[Development] QtCS: Long Term Release discussion

[Gunnar Roth]

Hi Björn,
i am really glad this discussion will come to an end ;-), it already took considerable time, internally and externally.
> Am 19.06.2015 um 17:51 schrieb Björn Breitmeyer <bjoern.breitmeyer at kdab.com>:
> 
> Hi Gunnar,
> 
> sadly i have to agree. I finally had the time to setup a Visual Studio 2013 
> with the recent Platform Builder and sadly the generated SDK's still have
> the Compiler Version 17.xx and says Visual Studio 2012. So the link indeed
> gets us to wrong assumptions. It is a bit sad since there is a working arm 
> compiler as you said.
> 

Yes there is, and as i wrote it can be used to compile c99 code and create a working executable by just setting /subsystem to windowsce in the linker step.
This is because wec2013 and winrt both use thumb2 and the arm eabi 2. So the problem is the missing std c++ library for wec2013 and this v18.00 compiler and that it is not supported by MS.


> But we can't force our users to try unsupported crude workarounds. So i hope
> we can find a consenus on having Visual Studio 2012 as a baseline. As 
> otherwise we would drop Embedded Compact 2013 support directly after 
> introducing it.
That would make me and the company really sad


I would appreciate  a clear answer ( or better commitment) from the Qt Company to continue supporting wec2013 beyond  qt 5.6. 

Regards, 
Gunnar