Instructions to install a KDE4 application on Windows

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

This question was off-topic on Unix & Linux so I decided to post it here. I am using Windows 8.1 and I don't use Linux so I have never installed something like Cygwin even though I heard about it many times. I want to install a program called "Cirkuit". It is a KDE4 GUI-app that creates circuit diagrams and converts them into Latex code. Here is the official website of the program.

How to install all the required stuff to make it up and running on a Windows PC so that I can get back to writing Latex documents.

manpreet 2 years ago

In general it is possible to compile a program from source in cygwin if it runs in Linux.

The method is the same as reported on https://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/magostin/cirkuit.html without the sudo portion that in cygwin does not exist:

tar xzvf cirkuit-x.y.z.tar.gz
cd cirkuit-x.y.z
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
make
make install 

of course you will need to install all needed tools https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html#setup-packages

You will need as minimum the compiler gcc-core plus cmake and make plus the package that contains kde4-config.

 $ cygcheck -p bin/kde4-config
Found 6 matches for bin/kde4-config
...
libkdecore5-4.14.38-3 - libkdecore5: KDE4 application framework

The suggested packages for Debian

texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-pstricks texlive-base-bin texlive-extra-utils preview-latex-style m4 ghostscript pdf2svg cmake kdelibs5-dev libqt4-dev libpoppler-qt4-dev

have equal or similar names in Cygwin. As example:

libpoppler-qt4-dev -> libpoppler-qt4-devel

the full list of available packages: https://cygwin.com/packages/package_list.html