Re: [Interest] Qt 5.8.0 RC build under windows

2017-01-24 Thread Prav
Hello, Maurice. > However, when compiling Qt there are config tests verifying your > environment is compatible against it. If not (for instance you do > not have the correct SDK), those features will be turned off. That seems very interesting features I never heard of. Can you explain little bit

Re: [Interest] Qt 5.8.0 RC build under windows

2017-01-22 Thread Prav
Title: Re: [Interest] Qt 5.8.0 RC build under windows Hello, Mike and Everyone. I compiled Qt 5.8.0 RC on Windows 7 with MSVC2013 and the Windows 8 SDK. Can you (or anyone) share confgure string which successfully build Qt 5.8.0 RC (at least QtDeclarative)? Please tell which version of V

Re: [Interest] Qt 5.8.0 RC build under windows

2017-01-22 Thread Prav
Hello, Thiago. > Please explain why an application should not detect recent versions of Windows > and use extra functionality that is there, making it better and/or more > integrated with the OS. I told you my opinion : what you called "extra functionality" does not exist for desktop Qt and does

Re: [Interest] Qt 5.8.0 RC build under windows

2017-01-21 Thread Prav
Hello, Thiago. >> For example I do not understand : if c-compiler is simply a console app with >> 10's years history of development ... what so important it could need from >> WinVista so that it CAN NOT be run on older Windows? > It's a tiny functionality called "getting the time". It's require

Re: [Interest] Qt 5.8.0 RC build under windows

2017-01-21 Thread Prav
Hello, Thiago. > You do realise that those flags aren't supported and they may not compile, > right? I see commits going past every now and then fixing build failures with > those. Fixing commits goes to any part of Qt. I do not know what to tell. If some part of Qt have many bugs then it probab

Re: [Interest] Qt 5.8.0 RC build under windows

2017-01-20 Thread Prav
>> *Telemetry: the config, the resolved locations of libs and headers, compiler >> and compiler version, modules selected for compile and anything else that >> could help improve the Qt build experience. > That's unacceptable for a lot of privacy-minded people and companies, as it > might divulge

Re: [Interest] Qt 5.8.0 RC build under windows

2017-01-20 Thread Prav
Hello, Gunnar. >>> qtdeclarative\src\plugins\scenegraph\d3d12\Makefile.Debug >>> [.obj\debug\qsgd3d12shadereffectnode.obj] Error 2 and it is : >>> qtdeclarative\src\plugins\scenegraph\d3d12\qsgd3d12shadereffectnode.cpp(544) >>> : error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'textureProviders' >>> >>> W

Re: [Interest] Qt 5.8.0 RC build under windows

2017-01-20 Thread Prav
Hello, Thiago. > c) remove the dynamic_cast by adding our own hand-rolled RTTI to detect > whether the object in question was of the class that the code wanted > (c) was too much work Well ... Qt developers should decide about their style of development. If Qt-developers gathered and decided that

Re: [Interest] Qt 5.8.0 RC build under windows

2017-01-19 Thread Prav
Hello, Thiago. >> And why Qt now needs RTTI? Qt 5.7.0 was building fine without RTTI. What >> features added to 5.8.0 made RTTI mandatory I wonder? > Someone added a dynamic_cast. That's all. OK. Someone added dynamic_cast somewhere in Qt and whole Qt lost ability to be build without RTTI. And y

Re: [Interest] Qt 5.8.0 RC build under windows

2017-01-18 Thread Prav
Hello, Thiago. > -no-rtti is not tested and clearly someone broke it. I've submitted a change > to remove that option from configure starting with Qt 5.8.1. I was thinking that without RTTI compiled programs became lighter and faster (but never saw values of how much) As I can see Qt tries to

Re: [Interest] Qt 5.8.0 RC build under windows

2017-01-18 Thread Prav
Title: Re: [Interest] Qt 5.8.0 RC build under windows Hello, Mike. >Mike Chinander: >I compiled Qt 5.8.0 RC on Windows 7 with MSVC2013 and the Windows 8 SDK. OK. I got it. You are right ... there is no error with building of qwin10helpers.cpp with Win8SDK. So finally : Qt version 5.8.0 can NOT

Re: [Interest] Qt 5.8.0 RC build under windows

2017-01-17 Thread Prav
Hello, Thiago. > Did you pass any options related to RTTI to configure? Already wrote about that in previous message Build errors with -no-rtti flag and without -no-rtti flag I gave in previous message too Previously I build Qt without RTTI with no problems. That is why I had RTTI turned off. I

Re: [Interest] Qt 5.8.0 RC build under windows

2017-01-17 Thread Prav
Hello, Thiago. >I want to see the command-line to the compiler Here is compile command and its output (till next compile file) cl -c -FIQtQuickDepends -YuQtQuickDepends -Fp.pch\release\Qt5Quick_pch.pch -nologo -Zc:wchar_t -FS -O2 -MD -Zc:strictStrings -D_HAS_EXCEPTIONS=0 -W3 -w34100 -w3

[Interest] Qt 5.8.0 RC build under windows

2017-01-16 Thread Prav
I tried to compile 5.8.0 RC just to see how healthy it is under windows with msvc2013 (update 5) compiler. As I understand using header and libs of Windows 7 SDK should be OK for building Qt (at least it always was for previous versions). But then I build I got errors. First error is in : qtbas

Re: [Interest] [Qt-creator] Looking for Enums with Locator

2016-04-13 Thread Prav
Hi, Nikolai. > I'm fine with making enum values "locatable", though personally I > haven't missed them. OK ... as result filled https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-16060 Is there somewhere list of bugs planed for fixing for nearest versions of QtC? May be in JIRA itself? __

Re: [Interest] Why there is no QChar::toLocal8Bit()?

2016-04-11 Thread Prav
Hi, Christoph. =>> But yeah, they are from hell and thou shall now use Qt on them. :) :) :) :) Yeah ... let's consider all platforms with non-multibyte locale codec from hell This probably mean that it is worth to WARN in docs that for QTextCodec::setCodecForLocale() do not use UTF-16 or someth

Re: [Interest] Why there is no QChar::toLocal8Bit()?

2016-04-11 Thread Prav
Hi, Thiago. > It boils down to "in theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice, > they're not". I am not a phylosopher ... only interested in practice. > In theory, the locale codec can be anything, including 16- and 32-bit codecs. > In practice, they can't because a lot of software i