Open source dev on windows: MinGW vs MSVC

[wysota]

You forgot to mention that to use the Express edition of msvc the SDK (around 100MB) also needs to be downloaded from Microsoft.

[bender86]

Step 6. Use the following environment variables: QTDIR=[location of Qt source], QMAKESPEC=win32-msvc.net, and add the Qt bin directory to your path.

Why win32-msvc.net? There is win32-msvc2005 for msvc2005 (it works also with 2008, until official support).

You forgot to mention that to use the Express edition of msvc the SDK (around 100MB) also needs to be downloaded from Microsoft.

That is no longer needed with MSVC 2008 express, as it includes headers and libraries for native Windows programming.

[shawnj]

Is the VS2008 Express Edition and qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3 combination what Qt is calling Visual Studio "Integeration" or is this combination just to use the vs compiler?

Is the Commercial Edition of Qt the only way to achieve Visual Studio "Integration"? Does "Integration" also include debugger support?
Does the Commercial Edition also work with VS2008 Pro or VS2008 Express Edition (instead of vs2005)?

thanks,
shawnj

[marcel]

The Qt VS Integration is a Visual Studio extension available only with commercial editions of Qt. It provides mostly Qt project management support within VS and Designer integration.

Non-Express versions of Visual Studio do not support extensions, therefore you cannot use Qt Integration with VS Express.

Does "Integration" also include debugger support?

Debugging support comes with the VS compiler and is embedded in all versions of the IDE.
Of course, in order to debug Qt applications you must first compile the Qt debug libraries.