amogh kudari wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Currently I am using cygwin build environment with cl compiler. Is > it > > possible to compile qt with qws using cl compiler on cygwin build > > environment?.. >
Thiago Macieira wrote: > We barely support cygwin at all. We prefer mingw, which is like cygwin, but > without the POSIX adaptation layer. <snip>, > <snip>, > I don't want to sound negative, but unless you have a REALLY strong reason > to > do this on your own -- don't expect us to help you with a Done codebase -- > you > may be wasting your time. I really recommend you reset your expectations, > abandon QWS and Cygwin, and move on to Qt 5 and QPA with either Mingw or > standard MSVC. > RECALL: - Microsoft supported POSIX up to WinXP, which replaced it with Interix - Interix (WinXP and beyond) "is-now-dead" - The Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) was deprecated by Microsoft after the release of Win8 Developer Preview, and will be removed in Win9: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX We use the Microsoft "SUA" for the POSIX adaptation layer ... but it's incredibly slow and has many known problems. I don't recommend going there, and it won't be there in the future. So, I agree with Thiago: "Using POSIX on Windows? Just Don't Try." Here's an interesting article from 2010 with a good history of POSIX-on-Windows that fears "Interix may be dead", which we now know to be true: http://brianreiter.org/2010/08/24/the-sad-history-of-the-microsoft-posix-subsystem/ The operative term in those comments seems to be, "abandonware". --charley
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