GSoC 2014 Ideas

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 18:00 -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em qua 26 fev 2014, às 17:20:19, Dirk Hohndel escreveu:
> > > As for the issue of the GCC version being old, feel free to get a newer
> > > version of MinGW. The Qt 4.8.6 pre-release packages are now built with a
> > > new MinGW too:
> > > 
> > > http://download.qt-project.org/snapshots/qt/4.8/2014-02-17_484/qt-opensour
> > > ce-windows-x86-mingw482-4.8.6-2014-02-17-484.exe
> > That might be the direction to go.
> > Is there a matching MingW compiler package?
> 
> The file name says "482", so I expect it is MinGW containing GCC 4.8.2. Except 
> I can't find it in the MinGW download links from
> 	http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/
> The latest version appears to be 4.8.1-4.
> 
> I'll confirm with the Qt release team what was used there.
> 
> I'd venture a guess that the same compiler being used for Qt 5 should work:
> http://download.qt-project.org/online/qt5/windows/x86/online_repository/qt.tools.win32_mingw48/

I remember from my last set of adventures down that road that the Qt
release team had a preference for compilers that I could never find...

> > > The only advice I can give is to use paths without spaces. Any tooling
> > > that
> > > uses space-separated lists, like qmake and make, are bound to have
> > > problems
> > > with paths containing spaces.
> > 
> > Yes. But C:\Program Files (x86)\  is sometimes hard to avoid :-(
> 
> Which is why Qt recommends you install it in C:\Qt and MinGW goes to C:\MinGW.

I know :-)

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