[Development] Qt 5.9
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Nov 25 19:29:53 CET 2016
Bo Thorsen wrote:
> The reason for doing 32 bit MSVC releasees is 3rd party libraries. Is
> that a valid reason for MinGW? I would have thought that the guys using
> it pretty much have to compile everything themselves anyway.
C libraries are normally interoperable between VC and MinGW. Even C++
libraries with a purely extern "C" API should work with both compilers. Only
the C++ ABI is incompatible.
So you can have a 32-bit binary-only DLL that works with MinGW32, but of
course not with MinGW64.
Kevin Kofler
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