[Qt-creator] Is MSVC on Windows supported?

[Peter Kümmel]

On 05.09.2012 14:04, eike.ziller at nokia.com wrote:
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> On 5 Sep 2012, at 12:34, ext Peter Kümmel <syntheticpp at gmx.net> wrote:
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>> I wonder how you build on Windows, or even care about MS's compiler:
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>> - jom breaks, bad path name:
>> Error: dependent
>> '..\..\..\lib\qtcreator\plugins\Nokia\e:\sandbox\creator\qt-creator\src\plugins\coreplugin\Core.pluginspec' does not exist.
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>> - nmake breaks: Makefile.Release(563) : fatal error U1033: Syntaxfehler: ":" unerwartet
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>> - Studio -tp vc: didn't start because it can't find plugins
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>> 2.5, Qt 4.8, msvc10, cmd.exe,
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>> shadow dir on different drive
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> This is known to not be well supported (by qmake?) and may lead to funny errors, if I remember correctly.

Once I reported a bug because the build directory was on the same level as sources.

Qt/QtCreator needs much more build bots, like CMake:
	http://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=CMake
not only a hand full.

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>> and on checkout-dir level
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>> Peter
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