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

[Constantin Makshin]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:45:37 +0300, Matthias Pospiech  
<matthias.pospiech at gmx.de> wrote:
> 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?
I don't know, I don't use the Qt installer. But since that "update" of GCC  
isn't officially supported by MinGW developers, 3.x is more likely to be  
included in Qt package.

>>> 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.
AFAIK, yes, they have the same core. Their interfaces are somewhat similar  
as well, but obviously you'll have to get used to it.

> But I think that they will only be usefull if they are integrated into  
> the IDE.
Of course integration would be nice, but integration of another debugger  
requires much more work than adding support for the new compiler. And I  
don't know if that debugger supports such integration at all.

-- 
Constantin "Dinosaur" Makshin