[Development] Proposal: Disable ActiveQt from MinGW

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Hello,

Wine provides an IDL compiler, which has been adopted my mingw-w64:

http://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/mingw-w64-tools/widl/

Mozilla is using it:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Cross_Compile_Mozilla_for_Mingw32#Install_widl_(optional)




On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Koehne Kai <Kai.Koehne at digia.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering whether we should remove ActiveQt from the MinGW binary
> packages, and skip it by default if we build for MinGW.
>
> I'm not an expert on ActiveQt, but my understanding is that it's of minor
> use without an IDL compiler. MinGW doesn't offer one, which is why all
> examples except the 'webbrowser' one are skipped for MinGW ... and that one
> crashes:
>
> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-32140
>
> So, any thoughts on this? Surely the bug above mentioned can be fixed, but
> is there any use of shipping ActiveQt for MinGW if there is no idl
> compiler? I understood you can't just use the Microsoft midl one ...
>
> Regards
>
> Kai
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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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