Hi Jani,

+1 from my side for doing the move to 64bit MinGW in two steps.

Cheers,
Lars

> On 21 Dec 2017, at 11:37, Jani Heikkinen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> There is open suggestion (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-35288) to 
> start delivering MinGW 64 bit pre-built binaries. This has been requested 
> several times in mails, blog comments etc. We have discussed this earlier, 
> last time with Qt 5.10 where I proposed that we could replace 32 bit MinGW 
> with 64 bit one. But at that time we weren't ready for that. And it seems 32 
> bit MinGW package is still quite widely used, see 
> http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2017-December/031674.html .
> 
> With Qt 5.11 it seems we can finally drop MSVC2013 so we could "temporarily" 
> add MinGW 64 bit pre-build binaries in our packages in addition to 32 bit 
> ones and remove 32 bit MinGW pre-built binaries from 5.12 onwards. Making 
> this decision now would complete this discussion finally and still give users 
> time to move from 32 bit to 64 bit ones...
> 
> br,
> Jani
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