[Development] gnuwin32 in qt5.git

Simon Hausmann Simon.Hausmann at qt.io
Fri Jan 18 14:24:03 CET 2019


They are used on Windows for angle’s glsl parser.

Simon

On 18. Jan 2019, at 14:19, Mitch Curtis <mitch.curtis at qt.io> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of
>> Frederik Gladhorn
>> Sent: Friday, 18 January 2019 2:09 PM
>> To: development at qt-project.org
>> Subject: [Development] gnuwin32 in qt5.git
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'd like to have some opinions about the gnuwin32 we currently have in
>> qt5.git. This way we provide flex and bison for Windows.
> 
> I forget... what do we use flex and bison for in Qt?
> 
>> I think it's a bit mis-placed, in my opinion the tools which are needed on
>> Windows should be in their own sub-module.
>> 
>> I think we should continue to ship them as dependencies and have them
>> available easily for developers. But placing them directly in the qt5 repository
>> makes little sense. In Coin we have weird work around and more code that
>> should be needed to make sure they are always in the right place.
>> 
>> Assuming there are no better ideas, I'll request a new repository soon.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Frederik
>> 
>> 
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