[Development] Heads up! Fixing the build system on Windows

[Andrew Knight]

I totally applaud the initiative. Should we go a step further, and make
Windows 10 a requirement for building Qt for any platform? The OS ships on
most new PCs, and cross-compilers and sysroots for other platform targets
are pretty much ubiquitous nowadays. I realize there may be a slight
transition period getting all developers over to Windows 10 as their
primary development environment, but surely this won't take long now that
Microsoft has provided all the necessary tools to do so.

On 1 April 2016 at 08:16, Tvete Paul <Paul.Tvete at theqtcompany.com> wrote:

>
> As you may know, Lars is leading an effort to modularize the build
> system. One of the big headaches we have is that Windows uses a completely
> separate configure.exe, leading to a lot of duplicated effort.
>
> With the latest announcement from Microsoft, everything changes. Now that
> bash is natively supported, we will remove the ugly hack, and standardize
> on
> using the configure script for all platforms. The requirement for
> Windows 10 should not be a problem, since the upgrade is free anyway.
>
> We are finalizing the changes now, and aim to go live from 5.6.1. As a
> bonus,
> this should speed up the CI system for everyone, since we no longer have to
> test the obsolete Windows versions.
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