Re: [Msys2-users] There is no qtwebengine packages? And while there is clang support yes, there is still some issues, namely some missing headers etc. And clang when qtwebengine is being compiled is compiled in msvc mode, not mingw mode.

[Zach B. <wow...@gm...>]

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On Sun., Aug. 15, 2021, 2:00 a.m. hung.nguyengia, <
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> I have my own research meanwhile. It seems due to Google Chrome requiring
> MSVC on Windows. But this information is long obsolete. Nowadays Chrome on
> Windows was built using Clang. Anyone even try building qtwebengine on
> MSYS2 with clang64? It seems it's not a technical problem now but it's the
> qt guys not updated their stack as they still insisting on MSVC.
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> On Sunday, August 15th, 2021 at 12:01 PM, Zach Bacon <wow...@gm...>
> wrote:
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> > Webengine unfortunately is not compilable with mingw compilers
> currently, it would need massive patching to make it work and the technical
> debt with that wouldn't be that feasible at the current time considering
> most of the developers are working in their spare time.
> >
> > On Sun., Aug. 15, 2021, 12:28 a.m. hung.nguyengia via Msys2-users, <
> msy...@li...> wrote:
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> > > Just find out this when building a qtwebengine based browser. The
> configuration process failed because of missing qtwebengine and I searched
> for the package via pacman -Ss and found nothing. There is only qtwebview
> but not even qtwebkit.
> > >
> > > Please add the qtwebengine and possibly qtwebkit package. Thanks.
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