[Interest] Qt on Windows Phone 8

[chuck.piercey at nokia.com]

My short summary: there is a fair bit of work behind the word mostly....


From: ext Jason H [mailto:scorp1us at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 12:47 PM
To: Lorn Potter; Piercey Chuck (Nokia-DXM/SiliconValley)
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Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt on Windows Phone 8

'mostly'?


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On 23/06/2012, at 12:00 AM, <chuck.piercey at nokia.com<mailto:chuck.piercey at nokia.com>> <chuck.piercey at nokia.com<mailto:chuck.piercey at nokia.com>> wrote:

> 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,

Windows desktop 8, Qt already compiles and mostly works.


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> Chuck
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> ----- Original Message -----
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>> From: Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles at elpauer.org<mailto:pgquiles at elpauer.org>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012
>> at 5:34 AM,  <lorn.potter at nokia.com<mailto: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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