[Interest] Qt on Windows Phone 8

Pau Garcia i Quiles pgquiles at elpauer.org
Fri Jun 22 08:27:59 CEST 2012


On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:34 AM,  <lorn.potter at nokia.com> wrote:

>> "Windows Phone 8 offers native support for the C and C++ development languages. This will be a boon for developers. Microsoft also plans to offer a wide range of APIs that work between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, which is possible thanks to the shared core." http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/240002414
>>
>> Qt? :-)
>
> >From what I understand, until someone ports from Win32 to WinRT, or adds a WinRT platform, I doubt Qt will run very well on Windows Phone 8.

(I said it a couple of days ago but apparently it went unnoticed)

According to Herb Sutter, everything you can do with WinRT, you do in
pure C++ using WTL. In fact, WinRT is implemented in terms of WTL.

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)



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