[Interest] Qt5 with qml 2.x on Windows XP... problems?

[Jason H]

Please be aware that performance wise, you may have issues.
Vista was the first version to require some 3D capability.
XP has GL (opengl32.dll), but only a very simple implementation. Most vendors (NVidia, ATI) supplied their own GL driver.

It is my understanding that QtQuick 2 assumes GL. I am not sure what version of GL it requires. I'd be willing to bet that the default driver in XP is insufficient. There may be a raster back end, but I could have sworn that GL was the core reason for the difference between QtQ1 and QtQ2?



> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 3:28 PM
> From: "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt5 with qml 2.x on Windows XP... problems?
>
> On Wednesday 10 June 2015 21:20:05 Guido Seifert wrote:
> > Hiya,
> > I just started a project in a company, which still has plenty of Windows XP
> > machines. This is less than a problem than it sounds... embedded, no
> > internet connection. But their product is currently Qt4/QtQuick 1 based.
> > They intend to upgrade to Qt5/QtQuick 2 (yay). Not that it really is my
> > problem, but it made me curious... any problem to be expected? I mean with
> > QtQuick 2 and OpenGL on XP?
> 
> Yes. XP is not supported and not tested, so YMMV. If you're going to upgrade 
> part of the system, consider upgrading the OS too. Otherwise, stick to what 
> works.
> -- 
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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