[Development] Choosing a new MinGW for Qt 5

[Peter Kümmel]

On 31.08.2012 09:02, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
>
>> All those MinGW and forks contain mingw32-make.exe util which does have -j
>> option, but in fact this option doesn't make the real parallel build. Maybe
>> sh.exe is needed, but this shell util will pass the incompatible path string
>> so that the build process will be interrupted.
>
> Are you sure of that? I remember reading a thread in the mingw.org
> mailing list in which Earnie Boyd explained MSYS did the path string
> translation and in most cases it worked fine. Or are you talking about
> the cases where it fails? (recursive spawns, overinterpretation of the
> path string, etc)
>

I'm not 100% sure, but only for a mingw-w64 version using the new 'winpthreads'
instead of 'pthreads-win32' library '-j N' did work.

Peter