[Development] Choosing a new MinGW for Qt 5

[Thiago Macieira]

On sexta-feira, 31 de agosto de 2012 16.05.14, Peter Kümmel wrote:
> On 30.08.2012 18:16, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > My suggestion on how to proceed is to choose one that offers the following
> > or> 
> > most of the following:
> >   - most recent GCC (4.7 preferably, 4.6 if not)
> >   - *working* GDB and tested with Creator, with Python support
> >   - large file support, threading
> >   - zero-overhead exceptions (no SJLJ exceptions)
> >   - standard win32 headers, if possible using the Platform SDK headers
> >   - large set of win32 import libraries
> >   - 32 and 64-bit in one package
> >   - make with -j support
> >   - if this exists: can link to .dll directly, instead of import libs
> 
>      - should be also available in common distros as cross-compiler

That's secondary, like the import libraries (they can be recreated) and make -
j support.

It needs to work on Windows, first and foremost. And if the one that we find to 
work best doesn't have standard cross-compilation packages... well, no big 
loss.

> So I would say mingw-w64 is the choice.
> 
> And if the Windows mingw-w64 setup misses some features we
> should ask if this could be changed by the mingw-w64 project.

True, like zero-overhead exceptions, GCC 4.7 and a working GDB. Those are a 
must.

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