On 6 January 2013 13:51, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com> wrote: > On domingo, 6 de janeiro de 2013 09.53.05, Sze Howe Koh wrote: >> On 6 January 2013 09:40, Karl Ruetz <karl.ru...@ruetzdogz.com> wrote: >> > I thought Mingw was not supported for Qt 5. >> > >> > Karl >> >> MinGW is a Tier 1 platform >> (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.devel/7669) > > Wrong. At this point, MinGW qualifies as Tier 3 or unsupported, since it was > not tested or released during 5.0.0. That situation may change in the coming > releases. > >> , so it is >> indeed supported. See also >> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtdoc/supported-platforms.html > > It's not supported for 5.0.0. You can try the latest Git branches (stable or > dev) and work on making it supported for future releases. That's how it will > rise from its unsupported status to Tier 1 or so. > >> It's just that last-minute issues prevented the inclusion of a >> MinGW-based precompiled library in the Qt 5.0.0 release. (IIRC, there >> was some difficulty in getting MinGW to compile Qt WebKit) > > It wasn't last-minute. We've known of issues since August, at the time of the > beta1. We never produced a MinGW binary (first binaries were produced in > September and released in October). > > So, no, it was not last-minute. Therefore, MinGW does not qualify for Tier 1 > in Qt 5.0.0.
Ouch, that was a lot of misinformation in a single post... sorry for the noise. I haven't built Qt 5 using MinGW since the beta days, but I'm interested in having MinGW support. I'll see if I can help iron things out. Regards, Sze-Howe _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development