[Interest] building Qt 5.9 on Linux - clang or GCC?

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Mon Dec 18 17:25:38 CET 2017


On Monday, 18 December 2017 06:38:20 PST René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Not to start a flame war, but are there clear differences between building
> Qt (on Linux) with clang (5.0) vs. GCC (7.2) that make the one or the other
> a better choice for certain domains of application?
> 
> Link-time optimisation is out of the question (too costly on my hardware,
> which is also why I can't really do a comparison). I'm not expecting much
> performance difference, so build time (cum memory requirements) and
> installation size can tip the scales for me.

Use GCC.

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