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

Pau Garcia i Quiles pgquiles at elpauer.org
Fri Apr 20 11:19:50 CEST 2012


On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:12 AM, andy fillebrown
<andy.fillebrown at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:01 AM, André Pönitz
> <andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
>> 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...
>
> Yes, I have experience with many versions and I have always reverted
> back to qt's gcc 4.4 release due to the issues with gdb.  I'm trying
> out the gcc 4.7.0 version from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/files right now.  I'll let
> you know if I find it lacking, too.
>
> I realize there is a distinction between gcc and gdb, but since gdb is
> included in the distro I thought I'd bring up the issues I've had,
> seeing that the gdb from the distro might be the gdb included in the
> Qt SDK.

Have you tried this?

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.w64.general/3699

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