[Development] Automatic detection of Visual Studio Compiler

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 26 April 2017 06:23:44 -03 Joerg Bornemann wrote:
> On 26/04/2017 10:01, Welsch, Christoph wrote:
> > Project ERROR: msvc-version.conf loaded but QMAKE_MSC_VER isn't set

> > I’ve noticed that in QT 5.9 beta 2 the mkspecs for Visual Studio have
> > changed to some kind of automatic detection. If I use win32-msvc, it
> > seems that the studio version is not correctly detected and the
> > configure script fails.
> 
> As far as I can tell your configure line looks OK. Please create a bug
> report for this at https://bugreports.qt.io/ to track this.
> Please include a description of how you've set up your build
> environment, exact VS version etc.

Before you do, please NUKE your build dir and make sure your source dir is 
squeaky clean (delete and unpack again).

Another person reported the same error and this solved the configure step for 
them. When I had that issue, it was a matter of cleaning up.

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