[Development] Choosing a new MinGW for Qt 5

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Hi,



On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:56 PM,  <kai.koehne at nokia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to get this on the table again: What is the MinGW package that we want to support officially? The matrix for Qt 5.0 right now says MinGW gcc 4.5 32 bit [1]. Note that when you're installing latest mingw from mingw.org it's already installing gcc 4.7, and I guess you'd need to dig into the archive to get gcc 4.5 ... But anyway, it's still 32 bit only.
>
> In the last days I gave the following packages that also support both 32 bit and 64 bit a try:
>
> TDM-GCC: Nice installer, but somewhat stale (gcc 4.6.1 / gdb 7.3.1) + not much (visible) activity
> Mingw-64: last official 1.0 build is from a year ago (gcc 4.5.4). There are popular, 'semi-official' personal builds with 4.7.1 though ...
> Mingw-builds: gcc-4.7.1, gdb 7.4.1.  packages for gcc-7.4.2 are already in the prerelease directory ...

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There are more differences than that. There are differences in
features, such as threading support, large-file support, etc.
Mingw-w64 is usually ahead of any other in terms of features.

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
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(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)