[Qt-interest] Qt SDK for Windows: 64bits and MSVC 2010?

[David Ching]

The Qt SDK is great for newcomers to get up and running quickly, but if you
plan to do anything serious with Qt, I have found the only real solution is
to bite the bullet and build Qt yourself, for YOUR compiler with the options
YOU need.  For example, the plugin system was broken on Windows for a long
time (and might still be) in that the plugins shipped with the SDK had a
manifest that forced the Qt libs to be in the plugin folder (and not in the
parent .exe folder), which of course is not deployable.  Working around that
requires building Qt manually so that the manifest can be overridden.

Building Qt does not have to take a lot of time, if you are smart with what
parts you build and what configurations.

-- David

"Yves Bailly" <yves.bailly at sescoi.fr> wrote in message
news:<4E5F7C43.9030909 at sescoi.fr>...
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
> Just found the release of Qt SDK 1.1.3 and its nice online installer:
great :-)
> 
> However, is there any plan to provide:
> - 64bits binaries for Windows? too bad 64bits is still a second-class
citizen
>    on Windows platforms...
> - binaries from Visual C++ 2010? this compiler is almost 2 years old
now...
> 
> Thanks for any hint about the future.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
>       /- Yves Bailly - Software developper  -\
>       \- Sescoi R&D  - http://www.sescoi.fr -/
> "The possible is done. The impossible is being done. For miracles,
> thanks to allow a little delay."