compiler for KDE4/win32 binary packages

[Ralf Habacker]

Ralf Habacker schrieb:
> Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> On win32 we support two compilers to compile kde4. Because they're 
>> binary incompatible, it is not possible to mix mingw and msvc libs and 
>> executables and we have to take care that the end-user does not get 
>> into this situation. 
>>     
> I have already thought about this situation and comes to the solution 
> that is required to have different installation roots and packages 
> easily identifable as mingw and msvc package as already happen for 
> kdesupport and qt area of http://download.cegit.de/kde-windows/. I'm 
> planning also to add a "used compiler mode" to the kdewin installer to 
> avoid such problems.
> This is also the reason for the announced kdewin.cmake  module. It uses  
> compiler specific search path for kdewin installation like 
> <programfiles>/kdewin-msvc and <programfiles>/kdewin-mingw.
>
>   
>> Also msvc is not supported by the open-source version of Qt4.
>>     
> Is this really a problem ? Couldn't we made a statement in the installer 
> or the download page about this  ?
>   
>> So my question is - are there any objections against the plan to 
>> release binaries for mingw only?
>>     
> The situation for mingw is that we have to build a binary release for 
> our own  because of the missing qdbus support in trolltechs mingw 
> release., so trolltech will not take care about our mingw binaries.
>
> msvc has the real advantage that there is a good source debugger inside. 
> I have recognized these advantage in the last weeks while debugging the 
> kdewin-installer.  I found it a nightmare to debug a kde/qt application 
> using command line gdb on win32 (or I'm to the only one which have this 
> problem? ). I believe that KDE development on windows will not really 
> take place if there is only gdb in the future. This is the reason why I 
> think that msvc binaries will be required.
>   
There are other IDE's outside like CodeBlocks and  DevCpp. Does anyone 
know if they would be usable and could replace the MS IDE ?

Ralf