[Development] Dependencies of Qt5

[Simon Hausmann]

On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 07:38:27 AM Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On quarta-feira, 31 de outubro de 2012 10.28.12, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > > Simon: what's the difference between flex and win_flex? Note that
> > > there's
> > > a
> > > flex with msysgit, so if we used flex instead of win_flex, it would make
> > > setups easier.
> > 
> > The issue comes from GnuWin32 having a version of flex that is too old for
> > Angle. In WebKit land we've told people to install the GNU tools from the
> > GnuWin32 distribution (gperf, etc.) and unfortunately the version there is
> > outdated. Hence the discovery of win_flex.
> > 
> > I suppose a better solution would be to have a real configure check for
> > flex in  qtbase and see if the version in PATH is new enough. We can
> > still try to use a copy of qt5.git/gnuwin32 as fallback if we can locate
> > it.
> What is the minimum required version?

I'm not exactly sure, but I know that 2.5.4 is too old (generated code won't 
compile) and 2.5.35 seems to work well.


Simon