[Development] Qt 6 buildsystem support requirements

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 1 August 2018 11:58:02 PDT BogDan Vatra via Development wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Did you knew that qbs can build all but windows targets at once from your
> Linux machine? 

That's not news. qmake can do that, provided you have the toolchains. You 
could compile for Mac and MSVC too, if you had them (for MSVC, via Wine, like 
godbolt.org).

> Using mingw you can cross compile Qt for windows, but you
> probably want to run tests and to check if the code compiles with msvc.
> This feature might not seem pretty useful for linux, but is very useful for
> Android where we can bundle multiple platforms in the same package.

Agreed.

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