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Revision as of 08:41, 12 September 2014

"KDE libraries and applications are available to you, no matter if you are a commercial developer, manager or free software hacker. You are invited to not only just use the toolkit - you can contribute your own solutions and improvements to the KDE community."

Konqi, the KDE mascot now also supporting MS Windows

The KDE on Windows Initiative is an ongoing project to port the KDE applications to MS Windows. Currently supported versions of Windows Vista, 7 and 8.

Overview

User Installation

Install KDE 4 on Windows using the KDE Installer for Windows
Additional Software that is needed for some programs to work properly
Windows specific features: modifying the location of .kde and some more internal settings

Development

Build KDE on Windows using emerge
Debugging on MS Windows
Development Workflow
Tools (required or useful)
Porting Guidelines
Meetings
Source code in the KDE git: emerge

Information for application developers

(Release) status info

Current release target is KDE 4.10.2 ([1]).
builds:
- Release-Series

Qt5/KDE5 status

update dbus to nightly branch
get kdelibs building - what about split packages?
use updated mingw
disable dbusmenu-qt on Windows by default
fix Qt5 dependencies on all packages

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 *[[Development/Tutorials/Debugging/Debugging_on_MS_Windows|Debugging on MS Windows]]
 *[[/Development Workflow|Development Workflow]]
-*[[/Issues |Issues, TODOs, and status info]] (on individual apps, libraries, or other parts of the project) (outdated)
 *[[/Tools|Tools]] (required or useful)
 *[[/Porting Guidelines|Porting Guidelines]]
 *[http://community.kde.org/KDE_Windows/Meetings Meetings]
-*[[/Windows CE|Windows CE]]
 *Source code in the KDE git: [http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=emerge.git emerge]