[Development] QT 5.0 Configure fails

[Sze Howe Koh]

On 6 January 2013 13:51, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> On domingo, 6 de janeiro de 2013 09.53.05, Sze Howe Koh wrote:
>> On 6 January 2013 09:40, Karl Ruetz <karl.ruetz at ruetzdogz.com> wrote:
>> > I thought Mingw was not supported for Qt 5.
>> >
>> > Karl
>>
>> MinGW is a Tier 1 platform
>> (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.devel/7669)
>
> Wrong. At this point, MinGW qualifies as Tier 3 or unsupported, since it was
> not tested or released during 5.0.0. That situation may change in the coming
> releases.
>
>> , so it is
>> indeed supported. See also
>> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtdoc/supported-platforms.html
>
> It's not supported for 5.0.0. You can try the latest Git branches (stable or
> dev) and work on making it supported for future releases. That's how it will
> rise from its unsupported status to Tier 1 or so.
>
>> It's just that last-minute issues prevented the inclusion of a
>> MinGW-based precompiled library in the Qt 5.0.0 release. (IIRC, there
>> was some difficulty in getting MinGW to compile Qt WebKit)
>
> It wasn't last-minute. We've known of issues since August, at the time of the
> beta1. We never produced a MinGW binary (first binaries were produced in
> September and released in October).
>
> So, no, it was not last-minute. Therefore, MinGW does not qualify for Tier 1
> in Qt 5.0.0.

Ouch, that was a lot of misinformation in a single post... sorry for the noise.

I haven't built Qt 5 using MinGW since the beta days, but I'm
interested in having MinGW support. I'll see if I can help iron things
out.


Regards,
Sze-Howe