[Development] Dependencies of Qt5

[Thiago Macieira]

On quarta-feira, 31 de outubro de 2012 16.51.03, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > > 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 outdated.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.

That's the one that comes with msysgit. Can we make the buildsystem use "flex" 
if flex is available instead?

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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