[Qt-interest] QT windows visual studio 2008 version

[David Ching]

"Thiago Macieira" <thiago at kde.org> wrote in message 
news:201006291956.23130.thiago at kde.org...
> But Oliver's warning that you must match the VS version and service pack 
> that
> we used to build is still true. You'll get very funny and hard-to-track 
> errors
> if you don't match.

I believe (but am no longer sure) that the binaries Qt delivers target VS 
2008 RTM.  It is possible (indeed it is the default) in VS 2008 to target 
app builds to RTM, no matter if you have SP1 or another service pack/update 
installed into your VS 2008.  So essentially you can be using any version of 
VS 2008 and have it work with the pre-built Qt, if you target RTM in your 
app builds.  This is explained more thoroughly here: 
http://www.nuonsoft.com/blog/2008/10/29/binding-to-the-most-recent-visual-studio-libraries/

The big elephant in the room, of course, is why should anyone be targeting 
RTM when there are service packs available.  But to play with the latest and 
greatest, you need to rebuild Qt from the source code.

-- David