Compiling Under Windows Obsolete?

[hardy]

Hi,

I searched for instructions on compiling under Windows but only came up with
the following:

http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/525

http://archive.vn/SXx99

The first is a broken link and the second is very old. Looking back at the
discussion on this topic it seems to stop about 10 years ago. There's
probably a very good reason for this but I would like to know the background
please.

- Has it become technically impossible to do so?
- Or has it simply become redundant due to compilation for all platforms
possible under Linux?

Thank you in advance.



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[Gilles Caulier-4]

Hi,

Compiling under Windows is certainly possible, but to be honest, we will not do it since many years now. All is cross-compiled under Linux.

When i said all, it's from the start to the installer. There is no Windows stuff used in this task. This have the most advantage to simplified the workflow : all is done on the same computer used for the main development under Linux.

No Windows, no Microsoft compiler, no extra proprietary libraries, no virus risk. Well a pleasure for a developers.

If you is interested, all is explained here :

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/project/bundles/mxe/README

Note : The MacOS bundle still compiled under MacOS, but it's technically possible to cross compile with clang under Linux, there is no framework as MXE cross compiler for Windows available for Apple device.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le ven. 22 mars 2019 à 21:07, hardy <[hidden email]> a écrit :

Hi,

I searched for instructions on compiling under Windows but only came up with
the following:

http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/525

http://archive.vn/SXx99

The first is a broken link and the second is very old. Looking back at the
discussion on this topic it seems to stop about 10 years ago. There's
probably a very good reason for this but I would like to know the background
please.

- Has it become technically impossible to do so?
- Or has it simply become redundant due to compilation for all platforms
possible under Linux?

Thank you in advance.



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