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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
QtWebEngine has always been a mess of a build on Windows. Very memory intensive. A myriad of tiny build tools and libraries that are already available on Linux and Macs need to be compiled first. The list of pre-requisites for building are also ridiculous. Plus there's a massive linking phase at the end of the process where things slow to a complete crawl (even when limiting parallel jobs to avoid maxing out memory usage). Things actually managed to get inexplicably worse when MSVC became fully 64-bit (the tool chain for building 64-bit binaries was actually 32-bit for years).
It's possible that things might work better on Intel, but I don't have the time (or the money) to build a new Windows machine that will literally sit collecting dust between custom Qt builds. Building Qt for Sigil is the only thing I need a physical Windows machine for these days. If not for QtWebEngine's incompatibility, I could probably do better cross-compiling for Windows with MinGW on Linux.
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You could get a Micro-PC that has a good processor, 32GB Ram, and a 1TB SSD. They are a lot less expensive then a full size desktop. I bought one with a 12th gen 17 and it was less then $500. It came with Windows 11 Pro.