[Interest] need a QT 5.12.0 MinGW 32bit release for windows in all the upcoming QT versions

Frank Hemer frank at hemer.org
Tue Dec 18 17:34:21 CET 2018


Indeed - working in medical IT this is the major issue for me.

Frank

On Tuesday, 18 December 2018 17:28:05 CET Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 December 2018 03:56:47 PST Kai Koehne wrote:
> > Anyhow, we don't want to maintain two different MinGW builds; there was
> > quite some popular demand for 64 bits (see e.g.
> > https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-35288), so we switched to 64 bit in
> > Qt 5.12. I don't see us switching back until there's clear evidence that
> > the majority would prefer 32 bit.
> 
> I think the point is not to switch, but to provide an additional build. I'm
> going to guess the requestors' argument is going to be that they still need
> to ship 32-bit applications for Windows, since they still have users with
> 32-bit Windows, despite running on a 64-bit CPU.





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