Have you ever tested it on windows? about kddockwidgets

[iamsergio]

Yep, tested on Windows, many people are using it.

Here's my steps, which I've just tested on a random laptop:

Open a cmd.exe suitable for development (Qt, compiler, cmake, ninja in PATH)

cd kddockwidgets_sources/
mkdir build/
cd build/
cmake -G Ninja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=c:\kddockwidgets_installed ..
ninja
ninja install
cd ..\examples\dockwidgets
cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\kddockwidgets_installed .
ninja
set PATH=%PATH%;c:\kddockwidgets_installed\bin
kddockwidgets_example.exe

Let me know if it worked

[samuelyhsu]

Thanks for your reply，but same error occurred when I run
cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\kddockwidgets_installed .

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:10 (find_package):
Could not find a configuration file for package "KDDockWidgets" that is
compatible with requested version "".
The following configuration files were considered but not accepted:
C:/kddockwidgets_installed/lib/cmake/KDDockWidgets/KDDockWidgetsConfig.cmake, version: 0.1 (64bit)
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "D:/.../KDDockWidgets/examples/dockwidgets/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
CMakeOutput.log

[iamsergio]

Looks like you're building an app in 32-bit mode (according to CMakeOutput.log) against a 64-bit KDDW

[samuelyhsu]

Hi, I used vcvarsall.bat x86_amd64 incorrectly to initialize the environment before, but it worked fine after switching to vcvarsall.bat x86 or vcvarsall.bat amd64, thanks for the help.
After that, I want to try the example, run ninja(after cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\kddockwidgets_installed .), it said

ninja: error: loading 'build.ninja': The system cannot find the file specified.
I checked, and actually there is no such file.

[samuelyhsu]

And how should I use it in qt creator? I tried to add library like this

in qt pro file

win32: LIBS += -LC:/kddockwidgets_installed/64bit/lib/ -lkddockwidgets
INCLUDEPATH += C:/kddockwidgets_installed/64bit/include
DEPENDPATH += C:/kddockwidgets_installed/64bit/include
win32:!win32-g++: PRE_TARGETDEPS += C:/kddockwidgets_installed/64bit/lib/kddockwidgets.lib
else:win32-g++: PRE_TARGETDEPS += C:/kddockwidgets_installed/64bit/lib/libkddockwidgets.a

But when I build it, it said

C:\kddockwidgets_installed\64bit\include\kddockwidgets\private\Frame_p.h:31: error: C1083: Cannot open include file: 'docks_export.h': No such file or directory

In fact, not only this one but many files are missing. Please help, thanks.

[iamsergio]

first let's get the cmd line build working: also pass -G Ninja to cmake, otherwise it will use whatever is the default generator

Note that ninja isn't a requirement, you can use your usual generator (NMake, etc.)

[samuelyhsu]

Thanks a lot, It works really amazing, look forward to the official release.
By the way, can you help with how to use it in qt creator. Pardon my ignorance showing...

[samuelyhsu]

I don't know if there is a better way, but my stupid way is to change the include path one by one, now it worked, thanks

[samuelyhsu]

Sorry, but I still have a question, as default, it will build the debug version of the library according to the above command? How can I get the release version? When using release mode in qt creator, the build is successful but cannot run

[iamsergio]

I don't know which error you got, so will try to guess you're linking debug kddw to a release app, which msvc doesn't support.

A release version needs to be linked to a release version of kddockwidgets (pass -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release when building kddw

Closing this now, as KDDW doesn't have any bug.