[Interest] Qt 5.5.1 & MSVC 2015

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday 24 August 2015 11:36:36 mark diener wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> wrote:
> > Compile from sources, for now.
> 
> Thanks Thiago.
> 
> Has anybody built qt5.5.0 from sources with MSVC2015?

Yes. I have been doing just that since last November.

> There are people on the list that will want to build qt5.5.0 and qt5.5.1 if
> we must wait until qt5.6 to get a MSVC2015 binary build
> using Windows 10.
> 
> So I would like to document a HOWTO for people in the community to repeat
> step-by-step to build Qt5.5.0 from sources.

configure -platform win32-msvc2015 [your other configure options]
nmake

> I did try to compile from qt.5.5.0 sources and ran into openssl path
> errors.  Once I solve the openssl problems, I will likely run into others.

Unrelated to MSVC 2015.

> Building from sources
> is trivial when everything goes right.
> 
> Since openssl is needed and it does not come standard on a Windows machine,
> and since there is no "yum install openssl" on Windows 10, I found
> a MSVC2015 compiled developer ready package for the latest library and
> header files from the following link:
> 
> http://p-nand-q.com/programming/windows/openssl-1.0.2d-32bit-release-dll-vs2
> 015.7z
> 
> Unzipped an put into: C:\macdev\openssl  directory

Then add to configure:
	-IC:\macdev\poenssl\include -LC:\macdev\openssl\lib -openssl

[I see you have in your script]

> MANY SSL ERRORS ABOVE - But the net result:
> c:\macdev\qt550\src\qtbase\src\network\ssl\qsslsocket_p.h(185): error
> C2061: syntax error: identifier 'QSslCertificate'

The most important error is the first.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center