<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM Neal Gompa <<a href="mailto:ngompa13@gmail.com">ngompa13@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 4:20 AM Ben Cooksley <<a href="mailto:bcooksley@kde.org" target="_blank">bcooksley@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM Sune Vuorela <<a href="mailto:nospam@vuorela.dk" target="_blank">nospam@vuorela.dk</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On 2025-11-25, Albert Astals Cid <<a href="mailto:aacid@kde.org" target="_blank">aacid@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > B) KDE Frameworks shall compile with the major compilers: gcc, clang and<br>
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>> mingw as well, please :)<br>
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> No thanks. Mingw is awful to support and I've been pushing for a while that we should drop supporting it.<br>
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I don't think it's that bad, I do all of my Windows builds through<br>
MinGW and it's fine.<br>
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> 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.<br>
> Anything requiring QtWebEngine cannot be built with MingW anyway.<br>
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Why not? Is it just a lack of available builds? Or something else?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth!<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Ben </div></div></div>