[Interest] Qt on Windows Phone 8

Lorn Potter lorn.potter at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 21:35:59 CEST 2012


On 23/06/2012, at 12:00 AM, <chuck.piercey at nokia.com> <chuck.piercey at nokia.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I commissioned a deeper investigation into the scope of work required for Qt to work fully on Windows 8. I will receive the full review of this investigation early next week. I will make sure to share this detail with everyone as soon as I am able to.
> 
> Thank you,

Windows desktop 8, Qt already compiles and mostly works.


> 
> Chuck
> 
> Chuck Piercey
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: interest-bounces+chuck.piercey=nokia.com at qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+chuck.piercey=nokia.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of ext BRM
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 6:46 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt on Windows Phone 8
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
>> From: Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles at elpauer.org> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 
>> at 5:34 AM,  <lorn.potter at nokia.com> wrote:
>>>> "Windows Phone 8 offers native support for the C and C++
>> development languages. This will be a boon for developers. Microsoft 
>> also plans to offer a wide range of APIs that work between Windows 8 
>> and Windows Phone 8, which is possible thanks to the shared core."
>> http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/240002414
>>>> 
>>>> Qt? :-)
>>> 
>>>> From what I understand, until someone ports from Win32 to WinRT, or
>> adds a WinRT platform, I doubt Qt will run very well on Windows Phone 8.
>> 
>> (I said it a couple of days ago but apparently it went unnoticed)
>> 
>> According to Herb Sutter, everything you can do with WinRT, you do in 
>> pure C++ using WTL. In fact, WinRT is implemented in terms of WTL.
> 
> According to the WTL page on Wikipedia[1], WTL is built on and for the Win32 API; and from everything I've heard from Microsoft on Win8Win32 won't be allowed to work in Metro, only the "Legacy Deskop" environment. Where as WinRT is used for Metro, and allows a very small subset of Win32[1], especially if you want to target Win8 on ARM.
> 
> That alone is a big difference; and if one wants to use Qt and native for Win8, then Qt will have to be rewritten for WinRT support.
> 
> Ben
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Template_Library
> [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br205757.aspx
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