On 30.08.2012 18:16, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On quinta-feira, 30 de agosto de 2012 17.25.24, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: >> There are more differences than that. There are differences in >> features, such as threading support, large-file support, etc. >> Mingw-w64 is usually ahead of any other in terms of features. > > My suggestion on how to proceed is to choose one that offers the following or > most of the following: > > - most recent GCC (4.7 preferably, 4.6 if not) > - *working* GDB and tested with Creator, with Python support > - large file support, threading
What is the problem with the current thread support in mingw? > - zero-overhead exceptions (no SJLJ exceptions) > - standard win32 headers, if possible using the Platform SDK headers Is this possible? Aren't these headers full with MS's extensions to C++? > - large set of win32 import libraries Has nothing to do with the compiler. But maybe we could work together with KDE on Windows. > - 32 and 64-bit in one package Not released by mingw-w64. > - make with -j support > - if this exists: can link to .dll directly, instead of import libs > > We should choose one version to be the reference platform and work on making > it Tier 1. We shouldn't have two versions, that duplicates work. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development > _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
