I was wondering if anybody who's had success building Krita on windows can lend me a hand. I've tried everything I can think of, but am unable to get a newer version (2.3+) running in windows.

I've tried:
Kubuntu in VM
Ubuntu in VM
KDE for windows
Emerge
Cygwin

I've gotten furthest in Emerge, I think, but still can't get it to compile without spitting out fatal errors.

Where should I focus my efforts or should I just give up at this point? I'm only asking at the end of several fruitless weeks of work trying to get this god forsaken source to compile.

I've been studying, and trying to learn and use as many different tools as I hear about, but i'm just very frustrated and disheartened at this point. I'm not afraid of doing more work, but please...just a hint or something! gah!

Thanks,
Flynn

Yes, it's very frustrating at this point. None of the developers have Windows, I'm afraid. There is one Calligra developer who uses windows, and he has managed to compile Krita on Windows, but there are frequent breakages still. Krita really is not ready for Windows in any meaningful way.

However, there's a project starting soon to bring Calligra to windows with an installer and everything -- and that should contain Krita. The intention is to provide releases as well as daily builds. For now, unless you are an experienced C++ developer willing to help, I'd advise not to try.

As for running Krita in a VM, that's possible, but you will lack some features and painting will never be really smooth.

It's still not going to be optimal, but you could make a live usb stick and run it from there. I save usb stick specifically, because you can set it to use storage space, so you can install / compile krita on it and still have it be there after you reboot. I know that Kubuntu's "usb creator" has this functionality, so all it should take would be downloading the iso, burning it a cd with Nero or suchlike, running usb creator with a usb stick in the drive and pointing it at the kubuntu iso and telling it to use all the spare disk space (it's just one radio button click). After that you just install krita as normal and reboot to the usb stick.

boudewijn wrote:...I'd advise not to try.

Thanks for your input. What you said above is pretty much the sense i've been getting from various forums, etc. As far as windows goes, I think I'll just go back to lurking, and hoping for some breakthrough, then take another stab if I see something that excites me.

Kubuntiac wrote:..still have it be there after you reboot...

Thank you, too!

I tried something similar to what you describe using a usb installer called lili (linux live), and was able to get ubuntu and kubuntu to run off a 4gig stick, but found that when i tried to install krita through the package manager, it didn't give me a working build of krita. The prog just didn't open. ever.

I didn't do an install though, just loaded the iso and used the "try ubuntu" under persistent mode. which I thought would work. Maybe I'll try to do this again with the built-in usb installer as you said.

I'd love to evaluate this program, and maybe this will get me by until 2.4 releases.

Thanks again, guys!
Flynn

P.S. I see you both all over the forum. thanks for all you've contributed here. I've learned a lot from you.