[Qt-creator] Request: dropping support for macx-g++ to *compile* Qt Creator

André Pönitz andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de
Sat Dec 29 13:12:52 CET 2012


On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:48:23AM +0000, Joseph Crowell wrote:
> On 12/28/2012 07:50 PM, André Pönitz wrote:
> > Ziller Eike wrote:
> >> Erik Verbruggen wrote:
> >>> Hereby I would like to ask to officially drop support to *compile* Qt
> >>> Creator with macx-g++. [...]
> >> I don't have a big problem with dropping compilation support of Qt Creator
> >> with that mkspec/compiler. The "funky incomprehensible error messages" can
> >> be circumvented by making the Qt Creator .pro file bail out with a useful
> >> error + hint for that mkspec, similar to how we do it for the Qt version.
> > Is macx-g++ needed for any of the Qt builds for which we might need
> > to ship SDK packages at some point of time? If so, dropping that
> > configuration for building Creator might impact building the SDK...
> 
> I think clang is used by most people for the SDK as well.

And clang is available on all versions of Mac OS X we care for?

Andre'



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