Problem getting Qt 4.3.3 to work with MS Visual Studio 2005 Express

[nicksnels]

Hi,

I'm trying to get Qt 4.3.3 to work with MS Visual Studio 2005 Express on a Windows Vista 64bit machine. I know I could use Mingw and Eclipse, but I need Visual Studio for another C++ library.

I have installed Visual Studio and Qt 4.3.3 (well unzipped qt-win-opensource-src-4.3.3), I added the bin directory of Qt to the PATH. I opened the Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt and went to the Qt directory. According to different wikis I read I don't need any patching and I should enter the command: configure -platform win32-msvc2005 . But that doesn't work, I get the error:

C:\Qt\4.3.3>configure -platform win32-msvc2005
Invalid option "win32-msvc2005" for -platform.
See the README file for a list of supported operating systems and compilers.
Usage: configure [-buildkey <key>]
....

Already tried different other combinations, but non of them worked. Thought the installation process would be the easiest one Hope someone can help me. Thanks.

Kind regards,

Nick

[wysota]

What happens if you don't pass the platform option at all (run "configure" with no options)? With a bit of luck your VS should be detected automatically.

[nicksnels]

Nope, doesn't work either. Just running configure without any options gives me:

C:\Qt\4.3.3>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.

It says to set QMAKESPEC, to what should I set it?

Kind regards,

Nick

[wysota]

It says to set QMAKESPEC, to what should I set it?

win32-msvc.net

BTW. Looks like you simply forgot the dot between "msvc" and "net". Try adding it, it should work just fine.

[bender86]

win32-msvc.net

But he says he use MSVC express 2005, so it should be win32-msvc2005.

I too use MVCS Express 2005* on Vista 64, and I got no problem installing Qt. Maybe the extraction went wrong, check if exists a 'mkspecs' directory in %QTDIR%, and if it contains a 'win32-msvc2005' directory. Try also to redownload qt source package.

* Actually I'm using 2008 version, but it worked also when I used 2005.

[wysota]

Hmm... right... I have to stop answering questions at 1am... I use 2005 myself, but with a 32 bit system.

[nicksnels]

Thanks for all the replies. Managed to get a bit further. I redownloaded the sources as I was missing quite a few things. Also installed a MS SDK according to the information provided by http://kjell.hedstrom.googlepages.co...o_express_2005 . I set QTDIR (c:\Qt\4.3.3),QMAKESPEC (win32-msvc2005) and added the Qt bin directory to the PATH and ran configure - prefix c:\Qt4.3.3 . It runs for a while and compiles things and after a while a get:

Creating qmake...

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.42
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Creating makefiles in src...
Generating Visual Studio project files...
Could not find mkspecs for your QMAKESPEC(win32-msvc2005) after trying:
c:\Qt4.3.3\mkspecs
Error processing project file: C:/Qt/4.3.3/projects.pro
Qmake failed, return code 3

Generating Makefiles...
Could not find mkspecs for your QMAKESPEC(win32-msvc2005) after trying:
c:\Qt4.3.3\mkspecs
Error processing project file: C:/Qt/4.3.3/projects.pro
Qmake failed, return code 3

And then it stops. Any ideas what may be causing this? I have a folder win32-msvc2005 in c:\Qt\4.3.3\mkspecs and it has two files qmake.conf and qplatformdefs.h . Thanks.

Kind regards,

Nick

[wysota]

Skip the prefix. If you want the prefix, issue "make install_mkspecs" after qmake complains. It should then install the specs to the specified directory and when you restart the configuration process it should work fine. Of course you can also copy the mkspecs directory to the one pointed to by the prefix yourself.

[ChristianEhrlicher]

The install prefix is really a problem - afaik it's not officially supported on windows. I've had several problems because some libs were not installed into <install_prefix>/bin. The latest one was that qttest(d)4.dll is not copied into there. This will be fixed in 4.3.4 or 4.4.0

[wysota]

The problem (I also remember encountering it) is that on Windows mkspecs need to be in the prefixed directory for qmake to work even before Qt is compiled. Amazingly this is not an issue on Unix systems.

[nicksnels]

So, I have just run configure without any options, but I get the same output. Is there a way to clean the output/result of the first configure I ran? Or should I just delete everything in the Qt folder and start all over again? Thanks.

Kind regards,

Nick