[Development] QtCS: Long Term Release discussion

Knoll Lars Lars.Knoll at theqtcompany.com
Fri Jun 19 18:38:27 CEST 2015


On 19/06/15 18:26, "development-bounces+lars.knoll=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org on behalf of Gunnar Roth" <development-bounces+lars.knoll=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org on behalf of gunnar.roth at gmx.de> wrote:



>
>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.

There was never an intention to remove it after 5.6. But I was hoping that we could be using VC++ 2013 (and support wec2013 with it). Looks like that is unfortunately not the case. That implies that our new compiler baseline will stay with 2012 for some time :/

Cheers,
Lars





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