[Qt-interest] Qt opensource on windows 64

[Constantin Makshin]

I harnessed the capabilities of my shiny 64-bit Windows system by using  
64-bit Microsoft compiler to build Qt from the sources (I haven't even  
looked at the Qt SDK). :)

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:00:25 +0300, André Somers <andre at familiesomers.nl>  
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> "Constantin Makshin" <dinosaur-rus at users.sourceforge.net> schreef in  
> bericht news:op.uqla8eldp27x8p at dinosaur-rus.lcl.starlink.ru...
>> IIRC, Visual Studio Express doesn't support development of 64-bit
>> applications. You'll have to use the compiler from Windows SDK and
>> stand-alone version of the debugger. Quite inconvenient...
>>
>> Officially, MinGW doesn't have a 64-bit compiler, too. There's an
>> unofficial 64-bit Windows version of GCC at
>> http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net . You may try it.
>
> That MinGW version is exactly how far I got, actually. Problem is: how to
> make Qt play nice with it? I downloaded the SDK, but it ships it's own
> version of MinGW, which is based on a very version of GCC. I can't  
> imagine I'm the first to actually try to harnass the capabilities of his
> shiny 64 bit machine on Windows?
>
> André

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Constantin "Dinosaur" Makshin