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

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 11/07/17 13:41, Friedemann Kleint wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. Seems I'm stuck with MinGW. MSVC, even the latest 2017 version, 
is completely incapable of even remotely being able to build the C11 
part of my code-base.