[Development] Requiring minimum GCC 7/MinGW (was: Dropping MinGW support in Qt 6 (Was: HEADS-UP: QStringLiteral))

[Danila Malyutin]

Isn't it already the case:  https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/supported-platforms.html
 ?

чт, 22 авг. 2019 г. в 18:10, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:

> On Wednesday, 21 August 2019 17:17:17 PDT Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > So let me instead change my request:
> > > Can we require GCC 8 for MinGW for Qt 5.15?
> >
> > This is a much more reasonable request than the original one.
> >
> > For what it's worth, the oldest still supported Fedora release (Fedora
> 29)
> > has a cross-MinGW-w64 GCC 8.3.0. (My machine with 7.3.0 is out of date
> and
> > scheduled (by me) to be upgraded tomorrow, so you're lucky that I was
> still
> > able to easily test that version today.  ) So requiring GCC 8 should be
> > fine from our side (even though it looks like GCC 7 would be enough,
> maybe
> > even an earlier version).
>
> Since GCC 7 is working, we can require GCC 7 for MinGW for 5.15, hopefully
> 5.14 so I can begin ressurrecting the Q_THREAD_LOCAL patches.
>
> Can we do that?
>
> --
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel System Software Products
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Development mailing list
> Development at qt-project.org
> https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/attachments/20190822/e08abce2/attachment.html>