[mythtv] MinGW distributions for Windows builds

[Robert McNamara]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Jeff Lu <jll544 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> With the change to TDM, are you continuing to use the pre-built Qt binaries, or
> are you recompiling Qt from source?
>
> I ask because the Qt 4.6.x binaries may contain references
> that are undefined outside of the official MinGW-gcc 4.4.0
> environment.  E.g., see this thread:
> http://www.qtforum.org/article/29890/qt-4-6-linking-problem.html
>
> Maybe MythTV doesn't trigger the related dependencies (not currently, anyway),
> but given the known issue, it's probably safest to rebuild Qt from source if you
> change the compiler.
>
>
> Jeff

My inclination is not to switch to a compiler that is unsupported with
the version of Qt when we are *just* getting the script to a usable
point.  Since the only issue addressed is an apparent resource
starvation issue when run in a VM, it's hard to justify the risk right
now.  If gcc 4.5.0 is supported with Qt 4.7 (once we apply the fixes
to make myth compile properly with 4.7) then we might be able to
re-evaluate, but for right now, it seems like a lot of risk for
minimal reward.

Robert