Hello, Wine provides an IDL compiler, which has been adopted my mingw-w64:
http://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/mingw-w64-tools/widl/ Mozilla is using it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Cross_Compile_Mozilla_for_Mingw32#Install_widl_(optional) On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Koehne Kai <kai.koe...@digia.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering whether we should remove ActiveQt from the MinGW binary > packages, and skip it by default if we build for MinGW. > > I'm not an expert on ActiveQt, but my understanding is that it's of minor > use without an IDL compiler. MinGW doesn't offer one, which is why all > examples except the 'webbrowser' one are skipped for MinGW ... and that one > crashes: > > https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-32140 > > So, any thoughts on this? Surely the bug above mentioned can be fixed, but > is there any use of shipping ActiveQt for MinGW if there is no idl > compiler? I understood you can't just use the Microsoft midl one ... > > Regards > > Kai > -- > Kai Köhne, Senior Software Engineer - Digia, Qt > Digia Germany GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 13, D-12489 Berlin > Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Anja Wasenius > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin. USt-IdNr: DE 286 306 868 > Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B > > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development > -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
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