[Releasing] MinGW 4.8.1 upgrade for 5.2 - InterlockedCompareExchange conflict

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexey Pavlov [mailto:alexpux at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 6:19 PM
> To: Koehne Kai
> Cc: releasing at qt-project.org; Mingwbuilds-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Releasing] MinGW 4.8.1 upgrade for 5.2 -
> InterlockedCompareExchange conflict
> 
> [...]
> Maybe we can create new gcc-4.8.0 build with older runtime where issue
> with  InterlockedCompareExchange is resolved and where you don't need
> patches for stock Qt-5.1.1.

That'll still require a recompile of Qt 5.1.0 / Qt 5.1.1 , and reshipping it ... I honestly don't think it's worth the hassle.


> In any case I sometimes rebuild latest released Qt5 with our latest toolchains.
> My builds are located here:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/files/external-binary-
> packages/Qt-Builds.

Yeah, thanks a lot for this, it's certainly an option to just point people screaming for the latest gcc there :)

Kai