[Qt-creator] Qt Creator 3.4 binaries will be compiled with MSVC 2013 (dynamic opengl)

[Henry Skoglund]

About switching building QtC to MSVC2013, that's excellent news, thank you!

I'm testing it now, looks good. Just want to add, I'm testing it in a 
Windows XP Virtual Machine on VMWare Fusion. So it still works fine 
under Windows XP. Just have to patch the qtcreator.exe file:
http://www.tripleboot.org/Pictures/PatchingQtCreator3.3.81.png

P.S. I followed the same procedure as for making other .exe files built 
with MSVC2013 run in Windows XP, as i mention here; 
http://www.tripleboot.org/?p=423

Rgrds Henry


On 2015-03-16 11:25, Koehne Kai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We just switched the compiler we use to build the Qt Creator binaries on Windows from MSVC 2010 to MSVC 2013. To be more accurate, we now build the packages with Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 32 bit, and Qt 5.4.1 MSVC 2013 32 bit.
>
> This allows us to (again) use an official Qt build. The dynamic opengl switching in this Qt build also enables Qt Creator to run in environments where DirectX isn't working (Virtual Machines etc). However, this also means also that the build won't run anymore on Windows XP.
>
> Note that compiling Qt Creator with Visual Studio 2010 is still supported for 3.4 (but we plan to drop support in 3.5, see the "Using C++11 in Creator's source" thread).
>
> The change is already done in the latest snapshots:
>
> http://download.qt.io/snapshots/qtcreator/3.4.0-rc1/latest/
>
> Feel free to give it a try :)
>
> Regards
>
> Kai
>
>
> --------
> Kai Köhne, Senior Software Engineer | The Qt Company
>
> Digia Germany GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 13, D-12489 Berlin
> Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Tuula Haataja Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B
>
> Email: kai.koehne at theqtcompany.com | Mobile: + 49 151 55155601 | Phone: +49 30 63 92 3255 www.qt.io |Qt Blog: http://blog.qt.digia.com/ | Twitter: @QtbyDigia, @Qtproject | Facebook: www.facebook.com/qt
>
> _______________________________________________
> Qt-creator mailing list
> Qt-creator at qt-project.org
> http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
>