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

[André Pönitz]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 06:33:54PM -0400, andy fillebrown wrote:
> Here are some attachments from a run using Creator 2.5 beta.  The
> project was built with the mingwbuild containing gcc 4.6.2 and gdb
> 7.4.  The .txt and .png suffixed with "call-stack" are the debugger
> log and a screen-capture of the debug run just after a breakpoint is
> hit.  The .txt and .png suffixed with
> "error-message-from-stepping-out-of-function" are the debugger log and
> a screen-capture of the debug run just after stepping out of the top
> function in the call stack.

This is

    https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTCREATORBUG-5200


There had been rumours that this was solved in (really) recent gdb
builds like the ones that are intended to be shipped with Creator 2.5.

In theory, these should be also available on 

    http://builds.qt-project.org/job/gdb-windows/

but it looks like Mr Jenkins suffers from hiccup again.

Andre'