Thanks Maurice. I'll keep working on the changes and put them up for review when they're ready.
Quick question though that I haven't seen addressed in the docs: What's the best way to set up a review with changes in multiple submodules? Should I just push changes for 1 submodule at a time? Thanks, Thomas On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:13 PM, Maurice Kalinowski < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > > > Thanks for looking into this. In case your patches are ready, we’d be > eager to review them following our guidelines at > > https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contribution_Guidelines > > https://wiki.qt.io/Setting_up_Gerrit > > > > Talking about installers, that might be more complicated. For Windows we > provide a huge amount of platforms already and simply put, it depends on > the usage share of a platform to be part of the installer. For instance > there has been discussions on when we can remove MSVC2015 versions to have > both x86 and x64 versions in the installer. > > > > However, not being available in the installer does not have an impact on > the level of support by Qt. > > > > BR, > > Maurice > > > > > > *From:* Development [mailto:development-bounces+maurice.kalinowski= > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Thomas Miller > *Sent:* Friday, July 20, 2018 2:02 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Development] Support for Windows Arm64 Desktop Target > > > > Hi, > > I’m a dev at Microsoft and recently I’ve been experimenting with building > a Qt distribution that targets Arm64 Windows Desktop. > > I wanted to know if changes to the Qt codebase to support an arm64 Windows > desktop app would be accepted into the project and if so, what it would > take to add this distribution as an option to the Qt installer? > > I’ve had some success modifying the 5.10.1 codebase to build a > distribution that targets arm64 apps and I was able to build the notepad > example on my amd64 dev machine and run it on one of my arm64 devices. > > Basically, I started with this patch: https://gist.github.com/tycho/ > 3ce679850a03a39d8c174ac05af56214 and then modified the msvc makefile > generator so that I could target arm64 desktop cross platform. Like the arm > winrt configuration but targeting arm64 desktop instead of arm Windows > store. > > I also modified windeployqt.exe to look at the architecture of the > specified binaries instead of just the address width, so we don’t package > amd64 dlls alongside arm64 executables. > > I ported these changes (which I’m sure will require some iterations) to > the dev branch and am currently building them. The diff for that is here: > https://gist.github.com/thomaslmiller/b97bc7c7905f6e5fdfb93ee71e2a2fc5 in > case anyone wants to look at it. > > Thanks, > Thomas >
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