That's great news - thanks Allan.

I look forward to getting rid of MSVC!

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Andy Maloney  //  https://asmaloney.com
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM Allan Sandfeld Jensen <k...@carewolf.com>
wrote:

> On Thursday 13 February 2025 16:53:05 Central European Standard Time Andy
> wrote:
> > Vladimir:
> >
> > Thanks for the survey. There wasn't a free-form comment section at the
> end
> > of the survey, but I had a couple of notes...
> >
> > I use QWebEngine for three things for my desktop application: (1)
> > displaying my manual (built using the Qt help system), (2) displaying
> HTML
> > reports I generate on the fly using a template system (KTextTemplate),
> and
> > (3) saving those reports as PDFs.
> >
> > Using QWebEngine had several consequences:
> >
> > 1) On Windows only MSVC is supported, so it changed my development
> tooling.
> > MSVC is a pain to use since there are so many little things that are
> > different/unsupported (w.r.t. clang or gcc). It would save me a lot of
> time
> > not to have to worry about those differences.
> Webengine has built with clang-cl forever (tested every release) The
> problem
> has been qtbase didn't compile with clang-cl without a patch. This should
> be
> fixed in 6.9 with latest clang (where llvm fixed simd intrinsics in
> clang-cl).
>
> Best regards
> Allan
>
>
>
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