[Qt-creator] Is MSVC on Windows supported?
Coda Highland
chighland at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 16:18:38 CEST 2012
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Joerg Bornemann
<joerg.bornemann at nokia.com> wrote:
> On 05/09/2012 13:58, ext Christian Kandeler wrote:
>
>> I don't understand the logic of this last sentence. People who use Qt
>> won't use C++11?
>
> This implication was not intended.
> Let there be program P, with P entirely based on Qt. Let F_P be the set
> of C++ features P uses, F_MS be the set of C++ feature MSVC supports and
> F_GW the set of C++ features MinGW supports.
> Proposition: F_P = F_P \cap F_GW \cap F_MS
> \Rightarrow
> there's no reason to build P using MinGW on Windows.
>
Who cares about C++ features? gcc 4.7 is a better compiler than
MSVC2010, so unless Microsoft has gotten off their collective behinds
with 2012 it's likely that gcc 4.7 is going to be a better compiler
than that, too. The problem is with MinGW's standard libraries, not
with the compiler.
/s/ Adam
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