[Gpg4win-devel] Kleopatra update to KDE Frameworks 5 and now built from Source

[Andre Heinecke]

Hi,

I've just merged the kleo-kf5 development branch of Gpg4win into master and 
want to give you a heads up about what we've done there.

Until now Kleopatra was included in Gpg4win as a binary Package that was 
compiled on another system. Since 2.2.0 this binary even had to be compiled on 
Windows using the KDE-Windows buildsystem emerge (yuk).

Now, thanks to the KDE Initiative's Framework modularization effort with KDE 
Frameworks 5, we were now able to clean up and reduce Kleopatra's build and 
runtime dependencies [1] so that we can maintain / compile them as part of 
Gpg4win.

So if you now build gpg4win master it will compile Kleopatra and her 
dependencies from source. This makes it much easier in the future to make 
changes to Kleopatra. It still takes a while to compile all that additional 
C++ code but with a fairly modern multicore processor it should still be less 
then 30 minutes. 

While doing this we also got rid of the dependency to DBus and KDE's System 
configuration database (Kbuildsycoca). There were some additional patches 
necessary for this. You can find them in the patches subdir.

Additionally we are now including all available translations for Kleopatra and 
are using the Breeze Icon theme, which I think looks better on modern Windows 
systems.

The Install layout was slightly changed, too. All binaries are now in the bin 
subfolder. This removes the need for the Kleopatra Wrapper and should solve a 
whole class of related "Kleopatra won't start / my shortcuts to Kleopatra 
don't work" Issues.

We have some obvious (but fairly minor) regressions that we'll fix in the next 
days, afterwards we'll publish a new Testversion including this.


Regards,
Andre

1: https://wiki.gnupg.org/Gpg4win/KleopatraDependencies

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