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

[Scott Aron Bloom]

One thing that is not clear to me, what level of access the bash shell will have to the windows subsystem.  Apparently you will be able to run native linux applications inside the shell, but it is not clear if an X server will be made available, and what windows application will run under the bash shell.

As to the building on windows 10, one thing that I would recommend if you go down this path.   Have an option added to the cofnifuration to "package" the results into an installer.  Thus a company that hasn't migrated to Windows 10, can create a VM to do the build and install (which is common anyway) and package up their customer installer to deploy the installation inside their world

Scott

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From: Development [mailto:development-bounces+scott=towel42.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Tvete Paul
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2016 10:17 PM
To: development at qt-project.org
Subject: [Development] Heads up! Fixing the build system on Windows


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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