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

[Andre Poenitz]

ext Wilton sampaio wrote:
> 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)

I you use qmake from a Qt that was configured for MSVC the created
Makefiles will be nmake makefiles already and Creator will call nmake.

> If i do a patch it will ever be considered ?

Sure.
 
> 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 ?

Supporting the MS debugger is being thought of.
I doubt there will be a "handcrafted" debugger, though.

>> 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

But ABI incompatibility should not lead to a situation where
something does not compile. Didn't this thread start by tdragon's
gcc not running?

Andre'