Hi, On Sat, 05 Mar 2016 10:35:23 +0100 Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Samstag, 5. März 2016 08:09:22 CEST, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote: > > QtWebEngine can _only_ be compiled using (free > > as in beer) MSVC 2013. In particular, MinGW is explicitly _not_ > > supported. > > Out of pure curiosity: got details on this? > MSVC 2013 hardly supersets the GNU toolchain and the code cannot make > use of MSVC's "let's try to compile this junk, despite it's not > nearly valid c++" features, because it generally still needs to > compile on other systems.
it seems not so easy to find details on this. I guess the cheer size of QtWebEngine does not really invite to experiment with different compilers... The bits I know: The actual problem is in the chromium code, somewhere. Here's the most official bit form Qt that I could find about the issue: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-42725 As to what exactly is the issue in chromium, preventing use of MinGW, the totally inoffical bit below is one of the "best" bits of information that I could find at all: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!msg/chromium-dev/EDVJgRxCibY/MiJ92YqXNEYJ From what I understand, it seems to be theoretically possible to build a wrapper library for the chromium embedded framework (CEF) with mingw, but I'm not sure, whether or how this related to QtWebEngine at all. http://magpcss.org/ceforum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=863 Regards Thomas
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