[Development] Coin: using 64-bit Windows host for 32-bit builds

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Thu May 4 17:51:49 CEST 2017


Em quinta-feira, 4 de maio de 2017, às 07:52:24 PDT, Konstantin Tokarev 
escreveu:
> It is needed because large projects, namely QtWebEngine and QtWebKit
> (wip/next branch) are too large for making 32-bit debug builds on 32-bit OS.
> In case of QtWebKit it's possbile to work around this problem by issuing
> debug info for API implementation only, however this reduces debuggability.

Way back in Qt 4 times, QtWebKit was never built in debug mode even for debug 
Qt builds. The library was just too big. I think we should adopt the same 
policy. The number of people who may want to debug into the WebKit proper code 
is small.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center




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