El Dissabte, 8 de novembre de 2014, a les 18:26:45, Paul Manners va escriure: > Hi Albert, > > I tried their IRC channel a few times at different times of the day but > didn't get any responses. I didn't want to cross-post but I'll give it a > try in the next day or two if I don't hear anything back here. > > Thanks for the response, and apologies if my question is slightly OT for > this list.
Don't worry, it's not off topic, it's just that not many of use have much/any experience building Okular on Windows and i think the kde on windows people have more (not sure if they hang around here or not). Cheers, Albert > > Cheers > Paul > > On 8 November 2014 17:46, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: > > Hi, i think this question is probably better suited in the kde-windows > > mailing > > list than here. > > > > Have you tried there? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Albert > > > > El Dissabte, 8 de novembre de 2014, a les 10:24:02, Paul Manners va > > > > escriure: > > > Good day, > > > > > > I'm wanting to try out the latest version of Okular in Windows. I've > > > > spent > > > > > some time reading though the documentation on KDE for Windows Initiative > > > site as well the okular website, forums, IRC and mailing lists. I'm > > > > trying > > > > > to find a path of least resistance but the details I've found are from > > > posts that go back quite some time, so I'm not sure of their validity. > > > > The > > > > > same goes for the documentation, where the timestamps when they were > > > last > > > modified are also from a few years back. > > > > > > My findings so far are: > > > > > > - There's no new release of KDE for Windows that includes the latest > > > version of Okular. The last release was May 2013 with KDE 4.10.2. It's > > > not clear to me if this project has gone into hibernation or if it's > > > just > > > that there have been build issues and bugs along the way with the more > > > recent version of KDE. Either way, it appears I would have to do a > > > > custom > > > > > build of KDE 4.14.2 in order to get the latest release of Okular on > > > > Windows. > > > > > - With doing a build in Windows, the key thing to me seems to be the > > > > choice > > > > > of build system: either MSVC or MinGW. I don't see any theoretical > > > > reason > > > > > why the latest version of VS (2013) would not work, but from my research > > > one would definitely not want to go with anything less than VS2008 or > > > VS2010. Use of the emerge tool seems to be the way to go. I'm most > > > familiar with GNU tool chain so that would be my preference, but was not > > > able to find out whether there is less pain going the GNU or MS route. > > > I > > > do have a requirement to make this work in OS X, but that is only > > > > something > > > > > I will look at in the future and dependent on whether I can test Okular > > > > out > > > > > in Windows. > > > > > > Any pointers or validation of my current assessment of the situation > > > > would > > > > > be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Paul > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Okular-devel mailing list > > Okular-devel@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel _______________________________________________ Okular-devel mailing list Okular-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel
