[Interest] Qt on Windows Phone 8

[chuck.piercey at nokia.com]

Hi,

I commissioned a deeper investigation into the scope of work required for Qt to work fully on Windows 8. I will receive the full review of this investigation early next week. I will make sure to share this detail with everyone as soon as I am able to.

Thank you,

Chuck

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-----Original Message-----
From: interest-bounces+chuck.piercey=nokia.com at qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+chuck.piercey=nokia.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of ext BRM
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 6:46 AM
To: interest at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt on Windows Phone 8

----- Original Message -----

> From: Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles at elpauer.org> 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.

According to the WTL page on Wikipedia[1], WTL is built on and for the Win32 API; and from everything I've heard from Microsoft on Win8Win32 won't be allowed to work in Metro, only the "Legacy Deskop" environment. Where as WinRT is used for Metro, and allows a very small subset of Win32[1], especially if you want to target Win8 on ARM.

That alone is a big difference; and if one wants to use Qt and native for Win8, then Qt will have to be rewritten for WinRT support.

Ben

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Template_Library
[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br205757.aspx

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