[Interest] MSVC not-the-latest: are you using it? why?

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Sat Feb 4 23:14:12 CET 2023


On Friday, 3 February 2023 23:23:23 PST Sze Howe Koh wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 07:51 Bob Babcock <wssddc at wssddc.com> wrote:
> > Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote in
> > news:2741742.BEx9A2HvPv__44352.1315975644$1674404321$gmane$org at tjmaciei-m
> > 
> > obl5:
> > > So, are you still
> > > sticking to older MSVC releases years after there's a new one? Why?
> > 
> > Because when I run the maintnance tool for 6.4.2, I see MSVC 2019, but not
> > 2022 (even after installing 2022).
> 
> They are binary-compatible. You can use MSVC 2022 with DLLs that were
> built with MSVC 2019.

Expanding a bit more: there's one build of Qt for both compilers. Though I 
guess this isn't obvious to all users, like it seems not to have been for Bob.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Cloud Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering
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