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h1. Build Quassel on Windows Mingw

h2. Build Quassel with QT only

h2. Software Requirements

* "python 3":https://www.python.org/

* "Git":http://msysgit.github.io/

* "QT 4.8.5":http://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/4.8/4.8.5/qt-win-opensource-4.8.5-mingw.exe

h2. Installation

h3. Install Python

If you already have installed python you can skip this step.

h3. Install Git

If you already have installed python you can skip this step.

h3. Setup your installation directory

Create the directory you will use as your ROOT directory for your quassel build.

h3. Install and setup emerge

First of all you need to checkout emerge using git.

Open a powershell or instance, switch to your ROOT directory and clone emerge "git clone git://anongit.kde.org/emerge".

Check out the latest stable branch which is currently "kde-4.12"("cd emerge" "git checkout kde-4.12").

Create a "etc" folder in your ROOT directory.

Save the following ini file to "ROOT/etc/kdesettings.ini" 

<pre>

[General]

#a fast make tool for cmake projects

EMERGE_USE_NINJA = True

KDECOMPILER = mingw4

EMERGE_ARCHITECTURE = x86

EMERGE_VERBOSE = 1

EMERGE_NOCOPY = True

#use jom, jom is a fast make tool

EMERGE_MAKE_PROGRAM = jom

#use gcc 4.4.7

EMERGE_OPTIONS = features.legacyGCC=True

[Paths]

DOWNLOADDIR = ${KDEROOT}\download

KDEROOT = D:\quassel-noqt

PYTHONPATH = C:\python34

KDESVNDIR = ${DOWNLOADDIR}\svn

KDEGITDIR = ${DOWNLOADDIR}\git

[ShortPath]

EMERGE_USE_SHORT_PATH = False

EMERGE_ROOT_DRIVE = u:

EMERGE_SVN_DRIVE = s:

EMERGE_GIT_DRIVE = q:

EMERGE_DOWNLOAD_DRIVE = t:

[Version]

EMERGE_SETTINGS_VERSION = 1

[Portage]

PACKAGE_IGNORES =  win32libs/openssl;libs/qt;kde/kdelibs;kde/kde-runtime;kdesupport/phonon;kdesupport/phonon-ds9;binary/mysql-pkg;win32libs/dbus;dev-util/git;dev-util/subversion

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Set KDEROOT to your ROOT directory for building quassel.

Set PYTHONPATH to the location of your python installation.

Important is the value of PACKAGE_IGNORES here we disable all packages emerge wants to install by default.

In your powersehll instance go to ROOT/emerge and call ". kdeenv.ps1" the "." is important to load the script.

If you get an error please try to set "Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned" to make it possible to run downloaded scripts.

Lets start with emerging the compiler, "emerge mingw-w32".

Now lets see what emerge wants to install, call "emerge -p quassel", if you see a package in the list of dependencies you don't want to install add it to PACKAGE_IGNORES.

h3. Install Qt 4.8.5

Install to your ROOT directory.

When you get asked for the location of your mingw location set it to "ROOT/mingw" and ignore the warning.

h3. Build quassel

Go to your powershell window, and enter "emerge quassel" now quassel and all dependencies for quassel should be automatically be build.