[Development] gnuwin32 in qt5.git
Frederik Gladhorn
Frederik.Gladhorn at qt.io
Thu Jan 31 11:52:50 CET 2019
On fredag 18. januar 2019 14:26:50 CET Simon Hausmann wrote:
> I’m a fan of the idea that for Qt6 we remove all copies of third party
> libraries and provide convenient binaries of them in the qt installed (as
> separate package in there) as well as via vcpkg for those wanting to build
> from source.
I completely agree, for Qt 6 we should do this in a different way.
> Flex and bison are IMO exactly the same kind of third party software (except
> that gnuwin32 offers installer executables). Therefore I suggest to not
> have them in a repo but require the presence in the PATH and provide
> binaries in the installer.
I'd like to have a solution now that gets us there step by step. It sounds as
if it's easy to add them to the installer, so we can for now just provide a
zip file for now and provision that in the CI as interim solution.
Cheers,
Frederik
> Simon
>
>
> > On 18. Jan 2019, at 14:11, Frederik Gladhorn <Frederik.Gladhorn at qt.io>
> > wrote:
> > 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 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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