[Qt-interest] Building Qt 4.4.3: linker errors LNK2019 w/ MSVC2003 on Windows

[Robert Hairgrove]

I am trying to build the Qt libraries using the free MSVC 2003 toolkit. 
The Microsoft link.exe cannot find the following symbol, the member 
function QString::begin(), which is defined inline in <qstring.h>. Here 
is the error message I get when the build process gets around to linking 
the QCore4.dll:

==== NMAKE output =====
Generating Code...
     	link /LIBPATH:"f:\Qt\4.4.3\lib" /LIBPATH:"f:\Qt\4.4.3\lib" /NOLOGO 
/BASE
:0x67000000 /INCREMENTAL:NO /DLL /VERSION:4.43 
/OUT:..\..\lib\QtCore4.dll @F:\TE
MP\nmA4.tmp
    Creating library ..\..\lib\QtCore4.lib and object ..\..\lib\QtCore4.exp
QtCore_pch.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol 
"__declspec(dllimport
) public: unsigned short * __thiscall std::basic_string<unsigned 
short,struct st
d::char_traits<unsigned short>,class std::allocator<unsigned short> 
 >::begin(voi
d)" 
(__imp_?begin@?$basic_string at GU?$char_traits at G@std@@V?$allocator at G@2@@std@@Q
AEPAGXZ) referenced in function "public: class 
std::basic_string<unsigned short,
struct std::char_traits<unsigned short>,class std::allocator<unsigned 
short> > _
_thiscall QString::toStdWString(void)const " 
(?toStdWString at QString@@QBE?AV?$bas
ic_string at GU?$char_traits at G@std@@V?$allocator at G@2@@std@@XZ)
..\..\lib\QtCore4.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'link' : return code '0x460'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'F:\PSDK\Bin\nmake.exe' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
==== end NMAKE output ====

I have configured like this:

==== config ====
configure -platform win32-msvc2003 -release -no-webkit -qt-sql-odbc 
-qt-sql-sqlite
==== end config ====

I have built Qt before successfully, both on Windows and on Linux (last 
time was 4.3.0, also with this compiler). Also, if I use the /Zc:wchar_t 
option (=wchar_t is a native type instead of a typedef) I get the same 
error message except that basic_string<wchar_t ...etc....> instead of 
basic_string<unsigned short ...etc...> is returned in the above error 
message.

Both the missing function QString::begin() (returns a non-const 
QString::iterator) and the calling function QString::toStdWString() are 
inlined in the header qstring.h. Of course, both are defined. Is this 
some limitation of the MSVC 2003 Toolkit compiler (AKA MSVC 7.1 for 
.NET) regarding inline functions?

Thanks!