[Interest] Building 32-bit Qt 5 on Mac

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Tue Apr 24 01:08:35 CEST 2012


On segunda-feira, 23 de abril de 2012 18.16.44, Stephen Chu wrote:
> 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

That's a wiki. Feel free to update it with more recent information.

> 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

5.0 isn't released. The usually about the platforms supported at release are 
updated usually close to the release.

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