Windows

[nkomarov]

I use Work Rave on Windows 11 and see some bugs on my PC and would try writing a patch but I need some help setting it up from sources.

I have MS VS and Qt Dev Studio, Git... what else do I need to build it on my machine and try to debug?

Who builds it for Windows? Is there a short description on how to prepare the development environment?

[nkomarov]

Anybody there?

[rcaelers]

The easiest way is to install MSYS2. You need to install the following package (using pacman -S ):
mingw-w64-clang-i686-clang
mingw-w64-clang-i686-cmake
mingw-w64-clang-i686-lld
mingw-w64-clang-i686-ninja
mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-adwaita-icon-theme
mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-boost
mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-clang
mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-cmake
mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-gcc-compat
mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-gtkmm3
mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-lld
mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-ninja
mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-openssl
mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-python
mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-python-pip
mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-spdlog
mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-jq
mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-uasm
mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-rust

If you use vscode, you can rename https://github.com/rcaelers/workrave/blob/main/.vscode/settings-msys2.json to settings.json and compile from with vscode using cmake

Otherwise, you can start a clang64 MSYS terminal and run:
cmake.exe -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX= -DWITH_TESTS=ON -DCODE_COVERAGE=OFF -DWITH_SBOM=OFF -DWITH_TRACING=ON -DWITH_UI=Gtk+3 -DWITH_CRASHPAD=OFF -DWITH_AUTO_UPDATE=OFF -DWITH_CORE_NEXT=OFF -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/toolchains/msys2.cmake -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=TRUE -S - -G Ninja
cmake --build

Let me know if you need further assistance.