[Qt-interest] usage of QtCreator with other compiler than mingw

[Matthias Pospiech]

Constantin Makshin schrieb:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:07:40 +0300, Matthias Pospiech  
> <matthias.pospiech at gmx.de> wrote:
>   
>> I currently use Qt with Visual Studio 2005. I can not use mingw because
>> the phonon libary does not compile then and because I want to use the
>> Eigen libary which requires gcc 4.3 but mingw currently is gcc 3.x based.
>>     
> You can find recent versions (4.3.2 is available ATM) of GCC for MinGW at
> http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc
>
>   
I have  heard of that, but what kind of version does Qt ship?
>> Now I was thinking about using QtCreator for myself and about
>> adverstising it to student to whom I give a class in C++ a few weeks.
>> But the necessary requirement would be to be able to use the nmake
>> compiler and its debugger with QtCreator.
>> Is this possible now, or planed for any future version?
>>     
> NMake support shouldn't be a problem for QtCreator, so, I think, it may be  
> supported in the future. But AFAIK you can't "embed" Visual Studio  
> debugger into other applications. But there's a stand alone debugger  
> available for free at
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx
>   
Is this debugger the same or similar to the one in VS? I have never 
worked with these tools.
But I think that they will only be usefull if they are integrated into 
the IDE.

Matthias