[Development] Qt 5.9

[Alexander Nassian]

Also a +1 from me. Its simply the easiest and most hassle free way for newcomers to start on Windows and it runs everywhere. In my opinion 32bit should have been completely stopped 10 years ago, but sadly the reality is ugly.

Beste Grüße / Best regards,
Alexander Nassian

> Am 25.11.2016 um 19:29 schrieb Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>:
> 
> 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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