[Interest] COM, and thus Qt Accessibility, doesn't work with Qt MinGW builds?

[Friedemann Kleint]

Hi,

 >On 07.07.2017 10:04, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
 >I was battling with accessibility issues for a while now, where Qt was 
not exposing IAccessible2 interfaces, making Qt application almost 
completely inaccessible.
 >An NVDA developer figured out that it's because MinGW builds of Qt 
don't seem to support COM interfaces. This was nowhere to be found in 
the documentation (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/accessible.html).
 >Am I forced to switch my development from gcc/mingw to msvc? Or is 
there a way to get COM working with mingw?

For the moment, yes. I did a quick experiment ( 
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/199789/ ) and found that it has 
improved, but does not work out of the box yet.

Regards, Friedemann

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Friedemann Kleint
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