Hi, I commissioned a deeper investigation into the scope of work required for Qt to work fully on Windows 8. I will receive the full review of this investigation early next week. I will make sure to share this detail with everyone as soon as I am able to.
Thank you, Chuck Chuck Piercey http://www.linkedin.com/in/cpiercey Cell: +1-650-224-3429 Main: +1-650-488-4455 Skype: chuck.piercey -----Original Message----- From: interest-bounces+chuck.piercey=nokia....@qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+chuck.piercey=nokia....@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of ext BRM Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 6:46 AM To: interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt on Windows Phone 8 ----- Original Message ----- > From: Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgqui...@elpauer.org> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 > at 5:34 AM, <lorn.pot...@nokia.com> wrote: >>> "Windows Phone 8 offers native support for the C and C++ > development languages. This will be a boon for developers. Microsoft > also plans to offer a wide range of APIs that work between Windows 8 > and Windows Phone 8, which is possible thanks to the shared core." > http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/240002414 >>> >>> Qt? :-) >> >> >From what I understand, until someone ports from Win32 to WinRT, or > adds a WinRT platform, I doubt Qt will run very well on Windows Phone 8. > > (I said it a couple of days ago but apparently it went unnoticed) > > According to Herb Sutter, everything you can do with WinRT, you do in > pure C++ using WTL. In fact, WinRT is implemented in terms of WTL. According to the WTL page on Wikipedia[1], WTL is built on and for the Win32 API; and from everything I've heard from Microsoft on Win8Win32 won't be allowed to work in Metro, only the "Legacy Deskop" environment. Where as WinRT is used for Metro, and allows a very small subset of Win32[1], especially if you want to target Win8 on ARM. That alone is a big difference; and if one wants to use Qt and native for Win8, then Qt will have to be rewritten for WinRT support. Ben [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Template_Library [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br205757.aspx _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
