Windows support

[xdimquax]

Please add support of MS Windows operating system (if possible).

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

Hello xdimquax,

qpdfview can already be built on Windows after disabling Unix-specific features like signals via build flags. Of course, functionality is reduced to a certain degree. It also some time ago that we tried this, but we are regularly shipped on OS/2 which is still a similar environment to classic Win32.

The reason we do not advertise this is that we do not plan on shipping Windows binaries anytime soon (as we do not ship any other binaries for other platforms) and no external maintainer has stepped forward to provide public Windows builds of qpdfview.

Honestly speaking, I am also not totally sure how necessary a Windows port is, as they are various alternatives on that platform, for example the excellent SumatraPDF.

Best regards, Adam.

[xdimquax (xdimquax)]

Thanks for your answer! The reason why I asking is because I'm using qpdfview on my KDE desktop and it's a great tool, which I want to be able to use on Windows too; especially since Okular is not available for Windows (yet?). Yes, there are SumatraPDF, MuPDF and Evince, but they are lack of familiar (to me) UI.

[xdimquax (xdimquax)]

Probably, AppVeyor service can be used for providing Windows auto-builds. Look, for example, at Quassel project: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/AlD/quassel

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

Hello again,

I am sure that public CI solutions for Windows exist and several people are using similar services like OBS and Launchpad itself to provide packages for Linux distributions, but I do not see it as a task for the upstream project. I will of course try to help anybody willing to do this as much as possible, e.g. we already have Win32-specific hooks in the build system as there seem to be some people who create Windows builds for private use, but I will not commit to maintain these builds myself.

Best regards, Adam.