[Qt-interest] Which compiler would you recommend for Windows?

[Tiago Correia]

I'd recommend to use Visual Studio 2008 Pro.
If you can buy a license to Visual Assist X and problem with IntelliSense
are solved.

Did you try eclipse? I never tried, but might be an option.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Sven Grunewaldt <strayer at olle-orks.org>wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I currently don't know which compiler I should use under windows... I
> have access to Visual Studio 2008 Professional via MSDNAA and there are
> MinGW and TDragons MinGW+GCC4.3 builds.
> Some negative things I discovered so far:
>
> Visual Studio:
>  - one day IntelliSense works, next day it does not...
>  - missing functions, things just done different (GCC: snprintf, MSVC:
> _snprintf and _snprintf_s .. what the?)
>  - missing standards (f.e. C99: variable sized arrays)
>  - Manifests! I spent nearly a week reading about them and I concluded
> that they are just complicated and annoying.
>
> MinGW:
>  - uses a very old gcc version which has problems with exception
> handling (they state this on their mailing list)
>  - "hacky" implementation on windows
>
> TDragons MinGW:
>  - as the MinGW team states it has the same exception handling problems
>  - also "hacky" implementation on windows
>  - tons of warnings because of a GCC bug that is fixed in 4.4 which
> make compiler output very hard to read
>
> Now the advantage of MinGW is that I can use QtCreator, which is a very
> great IDE. VS is (at least in my opinion) bloated and "buggy" (see
> IntelliSense above).
>
> I'm confused :/
> What would YOU recommend? What do the Trolls actually use on Windows?
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