On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 4:20 AM Ben Cooksley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM Sune Vuorela <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> 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? > WebEngine is a fickle creature to compile at the best of times. It's been the source of more than a few headaches over the years. For proprietary OSes it is essentially supported by Qt only on the platform provided native compilers - so AppleClang/XCode on macOS, and MSVC/Visual Studio on Windows. > > > > -- > 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! > Thanks, Ben
