Getting started on Windows

**spraff** · 18th January 2009, 16:53

Hello there.

I've been having a great time developing in Qt on linux but now I need to develop for Windows as well. Here's what I did:

Went to http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/...ev/windows-cpp and downloaded ftp://ftp.trolltech.no/qt/source/qt-...-src-4.4.3.zip

Installed XP SP2 and Visual Studio 2008.

As per the INSTALL file I added c:\qt4\bin to PATH, now I open a console and
here's what happens...

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C:\QT4>echo %PATH%
C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;c:\PROGRA~1\MI6841~1\90\
Tools\binn\;c:\qt4\bin
 
C:\QT4>dir bin
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 6053-6EC9
 
 Directory of C:\QT4\bin
 
18/01/2009  15:33    <DIR>          .
18/01/2009  15:33    <DIR>          ..
18/01/2009  15:33             4,349 findtr
18/01/2009  15:33            36,112 syncqt
               2 File(s)         40,461 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  10,764,660,736 bytes free
 
C:\QT4>configure
Unable to detect the platform from environment. Use -platform command lineargument or set the QMAKESPEC environment variable and run configure again See the README file for a list of supported operating systems and compilers.

C:\QT4>echo %PATH%
C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;c:\PROGRA~1\MI6841~1\90\
Tools\binn\;c:\qt4\bin

C:\QT4>dir bin
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 6053-6EC9

 Directory of C:\QT4\bin

18/01/2009  15:33    <DIR>          .
18/01/2009  15:33    <DIR>          ..
18/01/2009  15:33             4,349 findtr
18/01/2009  15:33            36,112 syncqt
               2 File(s)         40,461 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  10,764,660,736 bytes free

C:\QT4>configure
Unable to detect the platform from environment. Use -platform command lineargument or set the QMAKESPEC environment variable and run configure again See the README file for a list of supported operating systems and compilers.

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As far as I can tell, this should have worked. Any idea why not?

Thanks

**spraff** · 18th January 2009, 16:57

P.S. Visual Studio is installed and running correctly, I've been using it for non-Qt programs.

**spraff** · 18th January 2009, 17:01

Oh, and PPS :-) if I type "configure -platform win32-msvc" it starts to churn but aborts when it can't find nmake (which is installed with Visual Studio 9)