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

[Sven Grunewaldt]

Am 05.03.2009 12:58, schrieb Jesús Fernández:
> You can use QtCreator with all the compilers :P
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Sven Grunewaldt 
> <strayer at olle-orks.org <mailto: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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Hi Jesús,

I already read that I can use nmake with QtCreator, but as far as I know 
I won't be able to debug with it?

Regards,
Sven Grunewaldt
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