Re:Rust Qt Binding Generator
by danieldk on Friday May 18, 2018 @11:52AM
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Making a working Qt/X11 program work on Windows, on the other hand -- that could be painful.
I maintain a Qt application for Linux/macOS/Windows, with in total ~70kloc the last time I looked. It started as a Linux application, but porting to Windows was not a lot of effort and the amount of platform specific code is very small. The painful part on Windows are some non-Qt dependencies, such as libxml2, libxslt, DB XML, etc.
The port to macOS required much more platform-specific code to implement macOS-specific behavior (such as keeping the application running when the last window closes), building working, signed application bundles, etc.
I maintain a Qt application for Linux/macOS/Windows, with in total ~70kloc the last time I looked. It started as a Linux application, but porting to Windows was not a lot of effort and the amount of platform specific code is very small. The painful part on Windows are some non-Qt dependencies, such as libxml2, libxslt, DB XML, etc.
The port to macOS required much more platform-specific code to implement macOS-specific behavior (such as keeping the application running when the last window closes), building working, signed application bundles, etc.