Some notes on how to build KDE Frameworks packages from source on Windows using Visual Studio tools.
To do so, you need to first have a version of Qt compiled by MSVC installed. Some system environment variables to be set, using Qt 5.15.2 as an example:
PATH
needs to addC:\Qt\5.15.2\msvc2019_64\bin
Qt_DIR
needs to be set toC:\Qt\5.15.2\msvc2019_64
Example instructions for building CMake-based projects (all KDE projects), the command below should be executed in x64 Native Tools Command Prompt.
mkdir build && cd build cmake .. -G "NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX = "C:\Qt\5.15.2\msvc2019_64" nmake && nmake install |
This will install the compiled KDE module into the Qt installation path. You can install it elsewhere, but if you do, make sure you update PATH environment variable accordingly.