> over 3.x.  As for KDE3-dependent apps, we still need kdelibs and parts 
> of kdebase in order to use them.
>
> But here is the catch: KDE has made no effort to make 3.x and 4.x devel 
> files parallel-installable; link libraries 
examples ?
> and even a few devel-only programs (e.g. kconfig_compiler) have the same 
> names.  
It is possible to give related tools a different name on the cygwin 
platform.

In the kde buildsystem the variable KDE4_KCFGC_EXECUTABLE (located in 
kdelibs/cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internals.cmake) contains the name of the 
config compiler.

The executable name of the config compiler could be changed in 
kdelibs\kdecore\kconfig_compiler\CMakeLists.txt by adding an OUTPUT_NAME 
property.

You may file a change request with a patch for those tools on 
kde-core-devel.

Regards
 Ralf


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