I am on Windows 10 and plan to continue using mingw & QtCreator until it no
longer seems viable.  I can't imagine any possible benefit that would
justify the pain of installing and learning new tools.  I assume there was
some reason for the change, but I don't recall it ever being explained.

Marc

On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 3:14 PM Sideways Skullfinger <
sidew...@sidewaysskullfinger.com> wrote:

> I already have a reason to edit one of the .ui files, which causes the Qt
> extension to activate inside VS2017.  So far all it does is crash VS2017.
>
> Jojo - are you able to edit .ui files inside VS2017?  Or is that one of
> the reasons you still use Qt Creator?
>
> For now I'm going to edit this file in Qt Creator and then reopen VS2017
> after I'm done.
>
>
>
> On 11/23/2018 8:56 AM, Sideways Skullfinger wrote:
>
> To end this thread on a note that might interest the email list:
> What configuration are you using personally right now?  It sounds like
> you're still using mingw, and that MuseScore still supports building with
> mingw.  Is there a timeline for ending that support and only supporting
> MSVC inside Visual Studio?
>
>
> On 11/22/2018 11:43 PM, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
>
> Yes, and they should be current
>
>
> ---- Sideways Skullfinger schrieb ----
>
> To make sure I understand - "the former" is VS 2017, which is the official
> Windows build method now, so I should switch to it.
> OK.  I see instructions for that here:
>
> https://musescore.org/en/handbook/developers-handbook/compilation/compile-instructions-windows-visual-studio-2017
> Are those up-to-date?  Or maybe nothing has changed for those instructions.
> I just finished installing Qt 5.12 ...
>
> On 11/22/2018 4:33 PM, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
>
> The former. The latter is still a todo....
>
>
> ---- Sideways Skullfinger schrieb ----
>
> So I should stop using Qt and switch to MSVC?  I have Visual Studio 2017
> installed for another project.  I could switch.  Or is this MSVC inside Qt
> Creator?
>
> On 11/22/2018 4:07 PM, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
>
> Of course I meant "in time"...
>
>
> ---- Joachim Schmitz schrieb ----
>
> Ah, good to know, maybe just in tile for musescore 3 beta ;-)
> Note though that the official way is no longer via MinGW but via MSVC
>
>
> ---- Sideways Skullfinger schrieb ----
>
> I am updating to the final RC right now.  It was released several hours
> ago.
>
> On 11/22/2018 3:57 PM, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
>
> I'm using it ever since the first Alpha, RC is expected any day now, final
> in the first week of December
>
>
> ---- Sideways Skullfinger schrieb ----
>
> OK.  My deploy steps seem to have gotten toasted in the process too.  I'm
> having trouble going back to building my previously committed, unrebased
> code.  I've been hoping  for a real 64 bit version of this to come along,
> so I think I'll try 5.12, if that's an approved version for MuseScore. I
> just looked at the handbook and there it is, as of 3 weeks ago 5.12 and 64
> bit is available.  OK.  I'll install Qt and follow instructions again.
> Thanks!
>
> On 11/22/2018 3:17 PM, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
>
> You need to set BUILD_64 to false, or use Qt 5.12, which has a 64bit mingw
>
>
> ---- Sideways Skullfinger schrieb ----
>
> Yesterday I was building with off of a master that was a few months
> old.  Today with the new master I am getting this error at the very end
> of the build:
>
> CMake Error at mscore/cmake_install.cmake:46 (file):
>   file INSTALL cannot find
> "C:/Qt/Tools/mingw530_32/bin/libgcc_s_seh-1.dll".
>
> I am running Qt 5.9.5, and you can see the mingw version in the error
> message.  I have not compiled MuseScore in the past few months, did I
> miss something?  Do I need to change my install configuration, and if
> so, how do I do that?  Or do I need to find a copy of this dll file and
> copy it into this mingw folder?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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