[Qt-interest] Suggestions for future Qt versions

[Thiago Macieira]

Constantin Makshin wrote:
>MinGW builds seem to use "libzdll.a" as an import library name.
>I couldn't find any Borland C++ project files that build zlib as a
> dynamic library.
>
>So use "-lzdll" for MinGW and "zlib1.lib" for MSVC:
>win32-mingw: LIBS += -lzdll
>win32-msvc*: LIBS += zlib1.lib
>
>>  3) does the configure.exe accept -system-zlib? If not, it needs to be
>> modified (source is in tools/configure) to accept it.
>
>Yes, it does. All I had to modify were these Qt project files.

Good.

Can you prepare a new patch with the mingw changes too? I'll pass it along 
to our team doing Windows to test it out.

>Wouldn't you change "win32-msvc2005|win32-msvc2008" in
>"mkspecs/features/win32/embed_manifest_*" files to "win32-msvc2*"?
> This'll make life of some people like me (I use different mkspecs for
> 32-bit and 64-bit builds) a bit easier and make these options (or
> however they should be called) compatible with future versions of
> Visual Studio.

Well, MSVC 2003 doesn't need it. And reading Microsoft blogs, apparently 
neither will 2010.

But it sounds reasonable enough to add the * at the end.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) nokia.com
  Senior Product Manager - Nokia, Qt Software
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