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Is it at all feasible (either currently, or with continued future development/enhancement) to think of using the wxQt port in a more broad "generic" manner than that for which it appears to have been designed ? In other words, to use wxQt as a basis for mobile apps that could run on iOS, Android, and even Windows Phone ? Since Qt supports those platforms, could Qt be used to abstract away the platform specifics of all of those, and provide a single API which wx could wrap ?

The reason I ask this is because I have written an app based on wxMSW, and I would like to port it to mobile devices. Will I need to abandon wx and rewrite my app's UI in something like Qt or JUCE ? Or is there any hope that something like wxQt could get me there ? The Android and/or iOS ports of wx seem like other options. However, my first interest is Windows Phone. Secondly, getting my app running on a single port of wx (wxQt) seems like it would be easier that having to use two or three separate wx ports to cover all possibilities.
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In other words, to use wxQt as a basis for mobile apps that could run on iOS, Android, and even Windows Phone ? Since Qt supports those platforms, could Qt be used to abstract away the platform specifics of all of those, and provide a single API which wx could wrap ?
I think that was the main motivation behind the Qt port anyway.

But i haven't heard of anyone who actually did this. I'd by quite interested myself to see if this works.
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Hi,
I believe the last GSoC proved it.

The work by Mariano Reingard was done with exactly that aim in mind. And he did developed the Android app.

I just don't remember if he put it in the Android Store....

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Thanks for your comments.

Maybe this is not a crazy idea ?
How would I get started ?

I assume I'd need to somehow make a build of wxQt on Windows, since my first interest is to make a version of my app for Windows Phone.
Does anyone have any guidance or suggestions on how to do this ?
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The only documentation i could find is in <wxdir>/docs/qt/ , but it doesn't mention building wxQT under Windows, only Linux.

If that doesn't help you, please ask on the wx-users mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wx-users
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Hi,
Building wxQt on Windows most likely is not supported. And since there is no maintainer for wxQt I think that you are on you own.
You can try cross-compiling wxQt for Windows on Linux and see if it works.

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BTW, it looks like wxQt was added for consideration for current year GSoC.
Hopefully its not too late and this project will be added.
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