> -----Original Message----- > From: Pau Garcia i Quiles [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 11:44 AM > To: Koehne Kai > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Development] Proposal: Disable ActiveQt from MinGW > > 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/ >
Fair enough. We're even shipping it in the mingw-builds toochain, although it's named 'i686-w64-mingw32-widl' :) Let's see, maybe I can get the combo even working... Regards Kai (who didn't have anything to do with ActiveQt / COM since a decade, but well ...) > Mozilla is using it: > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Cross_Compile_Mozilla_for_Mingw3 > 2#Install_widl_(optional) > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Koehne Kai <[email protected]> > 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 > [email protected] > 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) _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
