Is Windows Development even possible with QT?

[NotSoQT]

No, not really. I'm just annoyed when people say "oh Qt sucks so much!" when the fault is obviously not Qt's.

I never said Qt sucks - I happen to like it, which is why it is frustrating that there is so little resources for using it for Windows/VS.

No. The fact that a square of x is larger than x doesn't automatically make x+1 the square of x. There is a difference between a required condition and a sufficient condition.

That was sarcasm

Even the simplest operation can be painful if done the wrong way.

But it doesn't have to be painful if done the right way.

Go ahead, use vi to develop an MFC app, I don't care. My point is to not use Visual Studio wizards for it.

Would a Eclipse or QtCreator wizard be better - just a little joke - relax.

I don't see the parallel, to be honest. I'm sure that if you wanted to do DirectX programming using only vi without any earlier experience with it....

What I meant was, when setting up Visual Studio for Directx, I simply had to download and install the sdk, and my environment was setup.

Play around using Qt Creator and only when you learn it's worth the effort, convince Visual Studio to work with your Qt installation.

This is exactly what I'm trying to do - I have been playing around with QtCreator, and have enjoyed it - but would prefer VS due to its debugging features.

Read your post again -- you didn't ask for help. You only wanted to shout out your frustrations. Which is of course ok to do but then you risk such harsh responses as mine.

I did read it again and I'm sorry, I didn't intent to sound that way. What I was really trying to ask is if there is a clear way in which to setup VS as a development environment for Qt or if that's a bad idea? How to generate .exe? My vs projects run, but no .exe are generated.

Try giving Qt another shot. If you can't get the AddIn to work then just ignore it, you don't need it. Use "qmake -tp vc" to generate a Visual Studio project from a Qt project file, open it with Visual Studio and start hacking ("around").

Thank you - I didn't know that you can do that with qmake, and thought the addin was a requirement.

My problem wasn't with Qt, but confusion/frustration on how to setup VS for Qt.

[wysota]

What I meant was, when setting up Visual Studio for Directx, I simply had to download and install the sdk, and my environment was setup.

If you download Qt for Qt Creator/MinGW or GCC, all you have to do is to download and install it and the environment is setup. Can you notice the trend? The maintainer spends more time testing (and supporting) configurations that are more likely to be used than those less likely to be used. Your configuration apparently is not one of the most popular ones.

My vs projects run, but no .exe are generated.

I don't think that's possible

Thank you - I didn't know that you can do that with qmake, and thought the addin was a requirement.

You can even do the whole compilation (qmake && nmake) from the command line and only use VS for writing code and/or running the debugger.

My problem wasn't with Qt, but confusion/frustration on how to setup VS for Qt.

Don't worry. Eventually you'll manage to do it. For me it worked out of the box the last time I tried it (Qt 4.6 + MSVS2008 AFAIR, I don't remember the AddIn version). Recently if I'm using MSVC then only from the command line, I'm doing all the development on Linux. That's why I think Qt is cross-platform.

[NotSoQT]

If you download Qt for Qt Creator/MinGW or GCC, all you have to do is to download and install it and the environment is setup. Can you notice the trend? The maintainer spends more time testing (and supporting) configurations that are more likely to be used than those less likely to be used. Your configuration apparently is not one of the most popular ones.

Yep, that's why I was going crazy :P

I don't think that's possible

It isn't, but it made me think I was missing some kind of config - turned out to be a odd directory structure I had, exe's are generated just fine

You can even do the whole compilation (qmake && nmake) from the command line and only use VS for writing code and/or running the debugger.

Nice.

Don't worry. Eventually you'll manage to do it. For me it worked out of the box the last time I tried it (Qt 4.6 + MSVS2008 AFAIR, I don't remember the AddIn version). Recently if I'm using MSVC then only from the command line, I'm doing all the development on Linux. That's why I think Qt is cross-platform.

I've managed to get everything 100% in VS2010 now, turned out to be an incorrect and duplicated path variable, and some misplaced files - my fault, as you pointed out earlier :P

Thanks for the help, and sorry about my earlier posts!