Windows port?
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Both MLT and kde libs are now available for (or at least compile fine on) Windows, so why no Windows port? All other major multimedia apps from KDE, for example Krita or Amarok are available for Windows, so why kdenlive can't?
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Because it is a massive job to do and there is no-one in the developer team that keen on doing it.
I have thought about giving this a go. I did try and compile melt on windows many years ago and failed. Dan Dennedy (melt author) was quite discoraging on the likley hood of getting it to work. But things might have changed. Where would you start? Do you have any info on how to compile melt in windows? |
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Hello,
Actually this is a topic submitted for Summer of Code this year. Depending on topics & students selections, this work could start near end of june! Shotcut is already shipping builds with MLT & Qt5 on Windows & OsX, and KDE Frameworks as well, so we shouldn't have to do any work on our dependencies, only our code. Of course the first versions will probably be highly unstable... And we expect a highly increased user queries volume  Rgds, Vincent |
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Hello Vincent , since the subject is out of date a few months , as is that of the Windows version ? require much feedback ? Vincenzo |
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hi, here you'll find some more info on what has happened: https://kdenlive.org/node/9470 |
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Glad to see that a Windows port is in the works! Any idea when a beta could be released?
We are a TV station in Bangladesh using KDEnlive on over 25 professional journalist laptops. We'd be happy to help with testing. |
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From https://kdenlive.org/node/9471 :
Are there any instructions available on how one could compile Kdenlive for Windows using either Windows or Linux? I assume there are no plans to make closed-source compilation on Windows possible (for example with visual studio community edition). Please release a zip archive without installer. Much better for testing and quick distribution, especially for unstable software and for users without admin rights on restrictive windows systems (schools, universities and much more - please don't decide for them that them to being allowed to install software on the computer they access, means they shouldn't be allowed to use Kdenlive, shotcut already makes that mistake). |
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Hello,
Using MXE (cross building from linux through mingw), MLT seems to work for several weeks (not a surprise as Shotcut ships it ; we have done only very basic tests); Kdenlive builds but doesn't start. As we are a bit lost in debugging things in Windows or Wine environments, we progress slowly. It seems for the moment that we are not launching DBus IPC properly, which stops the app start. We have to talk to kde-windows people who probably have already faced these kinds of problems already. For the moment uploading an archive would be a bit messy, as our MXE outputs are full of dev stuff, we have to sort out the files needed for distribution, but if anyone wants we can share our binaries (still failing)... Thanks for your interest 
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just to add the word "END" to the discussion (for future readers...)
the Kdenlive and the MLT porting for windows ... the first "working well" version was released on: 15-Jul-2017 now the latest "stable" (is a beta) version is https://files.kde.org/kdenlive/release/ ... 2-2-w64.7z .. next release.. Dec 2017 |
, requiring us to cross compile most of Kdenlive's dependencies (KDE Frameworks, MLT etc) for Windows.
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