[Development] Choosing a new MinGW for Qt/Qt Creator/Qt SDK

[André Pönitz]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:34:21PM -0400, andy fillebrown wrote:
> I would add to the "proper compiler" list the ability to set debug
> breakpoints quickly and proper display of call stacks across .dll
> boundaries.  IMO those are the two things that bug me the most about
> the "distros" already mentioned.  Waiting 2+ minutes for the debugger
> to start, and then not being able to see a complete callstack, is
> frustrating.  So much so that I find myself going back to Qt's GCC 4.4
> release.

Does that mean you have experience with both the 4.4 version
that's currently distributed, and the version from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/files/
and you found the latter lacking?

Startup time should be mostly related to gdb, less so to the
debug information gcc creates...

Andre'