[Interest] Qt 5.12 Official packages for MinGW 64 bit?

[Andy]

Yes - that's what I'm doing.

I have > 40 extra DLLs in there. I hope they're the right ones and I hope
it works on all systems.

With MinGW it was straightforward and I didn't have to try it and hope for
the best.

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On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 9:33 AM Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 at 12:55, Andy <asmaloney at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yes - that's exactly why I was asking.
> >
> > I switched to MSVC specifically because I need WebEngine but would much
> rather use MinGW or Clang.
> >
> > I have users who don't have admin privileges, so packaging MSVC-built
> applications is a big headache.
>
> Your users only need admin priviledges if you ask them to run the MSVC
> Redistributable installer.
>
> If I'm not mistaken, the EULA allows you to copy the required MSVC
> DLLs into your application folder instead. See
>
> https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/8089a33c-ddeb-48e1-92c3-609e43ca96a2/msvcrt-redistributable-wherehowdocumentationlicensing-
> for example.
>
>
> Regards,
> Sze-Howe
>
> > ---
> > Andy Maloney  //  https://asmaloney.com
> > twitter ~ @asmaloney
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 3:58 AM 黄其泽 <hgoldfish at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I heard that the upstream Chromium supports clang for windows. Will Qt
> official package provide clang version?
> >>
> >> Distributing windows desktop software built with msvc is a big trouble.
> As the msvc redistribution packages require administrator privilege, and
> fail to install in many computer.
> >>
> >> Kai Koehne <Kai.Koehne at qt.io> 于2018年10月16日周二 下午2:32写道：
> >>>
> >>> > -----Original Message-----
> >>> > [...]
> >>> > I don't know how the coin stuff works, but does this mean that there
> will be
> >>> > official MinGW 64 bit packages for 5.12?
> >>> >
> >>> > If so, will WebEngine be included?
> >>>
> >>> No. Qt WebEngine currently supports only MSVC 2017.
> >>>
> >>> Kai
>
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