Visual Studio 2005 Express

Hello,

I'm trying to get Qt to work with MS Visual Studio 2005 Express on Windows XP.

I have installed Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition and olso installed the Platform SDK and Qt 4.2.0 (well unzipped qt-win-opensource-src-4.2.0) to D:\ (I've got a project that is made in QT 4.2.0, So I'll assume I need this version)

How do I make a clean compile without error's, setting the evonioment variables stuff and to link it in VS2005? The official QT Docs/WIKI cannot help me since thats very deorganized.

And how do I proceed?

The open source version of Qt supports MSVC starting from version 4.3.2 so you might want to start with grabbing more recent version of Qt (recommended). Otherwise you'll have to apply a community patch to make it possible to compile Qt with MSVC at all. Anyway, then the next step is to compile Qt with MSVC (by running configure.exe & nmake). Take your time to analyze configure output before you proceed to compilation. Also, see "configure -help" for detailed info about possible options.

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Originally Posted by jpn

The open source version of Qt supports MSVC starting from version 4.3.2 so you might want to start with grabbing more recent version of Qt (recommended). Otherwise you'll have to apply a community patch to make it possible to compile Qt with MSVC at all. Anyway, then the next step is to compile Qt with MSVC (by running configure.exe & nmake). Take your time to analyze configure output before you proceed to compilation. Also, see "configure -help" for detailed info about possible options.

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I do not understand any of your text that you've posted. On the website of Trolltech, It qoutes "Visual Studio support and integration is provided with the commercial Editions of Qt.", Im not planning to pay something for open source-development.

I've followed your solution on my first post and the follow appears in the cmd;

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D:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3>configure -platform win32-msvc2005
 
This is the Qt/Windows Open Source Edition.
 
You are licensed to use this software under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.
 
Type '?' to view the GNU General Public License.
Type 'y' to accept this license offer.
Type 'n' to decline this license offer.
 
Do you accept the terms of the license?
Y
 
Environment:
    INCLUDE=
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\atl\include
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\mfc\include
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\include
    LIB=
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\mfc\lib
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\lib
    PATH=
      C:\WINDOWS\system32
      C:\WINDOWS
      C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
      C:\Qt\4.3.3\bin
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin
You are licensed to use this software under the terms of the GNU GPL.
See D:/qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3/LICENSE.GPL
 
Configuration:
    minimal-config
    small-config
    medium-config
    large-config
    full-config
    build_all
    debug
Qt Configuration:
    release
    debug
    zlib
    png
    accessibility
    qt3support
    opengl
    ipv6
    minimal-config
    small-config
    medium-config
    large-config
    full-config
 
QMAKESPEC...................win32-msvc2005 (commandline)
Architecture................windows
Maketool....................nmake
Debug symbols...............yes
Accessibility support.......yes
STL support.................yes
Exception support...........yes
RTTI support................yes
MMX support.................yes
3DNOW support...............no
SSE support.................yes
SSE2 support................yes
OpenGL support..............yes
Direct3D support............no
OpenSSL support.............no
QDBus support...............no
Qt3 compatibility...........yes
 
Third Party Libraries:
    ZLIB support............qt
    GIF support.............plugin
    TIFF support............plugin
    JPEG support............plugin
    PNG support.............qt
    MNG support.............plugin
 
Styles:
    Windows.................yes
    Windows XP..............no
    Windows Vista...........no
    Plastique...............yes
    Cleanlooks..............yes
    Motif...................yes
    CDE.....................yes
 
Sql Drivers:
    ODBC....................no
    MySQL...................no
    OCI.....................no
    PostgreSQL..............no
    TDS.....................no
    DB2.....................no
    SQLite..................plugin (qt)
    SQLite2.................no
    InterBase...............no
 
Sources are in..............D:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3
Build is done in............D:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3
Install prefix..............D:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3
Headers installed to........D:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3\include
Libraries installed to......D:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3\lib
Plugins installed to........D:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3\plugins
Binaries installed to.......D:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3\bin
Docs installed to...........D:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3\doc
Data installed to...........D:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3
Translations installed to...D:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3\translations
Examples installed to.......D:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3\examples
Demos installed to..........D:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3\demos
 
Creating qmake...
execute: File or path is not found (nmake)
execute: File or path is not found (nmake)
Cleaning qmake failed, return code -1
 
D:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3>

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Ok, let's forget about confusing community patches. In short,

• before Qt 4.3.2 it was impossible to compile the Qt Open Source Edition with MSVC
• starting from Qt 4.3.2 the support for MSVC was added to the Qt Open Source Edition

More details: Qt/Windows Open Source Edition to support VS Express

Still, to use Qt Open Source Edition 4.3.2 or later with MSVC you'll need to compile it by hand. Qt Open Source Edition binary installers are only available for MinGW.

Hopefully this clears the situation a bit. :)

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Originally Posted by Muzz

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execute: File or path is not found (nmake)

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You don't have nmake in PATH. Try using "Visual Studio Command Prompt".

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Originally Posted by jpn

You don't have nmake in PATH. Try using "Visual Studio Command Prompt".

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Yes I see, I've olso removed VC98 path's because VC6 is uninstalled before VC2005 was installed. Lets give it a try, I'll keep you guys updated. Thanks.

Okay. A little update from me; I've done the two options, configurate and nmake (Nmake took about 2 hours). They both didn't result errors so I assume that its cool now.

My installation directory is C:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3

How to continue right now?

You might want to add "C:\qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3\bin" to PATH so that you can run qmake conveniently. The next step is to create a cross-platform qmake project file (.pro) from which qmake is able to generate a Visual Studio project file (.vcproj) for you. (Furthermore, qmake is able to generate makefiles for all supported platforms/compilers.)

Go grab Hello World and save it to an empty directory, let's say C:\HelloWorld:

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C:\HelloWorld> qmake -project
C:\HelloWorld> qmake -tp vc

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First command creates an initial cross-platform .pro file from detected source files in that directory. Second command creates a Visual Studio project file based on the .pro file. Open the .vcproj in Visual Studio and build. Voilá! :)

jpn, look;

http://www.qtcentre.org/forum/attach...1&d=1202248733

Thank you for your help and patience! ;)

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Originally Posted by Muzz

jpn, look;

http://www.qtcentre.org/forum/attach...1&d=1202248733

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I'm afraid something went wrong with that attachment. What did you want to show?

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Thank you for your help and patience! ;)

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You're welcome. :)

Just another question, is it possible to run 4.2.0 and not 4.3.3 because the source that I have is made in 4.2.0 and when compiling I get alot of QT and VC++ error's.

Well, Qt 4.3.3 is backwards compatible with Qt 4.2.0 so I doubt it will solve compilation problems, but yes, you can have multiple versions of Qt installed. Just use qmake from the appropriate Qt installation to generate the .vcproj file. You can either adjust PATH environment variable or execute qmake directly from certain directory.

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Originally Posted by jpn

starting from Qt 4.3.2 the support for MSVC was added to the Qt Open Source Edition

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So that concluses me that 4.2.0 does not support MSVC, because I get platform errors while trying to configure?

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Originally Posted by Muzz

So that concluses me that 4.2.0 does not support MSVC, because I get platform errors while trying to configure?

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There's a community patch which makes it possible. See our wiki: [WIKI]Qt4 with Visual Studio[/WIKI] for more details.

I get alot of errors while making the vcproj files, How can I solve this?

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D:\project\src>qmake
 
D:\project\src>qmake -tp vc
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\zlib\zlib.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\libcrypt\crypt.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\libidn\idn.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\minizip\minizip.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\libmess\mess.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\mess\mess.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\disco\disco.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\register\register.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\privacy\privacy.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\search\search.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\xhtml\xhtml.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\chatstate\chatstate.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\autostatus\autostatus.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\vcard\vcard.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\history\history.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\bytestream\bytestream.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\filetransfer\filetransfer.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\rosterexchange\rosterexchange.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\muc\muc.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\zlib\zlib.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\libcrypt\crypt.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\libidn\idn.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\minizip\minizip.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\libmess\mess.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\mess\mess.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\disco\disco.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\register\register.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\privacy\privacy.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\search\search.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\xhtml\xhtml.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\chatstate\chatstate.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\autostatus\autostatus.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\vcard\vcard.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\history\history.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\bytestream\bytestream.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\filetransfer\filetransfer.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\rosterexchange\rosterexchange.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\muc\muc.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\zlib\zlib.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\libcrypt\crypt.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\libidn\idn.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\minizip\minizip.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\libmess\mess.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\mess\mess.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\disco\disco.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\register\register.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\privacy\privacy.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\search\search.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\xhtml\xhtml.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\chatstate\chatstate.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\autostatus\autostatus.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\vcard\vcard.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\history\history.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\bytestream\bytestream.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\filetransfer\filetransfer.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\rosterexchange\rosterexchange.vcproj'
WARNING: Ignored (not found) 'D:\project\src\plugins\muc\muc.vcproj'

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Here's how I get Qt snapshots fully working, configured and built with MSVC2005:

- Install MVSC2005 (or the other more recent version)
- Install the most recent Platform SDK (see MSDN)
- Afaik you'll need the Internet SDK as well, not sure, but better safe than sorry
- Then, download and extract a recent snapshot or the preview release to D:\Qt\4.x.x
- Open up a console with the MSVC settings loaded and go to your Qt directory
- Type "configure -platform win32-msvc2005" without the quotation marks
- That will build you the project files you'll need
- After that, it's as simple as running "qmake" and drinking a lot of coffee :)

Then, add D:\Qt\4.x.x\bin and D:\Qt\4.x.x\lib to your path environment variable, and you'll be able to use this version of Qt from everywhere on your system.

Hope that helps!

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Originally Posted by Stukfruit

- After that, it's as simple as running "qmake" and drinking a lot of coffee :)

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I suppose you mean "nmake". ;)

Afaik it doesn't really matter, but yeah, use whatever you like to use and then start drinking the coffee :)

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Originally Posted by Stukfruit

Afaik it doesn't really matter, but yeah, use whatever you like to use and then start drinking the coffee :)

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In fact, there's a significant difference. qmake is a tool which generates makefiles (or project files) but doesn't build anything whereas nmake is the actual tool which builds projects based on provided makefiles. Very nice summary, though. :)

I know, I know :)

I wasn't able to edit my previous post anymore, but I've got some updates. Just had a new system, so had to do everything right out of the box again. I was close, but some things could have been described better, so here goes:

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Here's how I get Qt snapshots fully working, configured and built with MSVC2005. The same list of routines is valid for MSVC2008 (aka Visual C++ 9.0) as well, it can open the project files from 2005 without any conversions (at least, I haven't seen it doing any).

- Install MSVC2005 or MSVC2008
- Install the most recent Platform SDK (@ MSDN: "Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2")
- From the Platform SDK, you'll need to install at least the base + internet options
- Then, download and extract a recent snapshot or the preview release to D:\Qt\4.x.x
- Open up a console with the MSVC settings loaded (see MSVC Tools-menu) and go to your Qt directory
- Type "configure -platform win32-msvc2005" without the quotation marks
- That will build you the project files you'll need
- After that, it's as simple as running "nmake" and drinking a lot of coffee :)

Then, add D:\Qt\4.x.x\bin and D:\Qt\4.x.x\lib to your path environment variable, and you'll be able to use this version of Qt from everywhere on your system. The latter could be added to the library section in the options from MSVC as well.

When you run into a build error which tells you that QNetworkProxy is undefined, that's caused because one of the headers in Qt tells the compiler to forward declare QNetworkProxy only. Including QNetworkProxy.h in the source file giving the error, should solve it.

Here comes the conclusion:

Visual Studio Express with Qt code completion

:p:p:p

I would just add that you can use Visual C++ 2008 express edition, and use the command prompt initiall. 'qmake -project' 'qmake -tp vc' then open project with vc express 2008...you do not have to worry about any .bat files, etc. then. And use Qt 4.3.3, no reason to use 4.3.2

Also, if you use web install, it will download and install the needed sdk for you. Personally I think this setup with building Qt statically, and building static apps is better than the mingw setup.

hi ksqt,

will u please tell me the steps from the beginning how to write a sample Qt application on windows mobile 5.0 .

I am trying to write one sample application i am getting the following error fopr mobile but it is working fine for desktop.

"use of c runtime library internal header file"

thanx in advance

Thanks & regards
pallavi