[Development] Building Qt5.2 under Visual Studio 2013

[Mitch Curtis]

On 10/07/2013 01:23 PM, Nagy-Egri Máté Ferenc wrote:
> Hi!
> I’m trying to build a program that extensively makes use of the proper
> template machinery under Visual Studio 2013 plus uses Qt GUI libs,
> therefore I took on the venture of building Qt 5.2 with Visual Studio
> 2013. However, configure.bat fails at compilation, namely:
> c:\users\mátéferenc\downloads\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.2.0-alpha\qtbase\src\corelib\tools\qlocale_tools.cpp(1249)
> : fatal error C1001: An internal error has occurred in the compiler.
> (compiler file 'f:\dd\vctools\compiler\utc\src\p2\main.c', line 227)
>   To work around this problem, try simplifying or changing the program
> near the locations listed above.
> Please choose the Technical Support command on the Visual C++
>   Help menu, or open the Technical Support help file for more information
> INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR in 'C:\Kellekek\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 12.0\VC\BIN\x86_amd64\cl.EXE'
>      Please choose the Technical Support command on the Visual C++
>      Help menu, or open the Technical Support help file for more information
> cl : Command line error D8040 : error creating or communicating with
> child process
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Kellekek\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 12.0\VC\BIN\x86_amd64\cl.EXE"' : return code '0x2'
> Stop.
> Building qmake failed, return code 2
> The code line mentioned is the return statement of:
> static Bigint *diff(Bigint *a, Bigint *b)
> As the error message suggests, this is an MSVC issue, but I thought I’d
> share this with the community. VS2013 should be out just before Qt5.2
> sometime in November, so having it as a supported platform would be
> nice. RC can be downloaded, and RTM is about to hit the shelves soon.
> VS2013 is considerably faster both in terms of STL (dunno how much of it
> is used by Qt), but proper templates and the very much capable
> auto-vectorization tool both give a major boost to compilation times as
> well as binary speed.
> My system is 64-bit platform, Windows 8, VS2013 Ultimate RC. Qt is 5.2
> alpha and configuration options are:
> configure.bat -platform win32-msvc2013 -opensource -debug-and-release
> -c++11 -mp -opengl desktop -prefix C:\Kellekek\Qt\5.2-alpha -bindir
> C:\Kellekek\Qt\5.2-alpha\bin\x64 -libdir C:\Kellekek\Qt\5.2-alpha\lib\x64
> Should the error be addressed on the project side or be reported to MS
> and hope a fix comes before final version?
> Best regards,
> Máté
>
>
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https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-33511