[Development] MSVC 2017 32bit pre-built binaries for Qt 5.12 (replacing MSVC2015 32bit)

NIkolai Marchenko enmarantispam at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 19:41:34 CEST 2018


Wasn't it decided it was not the time to switch? Saying for myself - this
will will likely see me not upgrade Qt distro until at least 6.0 once your
suggested change hits..

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 3:47 PM Alex Blasche <alexander.blasche at qt.io> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We had this discussion for Qt 5.11 already but it is time to decide for Qt
> 5.12. The discussion details can be found under
>
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-63708
>
> Based on download figures and dropped MSVC2015 support for webengine we
> plan to change MSVC2015 32bit binaries over to MSVC2017 32bit. I realize
> this will not be happy news for everybody but considering the LTS
> implications of Qt 5.12 it makes sense. Nevertheless if you believe you
> have strong counter arguments please comment on the issue in Jira.
>
> Thank you.
> --
> Alex
>
> P.S. This does *not* mean that we drop 32bit for MSVC2015 support. We
> merely drop the pre-built binary offering in our installer.
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