[Interest] Building 32-bit Qt 5 on Mac
Stephen Chu
stephen at ju-ju.com
Tue Apr 24 00:16:44 CEST 2012
On 4/23/12 5:45 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On segunda-feira, 23 de abril de 2012 17.19.56, Michael Jackson wrote:
>> Gack. I got Qt 4.8 and Qt 5 confused in my last post. As you say, Qt 4.8
>> should build in 32 bit mode without a problem. I think Tier 2 support means
>> best try but not officially supported. So I would say that if compiling Qt
>> 5 in 32 bit mode actually works great. If it does not then qt-project is
>> not going to put time into fixing it.
>
> You're inverting cause and consequence there.
>
> The "Tier" level is attributed based on how much work there is on testing. Not
> the other way around.
>
> So Mac OS X 10.6 is Tier 2 because it has not enough testing: most developers
> and most test runs are run on 10.7 only.
>
> Though, looking at the CI runs right now, it does test 10.6. Therefore, I
> actually think it deserves the Tier 1 label.
This is the doc I mentioned:
http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt_5.0
But there are so many different versions of the same info. I don't even
know which to believe:
http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/5.0/supported-platforms.html
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/supported-platforms.html
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