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Subject: Re: Rant: So you want help?
From: Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date: 2010-11-07 15:04:16
Message-ID: 201011071604.23083.kevin.krammer () gmx ! at
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On Sunday, 2010-11-07, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> On Sunday 07 November 2010, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > So you end up having to build all dependencies with GCC if you want one
> > application to be built with GCC.
>
> And vice versa.
Of course.
> > Maybe the things that are currently a problem for MSVC can be built with
> > a different compiler but one that is following the platform standard?
> > Intel's or Borland's maybe?
>
> The problem will just shift, not go away. Consider your (external)
> dependency is built with MinGW. So building your application with the
> "platform standard" C++-ABI is the wrong thing to do, in this case.
I assumed that Windows had a platform C++ ABI like other OSes, defined by the
OS vendor's C++ compiler. Reading Andrius' reply it doesn't seem there is.
Under that assumption it might have been possible to find a compiler that can
build all dependencies.
> P.S.: But also, I think that supporting multiple compilers can hardly be
> considered a "solution" to the problem, either. It just splits up the set
> of breakages into two distinct sets: those that are broken with MSVC, and
> those that are broken with MinGW (three sets, if you count those that are
> broken with either compiler). Let the user choose: You want bug A or bug
> B?
I wasn't thinking about making an else/or decision, rather having KDE built
with MSVC (again under the assumption that it would be defining the Windows
C++ ABI) and build just applications that need a different compiler with a
different but compatible one.
Since the assumption doesn't hold, there is little point in considering this
an alternative.
Cheers,
Kevin
--
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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