Support for MinGW and QtCreator

By Stephen Kellett
4 December, 2009

Everyone uses Visual Studio to write C and C++ software don’t they? Yes! you all chorus. Apart from some guys at the back who like to use gcc and g++. They use MinGW when working on Windows. And they may even use Emacs, or perish the thought, vi!

Up until now we haven’t been able to cater to the needs of gcc and g++ users. We’d get email every month asking when we were going to support MinGW or if we supported QtCreator. It was frustrating admitting we couldn’t support that environment. Even more so as the founders of Software Verification wrote large GIS applications using gcc and g++ back in the early 1990s.

During October we integrated support for MinGW and QtCreator into Coverage Validator, Memory Validator, Performance Validator and Thread Validator. Both COFF and STABS debug formats are supported, which provides some flexibility in how you choose to handle your symbols.

We’ll continue to add support for additional compilers to our tools as long as there is interest from you, the kind people that use our software tools.

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