[Qt-interest] MSVC 2010 ready for Qt yet?

[Constantin Makshin]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Harri Pasanen <grego at mpaja.com> wrote:
> Thursday, April 28, 2011 11:23 pm
> slayer81 at gmx.de writes:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Awhile ago there was a discussion about MSVC 2010 not working with Qt due
>> to a bug in MSVC. If I remember correctly, there was no way using the Qt
>> binaries for Windows with MSVC 2010. You had to compile Qt yourself.
>>
>> Has this since changed?
>>
>> Are there any developers who can tell some pros/cons using the latest MSVC
>> with Qt?
>>
>
> If you are using Visual C++ Express, the 2010 edition does not appear to
> include *.msm merge modules for C++ runtime redistributable.  That makes it
> impossible to build a .msi installer incorporating automatic dependency to C++
> runtime.  At least I don't know how to get around this, please enlighten me if
> you know how.
You can download the MSVS 2010 SP1 ISO image and extract merge modules manually.

> Also, if you have Visual C++ Express 2008 installed, the QtSDK installer
> recognizes this and adds targets for it automatically in Qt Creator.
>
> Additionally. if you are also using Python, via for example the excellent but
> rarely mentioned PythonQt, http://pythonqt.sourceforge.net/ , it is simpler to
> stick with VC 2008 as Python is also compiled with 2008, so you don't need to
> recompile that as well.
There're shouldn't be any [serious] problems with libraries compiled
with 2008 used by applications compiled with 2010. It's unlikely that
you'll need to recompile anything just to match compiler versions.

> Just my 2 precious cents...
>
> Harri
> http://mpaja.com/