On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 4:20 AM Ben Cooksley <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM Sune Vuorela <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 2025-11-25, Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > B) KDE Frameworks shall compile with the major compilers: gcc, clang and
>> > msvc(for Frameworks that claim Windows support)
>>
>> mingw as well, please :)
>
>
> No thanks. Mingw is awful to support and I've been pushing for a while that 
> we should drop supporting it.
>

I don't think it's that bad, I do all of my Windows builds through
MinGW and it's fine.

> The only reason it is around is because we have autotools based dependencies, 
> and the correct fix for those is to either get the dependency to use a real 
> build system or to drop them in favour of something that is reasonable.
> Anything requiring QtWebEngine cannot be built with MingW anyway.
>

Why not? Is it just a lack of available builds? Or something else?




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