[Qt-creator] Qt Creator 3.4 binaries will be compiled with MSVC 2013 (dynamic opengl)

[Peter Kuemmel]

> 
> What are the reasons for deploying with MinGW? :)
> 

Dropping MSVC at all because of the bad C++11/14 support ;)

But I see, only reason not to drop is debugging.

> > Is it just the hope a msvc build is faster, or are some things broken/not
> > available when build with MinGW?
> 
> Last time I checked, Qt Creator compiled with MSVC was indeed (albeit marginally) faster on startup than the same one compiled with a MinGW toolchain.
> 
> Anyhow, most Qt Creator developers on Windows use MSVC, so that's IMO a good enough reason to stick to it for the binaries, too. 
> 
> Aside from personal preference, there are also practical reasons for this: You still can't actually debug Qt Creator in gdb on Windows because it runs out of memory ...
> 
> Regards
> 
> Kai 
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