Another point of view to consider re: compiler for KDE4/win32 binary packages

[Kevin Kofler]

Hi,

Since there has been mainly feedback from M$VC users complaining about the 
plan to only provide MinGW binaries and even going as far as suggesting to 
only ship M$VC binaries instead, let me express another point of view which 
appears to have been completely ignored on this list until now: application 
developers who want to cross-compile their applications for Win32 from a 
system like GNU/Linux.

When cross-compiling, I definitely need MinGW binaries of kdelibs. M$VC 
binaries are useless for obvious reasons, and I don't think trying to 
cross-compile all of kdelibs, which probably hasn't ever been tested, is 
going to be a productive use of my time either. Instead, I was able to just 
download the kdelibs 3.80.3 snapshot binaries (which appear not to be 
available anymore, unfortunately) and get a cross-development environment set 
up for my application very quickly. (My application uses qmake to build, 
which can be coaxed into doing cross-compilations with some config file 
trickery, see 
http://tigcc-linux.cvs.sourceforge.net/tigcc-linux/ktigcc/mingw/ . And please 
don't complain about the application not actually working properly on Win32 
right now, that's expected, the port isn't anywhere near complete yet.)

So I hope I made my case in favor of MinGW binaries. Are there any planned for 
Alpha 1?

        Kevin Kofler