[Qt-creator] Is MSVC on Windows supported?

Peter Kümmel syntheticpp at gmx.net
Thu Sep 6 11:58:38 CEST 2012


On 06.09.2012 07:59, joerg.bornemann at nokia.com wrote:
> Diego,
> my recommendation for a free (as in beer) C++ toolchain on Windows is:
>
> - the Windows SDK, if you don't need an IDE or use Qt Creator. It comes with everything you need to do C++ development: MSVC, Windows headers/libs, documentation.

Are there differences to the compiler shipped with MSVC Express?

> - MSVC Express, if you need an IDE. This is the Windows SDK + a reduced but very usable version of Visual Studio.

"if you need an IDE"  shouldn't you recommend QtCreator on this list ;)

> - MinGW if you need C++ features that MSVC doesn't support or you're porting unixoid software to Windows.
>
> Coda,
> thanks for the interesting links! I know that gcc contains a great C++ compiler. Its the quality of the whole package I'm bitching at.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jörg
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