[Qt-creator] Is MSVC on Windows supported?

[Diego Iastrubni]

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:35 PM, <kai.koehne at nokia.com> wrote:
>
> > Who cares about C++ features? gcc 4.7 is a better compiler than MSVC2010,
> > so unless Microsoft has gotten off their collective behinds with 2012 it's likely
> > that gcc 4.7 is going to be a better compiler than that, too. The problem is with
> > MinGW's standard libraries, not with the compiler.
>
> Define 'better' . I'm right now having the joy to more or less continuously compile Qt 5 with different MinGW variants, and it's really, really, dog slow.
>
> (MSVC is slow too, compared to gcc on Linux. But MinGW gcc takes slowness really to the next level...)
>
> who is aware that this is now pretty off topic ...
>
Actually... I do not believe this is completely of topic. You claim
that mingw is slow and you are *very* against it (you spoken about it
on several threads). I assume that your opinion is very valid - since
this is what you do on a daily basis.

What can you recommend for hobbiest on win32? clang? Other
"free=no-cost" compiler available on windows that can compile
Qt4/5+QtCreator+my_cool_qt_app ?