Summary of bug description

• MITK currently does not compile with MinGW. Supporting MinGW would have many benefits:
• Better Qt integration (Qt Installer for Windows come only pre-compiled with MinGW)
• Support a non-commercial compiler
• Broaden the range of potential users

• Support Windows development with tools like Eclipse and QtCreator

Cause of the bug

No one cared enough, yet.

Proposed solution

• Change the build-system to adapt to MinGW specific behaviour.
• Change code like #ifde _MSC_VER and fix arising problems

Affected classes

The build system will be affected, and Core and CoreUI classes as needed to compile under MinGW

How will the bugfix get tested?

A dartclient should compile MITK with MinGW every night.