[Qt-creator] Is MSVC on Windows supported?

[kai.koehne at nokia.com]

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> From: qt-creator-bounces+kai.koehne=nokia.com at qt-project.org [mailto:qt-
> creator-bounces+kai.koehne=nokia.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of ext
> Coda Highland
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 4:19 PM
> To: Bornemann Joerg (Nokia-MP/Berlin)
> Cc: qt-creator at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Is MSVC on Windows supported?
> 
> 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.

Define 'better' . I'm right now having the joy to more or less continuously compile Qt 5 with different MinGW variants, and it's really, really, dog slow. 

(MSVC is slow too, compared to gcc on Linux. But MinGW gcc takes slowness really to the next level...)

Kai

who is aware that this is now pretty off topic ...

> /s/ Adam
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