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[mingw android]

Hi,

We're thinking of having an IRC mini-conference to discuss what we
could/should work on next. It'd be great if as many of you can attend
as possible.

We were thinking of doing it tonight but I think that's a bit short
notice for everyone (but if a load of you say "yeah let's do it
tonight" then probably fine), so Sunday or Monday night (somewhere
between UK and Romania time-zone) is currently looking like the best
time. Please reply if (and when) you can attend, and also it'd be good
if you can list the things that you'd like to see addressed.

To kick things off, here's a list of the things on my radar:

0. Unify the build process temporary folder to somewhere that works on
all systems. Windows can't use /tmp as MinGW maps that to %TEMP% which
is in the User's AppData folder. The installer makes assumptions about
where things were
    built.
1. Fix the plugins copying (in general, using cp, rm etc) on Windows
-> 2 ways, I can provide these exes or we can get platform detection
working properly and switch on it in the mkspecs)
2. Update GDB to 7.3 (thumb2 improvements)
3. Finish the WIP NDK build script to get latest Google git and build
that (so we can roll out fixes quickly, e.g.
https://review.source.android.com//#change,21309)
4. Investigate using UDP instead of TCP/IP for GDB, if it's faster,
otherwise investigate if adb can be sped up, network-wise. Both
changes probably require changing adb executable, unfortunately.
5. Push some of my Windows fixes to Qt mainline (stuff to make it
build/work under MinGW, though there's a few things I should fix in
this stuff first).
6. Make it so that the Windows version can be built from Linux (mingw
cross compiler support, quite a lot of work, esp. building Python
which needs to run itself to compile the modules under Wine)
7. Fix make.exe -j support (would help with building on Windows as
otherwise it requires baby-sitting).
8. Add support to 7za and installer-framework for symbolic links on
Windows (see msdos command mklink) so there's no need to remove
symlinks from the packages (and also MinGW's ln program)
9. Investigate OpenGLES 2.0 support (we build QTA for android-4, maybe
for arm-v7a we can switch up to android-5 for the QtA compile (and as
a min version), that way the configure test for OpenGLES 2 will pass
ok and it'll build the library, I know there were issues with the
OpenGL contexts after that but one problem at a time...)
10. See if I can pass off maintainership of either the Windows or Mac
OS X versions to someone else (I'd like to keep hold of one of them,
and don't mind which).
11. Fix webkit build failure on Windows and Mac OS X.
12. Fix installer framework so that it can install from local packages
folder instead of always having to use the network -> this already
works on Mac OS X (just modify config.xml to use file:/usr/www/ etc),
but not on Windows (where it works partially, updates.xml is loaded
but nothing else); I'm not sure about Linux, maybe add a command line
option to override the repo url?