Windows Build

[SebastianSchwank]

Are there already Builds for Win ?

[zoltanp]

Hi, I didn't try to build ktechlab on windows. In theory it should build.
The gui depends on Qt, Kdelibs, and KDevPlatform. Kdelibs and KDevPlatform have only experimental builds for windows, as far as I know.

[endolith]

This would be great. It's one of the few programs I need a Linux virtual machine for.

[zoltanp]

On KDE5 frameworks it is becoming more and more doable:
Kate 5 will be running on windows:
http://kate-editor.org/2014/11/30/kate5-on-windows/
And KDevelop 5 also:
https://www.kdevelop.org/screenshots/kdevelop-5-pre-alpha-windows

[Foadsf]

@zoltanp following our discussion here: I'm no expert but sure I will look into that. But regarding the priorities, in my humble opinion porting to Windows and supporting AVR has a higher priority than Qt5. But again I'm no expert.

[zoltanp]

@Foadsf Any help is welcome :-)
I'm sure that for users the visible features are more important, however, for sustainable development and ease of distribution the Qt5 port is important. Qt4 is slowly being phased out and at some point it will be removed from linux distributions too. I want to prevent the situation from several years ago when KTechLab has been using Qt3 but Qt3 has not been packaged anymore by linux distrubutions. Also KDE Continous Integration server (build.kde.org) now supports only Qt5 and does not support anymore Qt4.