[Qt-creator] Is MSVC on Windows supported?

[Coda Highland]

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Diego Iastrubni <diegoiast at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ?

I assume the recommendation would be MSVC Express, which is
free-as-in-beer but is lacking some features.

/s/ Adam