Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
  • Search
  • Get Qt Extensions
  • Unsolved
Collapse
Brand Logo
  1. Home
  2. Qt Development
  3. General and Desktop
  4. Qt for Windows IA64
Forum Updated to NodeBB v4.3 + New Features

Qt for Windows IA64

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General and Desktop
5 Posts 4 Posters 2.7k Views 1 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • R Offline
    R Offline
    redscorp
    wrote on last edited by
    #1

    Hi All!

    I’ve got Itanium (IA64) hardware with Windows Server installed and, as far as I am an old fan of Qt, I wanted to run Qt on this HW natively. After some minor Qt code patching I was able to get some demos running well (see http://redscorp.livejournal.com/42985.html for some screenshots). Some components as expected are not working, but this is not relevant for now...

    Basically I wanted to ask Qt community about some things:

    1. Whether Qt was already compiled/tested for Windows IA64 ever before?

    2. Whether anyone (besides me) is interested in native IA64 build of Qt? Developers and testers are welcome.

    3. I can commit my patches to Qt repository. Whether Qt community is interested in this code? As I can imagine the more platforms Qt can be compiled to is better?

    Feedbacks are welcome!

    WBR,
    redscorp

    http://linkedin.com/in/andriygolovnya
    http://sf.net/users/andrew_golovnia
    http://sf.net/u/userid-150775/profile/

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
    • D Offline
      D Offline
      dangelog
      wrote on last edited by
      #2

      I'm not sure how popular IA-64 is these days :-) but I think there's nothing wrong with keeping Qt running on that platform. The only issue I see is the inherent difficulty in testing the builds.

      Do you mind asking on #qt-labs on Freenode or on the development mailing list?

      Software Engineer
      KDAB (UK) Ltd., a KDAB Group company

      1 Reply Last reply
      0
      • B Offline
        B Offline
        broadpeak
        wrote on last edited by
        #3

        Probably a fresh bad news for ia64 programmers,

        Ulrich Drepper will remove the ia64 support from the glibc:

        http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2011-12/msg00001.html

        (of course ia64 is not equal x86-64 !)

        1 Reply Last reply
        0
        • R Offline
          R Offline
          redscorp
          wrote on last edited by
          #4

          I wouldn't state ia64 is dead. From my understanding this architecture is much more advanced than x86 and x64 together. It's really is disappointing that ia64 is not popular enough, but it's not important for this forum thread. But, actually, I do understand your point, broadpeak.

          http://linkedin.com/in/andriygolovnya
          http://sf.net/users/andrew_golovnia
          http://sf.net/u/userid-150775/profile/

          1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • D Offline
            D Offline
            Dimazx8000
            wrote on last edited by
            #5

            Hello. I have an IA64 system. I can test Qt on Windows IA64.
            Not just that, I am interested in using Qt 4.8 also. Qt framework will be very useful for me and I am willing to test.

            1 Reply Last reply
            0

            • Login

            • Login or register to search.
            • First post
              Last post
            0
            • Categories
            • Recent
            • Tags
            • Popular
            • Users
            • Groups
            • Search
            • Get Qt Extensions
            • Unsolved