[Interest] Qt 4.8.4 support for Visual Studio 2012

Michael Jackson imikejackson at gmail.com
Wed Apr 10 21:47:28 CEST 2013


On Apr 10, 2013, at 3:42 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> On quarta-feira, 10 de abril de 2013 19.32.25, Eric Clark wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> 
>> I was wondering if anyone knew whether or not Qt would be building 4.8.4 or
>> any future release of 4.x.x using Visual Studio 2012? I know that Qt 5.x
>> has builds for Visual Studio 2012, but we are not quite ready to port to Qt
>> 5 yet. Therefore, a build of Qt 4 using Visual Studio 2012 would be very
>> nice for us. If there is no intention of releasing a 2012 build, then we
>> will go ahead and build it ourselves. Any help is very much appreciated!!
> 
> Hi Eric
> 
> I doubt we'll produce binaries for VS2012, but you should be able to build the 
> sources yourself.
> 
> The mkspec for VS2012 is present in the 4.8.4 sources.
> 
> I *think* there was a small glitch somewhere in building, but I can't recall 
> the details and in which version it may have been fixed. If you find a 
> compilation error when compiling, please report it as a bug.
> 
> -- 
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center


I built Qt 4.8.4 with VS 2012 Express. Make sure you have VS2012 Fully up to date with ALL the patches and service releases and Qt 4.8.4 built just fine on a Windows 7 x64 system where I built 64 bit Qt Binaries.

--

Mike Jackson




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