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[doc] Poor Windows Compilation experience #801

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rgaudin opened this issue Nov 12, 2024 · 4 comments
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[doc] Poor Windows Compilation experience #801

rgaudin opened this issue Nov 12, 2024 · 4 comments

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@rgaudin
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rgaudin commented Nov 12, 2024

README says

Libkiwix has to be compiled dynamically, the best way to have it is to use kiwix-build.

https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-build/wiki/Setup-dev-environment-on-Windows is a great help but it's far from working straight up for a newcomer. There are PATH issues, tests not working and needing to be disabled and the missing openSSL v1.1.1 dlls that are mandatory but mentioned nowhere. Also main is currently broken ; also there's no direction on how to achieve it when not making a release (--make-release not working)

I got it to compile so it's just a matter of documentation but I think someone (not me) should setup a clean VM and follow those steps to update what needs to be.

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I want to link this https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-build/wiki/Setup-dev-environment-on-Windows in the README an move this issue to kiwix-build.

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I want to link this https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-build/wiki/Setup-dev-environment-on-Windows in the README an move this issue to kiwix-build.

@rgaudin OK to you on the approach?

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rgaudin commented Dec 31, 2024

It surely is need to mention it on the README but what's most important is to fix that Wiki page obviously.

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kelson42 commented Jan 1, 2025

Done, moving the issue to openzim/kiwix-build

@kelson42 kelson42 transferred this issue from kiwix/kiwix-desktop Jan 1, 2025
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