[Development] Compile Qt-4.8.2 with QPA on windows

[Amogh Kudari]

Thanks Thiago and Rafael for your inputs...

Regards,
Amogh.

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Rafael Roquetto
<rafael.roquetto at kdab.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:37:40AM +0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On quarta-feira, 16 de janeiro de 2013 12.34.39, Amogh Kudari wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > >       I wanted to know whether is it possible to compile QT 4.8.2 with
> QPA
> > > on Windows ?
> >
> > QPA for non-Linux systems (besides Blackberry) is only supported in Qt 5.
> >
> > There was a time, before Qt 5, that QPA actually compiled on Mac OS X.
> The
> > "cocoa" plugin is still there, but I wouldn't write an application with
> that.
> >
> > There is no Windows plugin. So even if the rest of the code compiles and
> works
> > on Windows (which is extremely unlikely), you'll still need to write the
> > plugin yourself.
> In addition to what Thiago said, the reason there is a -qpa flag on
> Windows is
> to allow for cross-compiling of other platforms on Windows hosts - if
> supported by the target platform.
>
> Rafael
>
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