[Android-development] Support for android-clang in prebuilt Qt version

[Xavier Bigand]

Hello,

this an interesting topic, I am curious of why gcc 4.9 is still better than
clang? Because clang is targetting ARM cpu since years, and now considered
as the compiler to be used by default by Apple and Google.

2017-12-13 9:36 GMT+01:00 BogDan via Android-development <
android-development at qt-project.org>:

> Hi,
>
> 1. yep is officially supported
> 2. when clang will be better than gcc 4.9. Yes, I know is not fair to
> compare latest & greatest clang with gcc 4.9 which is quite old, most
> probbaly gcc 7 is much batter than 4.9, but 4.9 is the best we have now for
> Android (armv7).
>
> Yours,
> BogDan.
>
>
> On Wednesday, December 13, 2017, 9:47:28 AM GMT+2, Smolin, Alex (GE
> Healthcare) <alex.smolin at ge.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> Currently there is a bug in Qt that does not allow to switch to clang
> compiler for Android in prebuilt Qt version. There are links pointing that
> it is possible to get Qt using android-clang if manually compiling Qt with
> –xplatform android-clang option.
>
>
>
> Questions:
>
>    1. Is android-clang officially supported?
>    2. If it is supported, when android-clang compiler could be nominally
>    chosen in prebuilt Qt version?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Alex.
>
>
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