Did anyone successfully built KDE on Panther?

durandaldurandal
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
Hey everyone,



Has anyone of you been successful in trying to compile the Macintosh port of the KDE ( http://kde.opendarwin.org ) on Panther (OS X 10.3.2, to be presizely)?



I installed the binaries, but kdeinit crashed everytime, so I deceided to d/l the sources and build the KDE myself. Unfortunately, on my machine, the configure-kde tool is failing when running it. Drops out when trying to call the C++ precompiler...



Greetings,

durandal



EDIT: Sorry for the typo in the thread's title

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 11
    pbg4 dudepbg4 dude Posts: 1,611member
    I haven't under 3.2 but I remember trying to build KDE last Fall under 10.3. There were unresolved dependencies no matter what I did. I ended up installing from Fink and that worked (except for no sound).
  • Reply 2 of 11
    madmax559madmax559 Posts: 596member
    make sure $QT_DIR is set & point to the right location
  • Reply 3 of 11
    yevgenyyevgeny Posts: 1,148member
    ?



    Why would you want to do this, other than because you have too much free time? Planning on porting KDE apps to Panther?
  • Reply 4 of 11
    pbg4 dudepbg4 dude Posts: 1,611member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Yevgeny

    ?



    Why would you want to do this, other than because you have too much free time? Planning on porting KDE apps to Panther?



    I spent last semester learning Linux programming in KDE. As such, I wanted to be able to work on my projects from anywhere, not just on PCs at school. Also, KDE isn't that bad comparatively. In other words, don't knock it 'til you try it.
  • Reply 5 of 11
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    KDE is neat... I have not used it under OSX -- lack of a computer running OSX is the reason.



    However, I do use it from time to time on my linux box. Started using KDE when I first got into linux and loved every bit of it... but then I got a little more hard-core and switched to WindowMaker (the one that is modeled after NextStep). WM was cool for a bit but I moved to Dropline Gnome (Gnome made just for Slackware Linux) and I love it.



    Do you program with Qt?
  • Reply 6 of 11
    machemmachem Posts: 319member
    http://fink.sourceforge.net/
  • Reply 7 of 11
    drumbug1drumbug1 Posts: 155member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by machem

    http://fink.sourceforge.net/



    Umm.... this is totally different. AFAIK, the only KDE on fink uses X11. The topic of this thread is regarding native KDE.
  • Reply 8 of 11
    pbg4 dudepbg4 dude Posts: 1,611member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by drumbug1

    Umm.... this is totally different. AFAIK, the only KDE on fink uses X11. The topic of this thread is regarding native KDE.



    No, KDE needs the X11 libraries in order to compile. Otherwise, Apple wouldn't be shipping their own X11 window manager (in utilities folder in Panther).
  • Reply 9 of 11
    drumbug1drumbug1 Posts: 155member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by PBG4 Dude

    No, KDE needs the X11 libraries in order to compile. Otherwise, Apple wouldn't be shipping their own X11 window manager (in utilities folder in Panther).



    Wrong.



    The native KDE port uses qt-mac to draw the 'windows.' You are thinking of KDE running on xfree86 (X11 or x-windows). KDE only needs the X11 libraries to compile if you plan on running it through X11.



    I suggest you look at the following site:



    http://kde.opendarwin.org/
  • Reply 10 of 11
    pbg4 dudepbg4 dude Posts: 1,611member
    k, my bad. I personally was trying to work it with X11.
  • Reply 11 of 11
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    General Discusion? This is Software material or at second-best Mac OS X.



    Moving to Software now.
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