Re: [Development] Proposal: Disable ActiveQt from MinGW

2013-11-06 Thread cristian.adam
+cristian.adam=nokia@qt-project.org [development-bounces+cristian.adam=nokia@qt-project.org] on behalf of ext Koehne Kai [kai.koe...@digia.com] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 11:24 AM To: development@qt-project.org Subject: [Development] Proposal: Disable ActiveQt from MinGW Hi, I'm wond

Re: [Development] Proposal: Disable ActiveQt from MinGW

2013-10-11 Thread Koehne Kai
> -Original Message- > From: Pau Garcia i Quiles [mailto:pgqui...@elpauer.org] > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 4:13 PM > To: Koehne Kai > Cc: development@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Development] Proposal: Disable ActiveQt from MinGW > > > > >

Re: [Development] Proposal: Disable ActiveQt from MinGW

2013-10-10 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Koehne Kai wrote: > Fair enough. We're even shipping it in the mingw-builds toochain, although > it's named 'i686-w64-mingw32-widl' :) > > Let's see, maybe I can get the combo even working... > > Depending on where that executable is located, it may not be the ri

Re: [Development] Proposal: Disable ActiveQt from MinGW

2013-10-10 Thread Koehne Kai
> -Original Message- > From: Pau Garcia i Quiles [mailto:pgqui...@elpauer.org] > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 11:44 AM > To: Koehne Kai > Cc: development@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Development] Proposal: Disable ActiveQt from MinGW > > Hello, > >

Re: [Development] Proposal: Disable ActiveQt from MinGW

2013-10-10 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Hello, Wine provides an IDL compiler, which has been adopted my mingw-w64: http://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/mingw-w64-tools/widl/ Mozilla is using it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Cross_Compile_Mozilla_for_Mingw32#Install_widl_(optional) On Thu, Oct 10, 2013

[Development] Proposal: Disable ActiveQt from MinGW

2013-10-10 Thread Koehne Kai
Hi, I'm wondering whether we should remove ActiveQt from the MinGW binary packages, and skip it by default if we build for MinGW. I'm not an expert on ActiveQt, but my understanding is that it's of minor use without an IDL compiler. MinGW doesn't offer one, which is why all examples except the