Trolltech ports Qt 4 to Windows CE and Windows Mobile

[eddie]

Since October 2006 we’ve been porting Qt 4.x to Windows CE 5.0 and Windows Mobile 5.0 and we’re starting to get somewhere, so I thought it was time to break the news. The plan is to have a Technology Preview ready late this summer, and have a final release together with the rest of Qt 4.4.0 sometime next year.

So how far are we? We’ve ported QtCore, QtGui and QAxContainer (ActiveQt) as well as updated the buildsystem (configure.exe, qmake etc.) for supporting shadowbuilds and compiling to host and target platforms. We’ve got our QMenu stuff integrated into the native Windows Mobile menubars, and we’ve got two new styles: Windows CE and Windows Mobile. We’re also running nightly autotests of the Qt/CE branch running through the hundreds of autotests we’ve got for our different modules. Wanna have a look? Here is some obligatory screenshots:

Source: Trolltech Labs

Whyyyyy. Cant they just put that exclusive only to linux instead of windows?.

[mehulved]

Qt has been available on windows and OS X since long, maybe even before KDE came up. So, this isn't unexpected at all.

[eddie]

Why do you want it to be exclusive to Linux? If Trolltech becomes reasonably successful then they might sell lots of commercial licenses which will help them to become bigger and better...in turn helping Linux. Organisations supporting FOSS do need the money you know