[Releasing] Binary packages for Qt 5.4 / Qt WebEngine 1.0

[Koehne Kai]

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> [...]
> So, you are not alone in this requirement. It's a matter of changing the
> configure scripts to allow building from a non-x64 command prompt within
> the 64-bit environment. If we made this a hard requirement across the
> board, we could even drop the win-msvc2013-x86 stage *nodes*, and just
> make sure the relevant stages are executing with the correct (x86, ARM, X64)
> vcvars.

Isn't this just a matter of executing

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat x86_amd64"

instead of

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat amd64"

In the setup phase? I don't think the Qt configure scripts itself needs any tweaking. Or have you meant exactly this?

Regards

Kai

> Cheers,
> Andrew
> 
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> Albisser Zeno [Zeno.Albisser at digia.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 2:56 PM
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> Subject: [Releasing] Binary packages for Qt 5.4 / Qt WebEngine 1.0
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> As you might already know, Qt WebEngine for Windows can only be built on
> a 64bit machine. This is a strict requirement imposed by Chromium. However
> Chromium used to build 32bit binaries only for quite a long time, and
> Windows 64bit support has only been added very recently.
> Further requirements on Windows are ANGLE and msvc2013.
> 
> Matching this with our packaging infrastructure leaves us with a single build
> to produce packages: win-msvc2013-Windows8.1-x64_ANGLE Assuming that
> the x64 in the name resembles both host and target operating system.
> 
> This also means that we will not have 32bit Windows packages that include
> QtWebEngine. And I think this is something we might want to change.
> 
> I believe the only change necessary to allow building 32bit Windows packages
> is to change the configuration win-msvc2013-Windows8.1-x86_ANGLE to be
> actually running on a Windows x64 installation. Do you think this change is
> feasible?
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Zeno Albisser
> 
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