On Dec 11, 2013, at 11:57 AM, Jonathan Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/12/2013 8:03 PM, Ziller Eike wrote: >> On Dec 11, 2013, at 6:27 AM, Jonathan Liu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 10 December 2013 18:34, Koehne Kai <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: [email protected] >>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On >>>>> Behalf Of Thiago Macieira >>>>> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 11:24 PM >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> Subject: [Development] Dropping XP? >>>>> >>>>> As Kenneth reminds us[1], Microsoft is ending the security updates for >>>>> Windows XP in April 2014. That's about when we plan to release Qt 5.3. >>>> Actually ANGLE (one of the OpenGL backends we have for Windows) doesn't >>>> support Windows XP already now, which is why e.g. Qt Creator 3.0 will not >>>> support it either in 5.2. >>> Another option would be to build Qt Creator 3.0 for Windows using >>> desktop OpenGL and have an option in the installer to install the Mesa >>> LLVMpipe software renderer. I have written some instructions for cross >>> compiling Mesa for Windows here: >>> http://qt-project.org/wiki/Cross-compiling-Mesa-for-Windows >> I think even if Qt will still support Windows XP (as a deployment platform) >> it is completely fine if the pre-built Qt Creator packages do not. At least >> I don’t think we should at this point start investing a lot of time on this. >> Of course if someone writes down instructions on how one can build Qt >> Creator even for Windows XP somewhere in our wiki (or maybe even >> extending/fixing the README in Qt Creator’s sources), that’d be a perfectly >> welcome addition ;) > You don't need to do anything special for building Qt Creator for Windows XP. > The Qt libraries just need to be built targetting desktop OpenGL. > If you have proper OpenGL 2.1 drivers, run Qt Creator as normal. > If you don't, copy Mesa's opengl32.dll to same folder as qtcreator.exe and > then run Qt Creator. Well, then rephrase “build Qt Creator” to “use Qt Creator”, or something similar. Point is, there is no guarantee that a prebuilt Qt Creator just runs on your WinXP installation. > Regards, > Jonathan > >> >> My 2 1/2 cents, >> Eike >> >>> Regards, >>> Jonathan >>> >>>>> Should we stop supporting Windows XP? Is there anything we can improve in >>>>> our codebase if we do? >>>> I don't know about the codebase, but given the feedback for Qt Creator >>>> there are still a lot of people using XP even as a development platform >>>> ... so I'd expect quite some backslash if we completely drop support for >>>> Windows XP, at least for 'traditional' QWidget based apps. >>>> >>>> My 2 cents >>>> >>>> Kai >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Development mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development > -- Eike Ziller, Senior Software Engineer - Digia, Qt Digia Germany GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 13, D-12489 Berlin Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Tuula Haataja Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
