Switch to MSVC 9.0 (aka 2008 express

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Patrick Spendrin wrote:
> Abdelrazak Younes schrieb:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am involved in the LyX project and Peter Kummel had made easy to use 
>> your Qt and GnuWin32 binaries for us (thanks by the way Peter ;-) . I am 
>> happy to report that your installer worked perfectly and I am very 
>> impressed by it. Would you consider switching to MSVC 2008?
>>     
> Probably not that fast.
>   
I am using MSV2008 for LyX development and it seems that there are some 
compatibility problems with the MSVC2005 generated Qt libraries; two 
times out of three, Windows (Vista) tells me that the entry point for 
?deref at QBasicAtomicInt@@QAE_NXZ is missing in QtCore4.dll.

>> Another question, I know that LyX is not a KDE project but it makes 
>> heavily use of Qt and your devel packages contains everything needed to 
>> buid it. Would you consider adding LyX to your build bot?
>>     
> No non-human build bot available currently.
>   
Too bad :-/

> But I think it would be not a great deal to add LyX to our packages in 
> the end.
>   
IMHO your installer has a great potential to become a de facto standard 
for free software distribution in general. I know that Windows users are 
used to installer for every little program but I reckon there is a need 
for a consistent packaging system "à la" cygwin. That's why I asked.

Another question, would it be possible to also include the Qt debug 
libraries (QtCore4d, etc)?

Thanks for the answer,
Abdel.