[Development] Platform / compiler support

[Turunen Tuukka]

Hi,

Sorry for the top posting. I wanted to indicate that we are currently
supporting the following compilers for Qt Commercial 4.8 (including
primary and secondary):

VS2005
VS2008
VS2010
MinGW 4.4
Gcc 4.2 - 4.4 
Xcode 4 
Sun Studio 12 (CC 5.9)
Sun Studio 12.2 (CC 5.11)
Integrity Multi IDE 6
xLC 7
aCC 6.10

For us, if Qt 5 works with these, as well as new versions is a good
starting point. Making sure that Qt 5 works with latest compilers such as
VS2011 is important, as they typically provide significant advantages over
the previous version.

It would be good to have more compilers supported, especially for the
embedded platforms. And definitely it is very important that as few as
possible compilers are ruled our by design choices in Qt.

Yours,



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On 11/8/11 11:48 PM, "Craig.Scott at csiro.au" <Craig.Scott at csiro.au> wrote:

>
>On 08/11/2011, at 9:06 PM, João Abecasis wrote:
>
>> Dr Craig Scott wrote:
>>> On 08/11/2011, at 1:31 AM, João Abecasis wrote:
>>>> At the bare minimum, I think we should strive to support these
>>>>compilers:
>>>> 
>>>>  - GCC 4.2 and up
>>>>  - MSVC 2008 and later
>>>>  - Clang (trunk)
>>>> 
>>>> On the page above I also put in a list of platforms, splitting them
>>>>between Desktop, Embedded and Mobile. The latter two categories only
>>>>have a placeholder row, while for Desktop I put in the following
>>>>platform-compiler mappings:
>>>> 
>>>>  - Linux: gcc 4.4 (Debian stable)
>>>>  - Microsoft Windows 7: MSVC 2008
>>>>  - Mac OS X Lion: gcc 4.2, clang 2.9
>>> 
>>> I would strongly suggest that the LSB makes an appearance somewhere in
>>>the supported platform/compiler listing. To my knowledge, it is the
>>>only truly cross-distribution standard that exists for Linux.
>> 
>> Does the LSB specify a compiler?
>
>
>Yes....... to an extent! The LSB builds are performed using the lsbcc and
>lsbc++ "compilers". I say "compilers" because what they generally do is
>forward to some other compiler with some additional flags merged into the
>command line to make that compiler build in "LSB mode". In the vast
>majority of cases, the underlying compilers are the GNU compilers (gcc
>and g++), but the LSB standard doesn't explicitly require that to be the
>case. That said, I think  you'd be pretty safe if you assumed GNU
>compilers for the purposes of the platform discussions for Qt. The LSB
>SDK provided by the linux foundation does indeed use the GNU compilers
>under the covers, so it seems reasonable for us to make this assumption
>within Qt.
>
>--
>Dr Craig Scott
>Computational Software Engineering Team Leader, CSIRO (CMIS)
>Melbourne, Australia
>
>
>
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