On 2025-11-26, 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. > > 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.
Luckily most of our frameworks doesn't require qtwebengine. I need mingw support in many frameworks for <reasons> - and I do think that we should support using a compile we can actually investigate as needed even on the non-free platforms we support. I'd love to get mingw support back in our CI stack, but I guess we have limited machine capacity. /Sune - who is frequently mingw cross compiling okular and kleopatra and everything they need
