[Qt-creator] vc++ mingw32 Qt

[Andre Poenitz]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 09:07:35PM +0200, John Bull wrote:
> Sorry if there is confusion in the question asked earlier.
> I need to compile a msvc++ project that made use of qt.

Just to confirm: You want to build a Qt based application using
the Microsoft Compiler. That's perfectly possible.

> From what I understand, linking to the libraries just dont work.
> One has to integrate Qt for msvc++ app.

You need to make sure moc, uic, rcc are called properly when needed.
There are several possibilities to do that, I am aware of:

  1. using the Visual Studio IDE with Qt integration/addin.
  2. using the Visual Studio IDE with manually created Custom Build Steps,
  3. using qmake and nmake from a Visual Studio Command Prompt,
  4. using Qt Creator.

> http://geeks.netindonesia.net/blogs/risman/archive/2009/04/02/qt-4-5-with-visual-studio-2008-vc-express.aspx

That's choosing option 1, this should work. 

[However, the reason given there ("My problem with Qt Creator is it uses
MingGW (gcc) compiler which is nowhere near as good as VC++ 2008.") is
outdated if not misleading as Qt Creator can use both MinGW and the
Microsoft compiler, and there are also precompiled binaries at
http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-win-opensource-4.6.1-vs2008.exe,
no need to wait for 4 1/2 hours anymore]

> I followed this link once and it worked (on a vista machine), but now I
> can't find what I am doing wrong.

I don't know either.

Andre'