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#2 Cygwin Support

open-postponed
nobody
Generic (3)
1
2001-08-31
2001-08-30
Anonymous
No

Support for use under Cygwin

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  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    Good timming. About 4 mins after posting the request I fond
    this site.

    http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/

    KDE on Cygwin is the port of Qt and KDE to Windows, using
    Cygwin, the posix emulation layer for Windows, the xfree86
    server and the qt library.

    I think it would be great to have one free development
    environment for all the different unix or windows OS.
    Perhaps one day you could kill the windows explorer and use
    kde as default desktop on whatever the OS are. See here for
    more reasons.

    I started this project in april 2001 and currently I am
    working alone on porting kde 1.1.2.

    Donald Becker has told, that he is working on an x
    emulation lib for providing a native running kde on
    Windows. Currently he is verifying, if the ntxlib is usable
    for this.

    Right now, Qt 1.45, KDE 1.1.2 and Qt 2.3 have been ported
    and are beta quality. (see the KDE 1.1.2 application
    status). All this has been tested under Windows NT4 SP6,
    Win2k and Windows 98.

    Porting of KDE 2.1 is in development.

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

    Logged In: NO

    Good timming. About 4 mins after posting the request I fond
    this site.

    http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/

    KDE on Cygwin is the port of Qt and KDE to Windows, using
    Cygwin, the posix emulation layer for Windows, the xfree86
    server and the qt library.

    I think it would be great to have one free development
    environment for all the different unix or windows OS.
    Perhaps one day you could kill the windows explorer and use
    kde as default desktop on whatever the OS are. See here for
    more reasons.

    I started this project in april 2001 and currently I am
    working alone on porting kde 1.1.2.

    Donald Becker has told, that he is working on an x
    emulation lib for providing a native running kde on
    Windows. Currently he is verifying, if the ntxlib is usable
    for this.

    Right now, Qt 1.45, KDE 1.1.2 and Qt 2.3 have been ported
    and are beta quality. (see the KDE 1.1.2 application
    status). All this has been tested under Windows NT4 SP6,
    Win2k and Windows 98.

    Porting of KDE 2.1 is in development.

     
  • stephan beal

    stephan beal - 2001-08-31

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    user_id=32742

    Cygwin support won't even be contemplated until we get a
    developer who works with Windows. Rusty doesn't use
    Windows at all, and I only use it for playing Master of
    Orion II ;). This is NOT an "anti-windows" statement,
    however - it's just that none of us work under windows,
    and therefor have no desire (and a lessened ability) to
    support it. If we had a developer who likes to work under
    MSVC/Cygwin I would gladly work to make the code
    Windows-friendly. That'd be fantastic, really, but I'm not
    willing to start working under Windows (again) just to
    port QUB to it unless someone else will assume
    responsibility for the majority of the work involved.

     
  • stephan beal

    stephan beal - 2001-08-31
    • priority: 5 --> 1
    • status: open --> open-postponed
     

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