Hello all,

I'm quite new to KDE on Windows7 (64bit). I have ran the installer (Version 0.9.9-5), I installed as Package Manager, MinGW64, for available release i selected the latest stable version.

I wanted to install/compile other KDE apps that just aren't in the list during initial set-up. I checked out the techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/Windows/emerge I followed it to the letter and got emerge configured. When I try installing any thing from the emerge tool (after going to the kde root,emerge, then running kdeenv.bat) I will use emerge --print-installable, I get a list of packages, then I will try to install one it will eventually give me an emerge fatal error.

Question is do I have to install KDE on windows through emerge for this to work? Or is there something that I might be missing (I'm sure I am) that someone could shed some light on.

Also do I need to use the emerge tool to install/compile a KDE app? I would like to run ardour (if it crashes it crashes). To know how to compile these would be great!!


Thanks

Okay, so trying to install any random thing from the list the emerge shows (emerge --print-installable) and after further looking at the error message above the emerge fatal error I get: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied 'c:\\[my kde root]\\manifest\\openldap-2.4.11-bin.ver'

After some google search it sounds like it could possibly be python? I will tool around with the settings bat file. Anyone else have an idea? I'm thinking I might have to follow the optional advanced section in the getting started emerge windows section that I was following and look into the emergehosts.conf and emerge-boost-config.jam section.

Thanks

gilbot

No dice. Is there another way to compile kde apps (source) in Windows? Could a guy just use MinGW or MSYS or something? I just need a few KDE only apps to run (easier said then done, as I understand).

Thank you all.

gilbot

I believe emerge is simply a special wrapper around MingW, etc. to ensure dependencies and other components are installed with the appropriate configuration and in the right order.

It may help to run emerge from an elevated terminal - or otherwise give your user write permissions to the installation path.

Thank you bcooksley, no issues now. So emerge is just a wrapper, could I use MingW to compile kde sources and have them run (probably unstable) on my windows box? Sorry, I'm a noob.

Yes, emerge is just a wrapper. It automates the retrieval of sources, preparing of the build root and invocation of CMake with the appropriate arguments to ensure it works as smoothly as possible. CMake is responsible for selecting the compiler which is used - unfortunately as I have never used emerge, I don't know what steps you need to take to tell Emerge/CMake to use MinGW.

You might want to ask on the kde-windows@kde.org list about that if it does not do it by default.