GSoC 2014 Ideas

[Alberto Corona]

Sorry, forgot to CC the mailing list:

I see, I wasn't aware of that. In that case most of what I had done should
be thrown out the window! I'll make sure to stick to msys, in the meantime
it really seems that cross-compiling is the only alternative that doesn't
require one to leap through flaming hoops and shark tanks. The only way to
really get it going correctly is to not use the 32 bit directory at all, a
long with fixing the environment paths (quite the pain)


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> 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 :-)
>
> /D
>
>
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