Qt and Eclipse problem

[PUK_999]

These are some notes I made about setting up my development environment:
<snip>
· Download the LGPL version of the Qt SDK from http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads
· Run the file downloaded in the previous step to install the Qt SDK, selecting the default options.
<snip>

Should I select to install MinGW when installing Qt? You instruction implies I should but a previous step has installed it.

Thanks,

PUK

[PUK_999]

Should I select to install MinGW when installing Qt? You instruction implies I should but a previous step has installed it.

Thanks,

PUK

I continued without installing MinGW and have got it to work. I needed to add C:\Qt\2009.03\Qt\bin to the system path so that the test program I wrote could find QtCored4.dll, etc.

Thanks again for your help. I hope I get on well with Qt under Eclipse. Have you encountered any problems or has it been fine?

I had a situation earlier (as in when I installed Eclipse from some other instructions, not yours) when I double cliked on a .ui file to enter the Qt Designer Editor and then brought up the "Qt Widget Box" window but it was greyed out/disabled. It's coming up enabled now but didn't inspire me with a great deal of confidence!

Cheers,

PUK

[StephenR]

Thanks again for your help. I hope I get on well with Qt under Eclipse. Have you encountered any problems or has it been fine?

Pleased to hear you have got it working. I have not encountered too many problems, although developing under Eclipse can be frustrating at times but I think that is because I am used to developing .NET applications in Visual Studio which is a lot easier! We have had a few issues with the debugger not working consistently which is affecting our productivity a little, but hopefully we can sort that out.

[PUK_999]

Thankfully for me, the problem that forced me away from Qt Creator towards Eclipse has now been resolved so I'm not using Qt w/ Eclipse anymore.

Out of curiosity, why do you use Eclipse IDE rather than Creator?

Thanks,

PUK.

[StephenR]

Out of curiosity, why do you use Eclipse IDE rather than Creator?

The project I am working on involves creating a number of modules. We originally thought we would just be using Qt for the graphical modules, so I thought it would be a good idea to use the same IDE for Qt and non-Qt development i.e. Eclipse. However, we have ended up using Qt for all our modules because its non-GUI functionality is also quite useful, so perhaps we should have used Qt Creator after all. I had assumed Eclipse would be a more robust and mature IDE, but now I'm not too sure!