[Interest] Qt 4.8.4 support for Visual Studio 2012

[Eric Clark]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: interest-bounces+eclark=ara.com at qt-project.org [mailto:interest-
> bounces+eclark=ara.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 2:43 PM
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt 4.8.4 support for Visual Studio 2012
> 
> On quarta-feira, 10 de abril de 2013 19.32.25, Eric Clark wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone knew whether or not Qt would be building
> > 4.8.4 or any future release of 4.x.x using Visual Studio 2012? I know
> > that Qt 5.x has builds for Visual Studio 2012, but we are not quite
> > ready to port to Qt
> > 5 yet. Therefore, a build of Qt 4 using Visual Studio 2012 would be
> > very nice for us. If there is no intention of releasing a 2012 build,
> > then we will go ahead and build it ourselves. Any help is very much
> appreciated!!
> 
> Hi Eric
> 
> I doubt we'll produce binaries for VS2012, but you should be able to build the
> sources yourself.
> 
> The mkspec for VS2012 is present in the 4.8.4 sources.
> 
> I *think* there was a small glitch somewhere in building, but I can't recall the
> details and in which version it may have been fixed. If you find a compilation
> error when compiling, please report it as a bug.

Will do. Thank you very much Thiago, I really appreciate such a quick response! - Eric

> 
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> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center