Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > First, it looks like that the 2010 libraries can work with at least MSVC > 2012. Is that because MSVC 2010 is or was also installed on the same > machine? If so, releasing such a hybrid might give troubles that won't be > foreseen. So, better to warn Uwe as he claims to have tested with MSVC > 2012 and Qt 5.5.
Very good point! Mixing libraries from different MSVC versions can indeed cause subtle, very hard to find bugs. In the past this did even happen between service packs, i.e. you could not compile one library with MSVC 2005 and another one with MSVC 2005SP1, and then link both together into one executable (well you could do so, but the problems started to appear at runtime). Thus this must be avoided by any means. > Second, I guess it's up to me to figure out compiling the dependencies. I > remember that Joost had manually changed gettext to be able to make > suitable libraries. Did we get rid of gettext libs completely or do we > still need it (besides the msgmerge and friends applications) ? Of course, if no MSVC uodate is required for the new qt, then we can distentangle the 2.2 release and the new dependencies. I somehow remembered a statement that something did not work with MSVC 2001 anymore. Georg
