On Tuesday 16 June 2009, Till Adam wrote: > Guys, ladies, questioning and/or transitioning folk and those who transcend > gender categories, > > please find attached two patches, one against the cmake findkde4internl > module in kdelibs, one against kdesupport's top level CMakeLists.txt, which > add the use of -mms-bitfields to the C and CXX flags when building with/for > mingw. The need for them was brought to our attention by a nasty bug caused > by incompatible memory layouts between gpgme and gpgme++/qgpgme due to > their (gnupg's) use of this flag. They use it, because all of their > depedencies have it (notably gtk) and a somewhat in-depth google confirms > that that seems to be pretty standard practise, among those shipping for > mingw. It basically tell gcc to be msvc compatible, for C libs, if I > understand correctly, and should cause no harm, provided everything is > built with it consistently. I guess it makes sense for KDE to go with the > majority opinion here. Ultimately I lack insight and overview in this > matter, though, so I'd like to hear your (kde- buildsystem's) opinions.
No objections from the cmake side, but I can't judge about the usefulness etc. Alex _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list Kde-windows@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows
