[Qt-creator] Visual Studio Compiler/Debugger support ?

[Wilton sampaio]

As compilet support, i saying about Qt-Creator trowing the files direct to
NMAKE and have graphical interface for the switches.
Sure, this is not a hard task, but i want to known if this is a already
planned feature ? ( In git there are some commits talking about VS support)
If i do a patch it will ever be considered ?

The debugger part,actually is over my knowledge, and i want to known if the
Trolls have this feature planned ? ( There some CommonDebugger files in
source, that spoils to some forgein Debbuger support, will be a handcrafred
debugger, or MS debugger support ?

>Could you be so kind and elaborate a bit on that ?
The tdragon builds uses hacks and switches and the resulted binary have ABI
incompatibility.
A MinGW official developer:
"Be careful here. tdragon's builds have:
  a) --enable-fully-dynamic-string
  b) a backported version of the horrible *3*.*4*.5 hack that allowed
throwing exceptions across DLLs, even with a static libgcc.a. Danny says
that this hack is so ugly it will /not/ be officially ported forward to
*4*.x.
"
http://www.nabble.com/status-of-the-gcc-4.3.0-port-td21747697.html



2009/3/9 Andre Poenitz <andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>

> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 12:18:13AM -0300, Wilton sampaio wrote:
> > Well,
> > Let try to shape my question to real English.
> >
> > The MinGW for windows IS with development HALTED , the latest version is
> > uses a ancient GCC and GDB build. The tdragon 4.3 builds are Non-usable.
>
> Could you be so kind and elaborate a bit on that? There have been a few
> messages - sent both to the list and privately - that tdragon's gcc build
> is the greatest thing since sliced bread and that it is the one and only
> thing that has to been supported. Now you label it as "non-usable".
>
> For a non-Windows person this pretty much looks like whatever is done,
> there will be someone very unhappy and vocal about it.
>
> > [...]
> > I prefer the second option, and as i known , the Visual C++ Express comes
> > with a fullfetured compiler and debugger, and it can compile Qt fine.
> > And qouting Qt developers(
> >
> http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2007/09/18/qtwindows-open-source-edition-to-support-vs-express/
> )
> > : "The Visual Studio Express environment is just so much superior and
> > easier to use for existing Windows developers compared to what MinGW
> > provides."
>
> I understand that refers to the environment, not the compiler (alone?),
> and stems from a time where there was no Qt Creator on Windows. I also
> see that the third comment to it is "Huh?? Who cares about Visual Studio
> Express? Eclipse rocks!" - so also in this case the asserted superiority
> does not go undisputed by the public.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I am just trying to understand the situation.
> Declaring three or four systems on Windows "primary" does not look like
> a good investment of Creator's core development resources.
>
> On the Linux side (which is often chastised for being "fragmented") such
> "problems" are typically solved by the distributions. If there is
> interest in having some software on a certain distribution, somebody
> will just create a package, often without even telling the makers of the
> software. And that's fine, it's how it is supposed to be.  I wonder
> whether this system could work on Windows, too...
>
> Andre'
>
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