[Interest] What is the status of Qt and MinGW 64 for Windows?

[Thiago Macieira]

Em quinta-feira, 9 de março de 2017, às 11:17:18 CET, Carel Combrink escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to get a status update on what is the current
> thinking/planning regarding 64-bit applications on Windows using MinGW?
> 
> I am fully aware of the MinGW-64-Bit <https://wiki.qt.io/MinGW-64-bit> page
> on the wiki, and have been following it for a while now.
> 
> Although the page has a lot of information regarding the different options,
> what is the conclusion?
> 
> Does the Qt Company plan to ship 64-bit MinGW Qt binaries with the
> installer (Opensource or Commercial) or is this completely off the roadmap?

I don't know about the Qt Company. The Qt Project has had this discussion and 
the conclusion is we want to, but we need to bring down the number of binaries 
generated. So it's unlikely to happen until we can drop one MSVC 2013 build.

> Should one rather switch to the MSVC compiler that does support compiling
> to 64 bit for which the installer contains the needed 64-bit binaries?

Not necessarily. If you want to use GCC, you should keep GCC. Just compile Qt 
from sources.

Unless you want qtwebengine. Because of an upstream decision we have no 
control or influece over, the only platform that supports qtwebengine is MSVC 
2015.

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