Native binaries for Windows on ARM 64 hardware

What is the benefit? Why is this valuable?

Microsoft and multiple independent hardware vendors are moving away from Intel's x86 architecture and embracing the far more power-frugal ARM architecture.

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Thus developers require the ability to execute the full suite of their tools (including Qt Creator) on ARM-based computers. While the emulation capabilties of Windows operating system mostly hide the hardware differences, there are issues that require manual configuration steps (e.g. compiler detection). The emulation methods used in context of Qt Creator 14 shall be superseded by fully native support in Qt Creator 15.

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The user experience for developers is significantly worse if they are required to tweak the tool settings manually.

What are common use cases?

The essentialest use cases provided by Qt Creator: build applications, create devices.

Technical information

• Corresponding feature on the framework side
• Bug ticket that describes the issue and contains link to ongoing Teams-discussion

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