Hello Kai (and Qt Folks)! On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ext Loaden [mailto:[email protected]] >> ... > > There's nothing wrong with cross-compilation. But what we need first and > foremost is a reliable, native MinGW environment for developing Qt > applications, since the vast majority of Qt developers that develop for > Windows also develop _on_ Windows. Now one can argue that Qt itself could > still be compiled using a cross-compiler. But if we're not able to compile Qt > ourselves with the native toolchain, how can we be sure other complex apps > will work? > > I haven't found a stock native MinGW 64 bit package yet that can compile Qt 5 > + Qt Creator. Peter seems willing to experiment with a custom package, but I > personally do not see this for 5.0 . > > I think for 5.0 , we should therefore only put MinGW 32 bit gcc 4.7 as Tier 2 > or (preferably) Tier 1 platform. Support for MinGW 64 bit would be on a best > effort basis (Tier 3). > > Now for 5.1 (that is, earliest May 2013) we should definitely reevaluate > MinGW 64 bit as Tier 1 or Tier 2. > > What do you all think? I certainly don't want to discourage any effort in > getting MinGW-64 bit and Qt 5 to work, but rather want to be realistic in > what we should aim for with 5.0.
Just my personal opinion: As much as I like mingw-w64, I think, as a practical matter, if working to get Qt 5.0 to build nicely with mingw-w64 would delay Qt 5.0 by a significant amount, then I would skip it. Better to move forward with Qt 5.0, and hope to get mingw-w64 support for Qt 5.1. I would probably then postpone upgrading Qt until it was working with mingw-w64, unless there were some reasonably compelling feature in Qt 5 that addressed some practical need of mine. (This stance implies, correctly, that I am not in a hurry to upgrade to Qt 5.) Of course, others undoubtedly have different priorities. > Kai > PS: Added [email protected] again to the thread. Also, let me thank you guys for taking the trouble to raise the issue and ask what people would like. Thanks for all the good effort. K. Frank ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
