[Development] Proposal: Disable ActiveQt from MinGW

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pau Garcia i Quiles [mailto:pgquiles at elpauer.org]
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 11:44 AM
> To: Koehne Kai
> Cc: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Proposal: Disable ActiveQt from MinGW
> 
> 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/
> 

Fair enough. We're even shipping it in the mingw-builds toochain, although it's named 'i686-w64-mingw32-widl' :)

Let's see, maybe I can get the combo even working...

Regards

Kai

(who didn't have anything to do with ActiveQt / COM since a decade, but well ...)

> Mozilla is using it:
> 
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Cross_Compile_Mozilla_for_Mingw3
> 2#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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