2012/9/24 NightStrike <[email protected]>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:51 AM, K. Frank <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello Kai (and Qt Folks)!
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: ext Loaden [mailto:[email protected]]
> >>> ...
> >>
> >> There's nothing wrong with cross-compilation. But what we need first
> and foremost is a reliable, native MinGW environment for developing Qt
> applications, since the vast majority of Qt developers that develop for
> Windows also develop _on_ Windows. Now one can argue that Qt itself could
> still be compiled using a cross-compiler. But if we're not able to compile
> Qt ourselves with the native toolchain, how can we be sure other complex
> apps will work?
> >>
> >> I haven't found a stock native MinGW 64 bit package yet that can
> compile Qt 5 + Qt Creator. Peter seems willing to experiment with a custom
> package, but I personally do not see this for 5.0 .
> >>
> >> I think for 5.0 , we should therefore only put MinGW 32 bit gcc 4.7 as
> Tier 2 or (preferably) Tier 1 platform. Support for MinGW 64 bit would be
> on a best effort basis (Tier 3).
> >>
> >> Now for 5.1 (that is, earliest May 2013) we should definitely
> reevaluate MinGW 64 bit as Tier 1 or Tier 2.
> >>
> >> What do you all think? I certainly don't want to discourage any effort
> in getting MinGW-64 bit and Qt 5 to work, but rather want to be realistic
> in what we should aim for with 5.0.
> >
> > Just my personal opinion:
> >
> > As much as I like mingw-w64, I think, as a practical matter, if
> > working to get Qt 5.0 to build nicely with mingw-w64 would delay
> > Qt 5.0 by a significant amount, then I would skip it. Better to
> > move forward with Qt 5.0, and hope to get mingw-w64 support
> > for Qt 5.1.
>
> What exactly does not work? Can you build a 32-bit Qt using a
> mingw-w64 32-bit toolchain?
>
Just to put this on the radar, my attempt at building Qt 5 currently
strands here:
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-26601
I have no idea how to solve this unfortunately, as qmake seems to mess up
the link order.
Ruben
> You have our full support to get whatever's broken to work.
>
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