[Development] Proposal: Disable ActiveQt from MinGW

[cristian.adam at here.com]

Hi,

There is Wine IDL compiler (http://www.winehq.org/docs/widl) which can be used with MinGW.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Cross_Compile_Mozilla_for_Mingw32 has a reference
about it.

Cheers,
Cristian.
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From: development-bounces+cristian.adam=nokia.com at qt-project.org [development-bounces+cristian.adam=nokia.com at qt-project.org] on behalf of ext Koehne Kai [Kai.Koehne at digia.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 11:24 AM
To: development at qt-project.org
Subject: [Development] Proposal: Disable ActiveQt from MinGW

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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