Cygwin not wanted (WinXP) how do I change compiler of chioce?

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Hi all,

This is only my second post.
I have been trying to get Qt creator to work for me for a month. It have been one of my bigger frustrations. I am trying to learn C++ using a decent GUI editor and Qt seem to be perfect for it but for the complexity of installation. I am an amateur with a background in 'c' and have used RealBasic and VB6 in years past (shame shame).

I have Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 installed and seem to recall that I should be able to use the compiler for it. Now, the qustion I have is: how do I change Qt configuration to use MSVS2008 over Cygwin? Is there an easy way to let Qt to read what I want in PATH? I suspect otherwise.

This is what I have now when I compile a simple empty window:

Configuration unchanged, skipping QMake step.
Starting: c:\MinGW\bin\mingw32-make.exe
c:/MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe -f Makefile.Debug
mingw32-make.exe[1]: Entering directory `C:/Documents and Settings/Derek/Desktop/Qt/myQtTest01'
c:/Qt/4.5.2/bin/uic.exe mainwindow.ui -o ui_mainwindow.h
g++ -c -g -frtti -fexceptions -mthreads -Wall -DUNICODE -DQT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT -DQT_DLL -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -DQT_NEEDS_QMAIN -I'c:/Qt/4.5.2/include/QtCore' -I'c:/Qt/4.5.2/include/QtGui' -I'c:/Qt/4.5.2/include' -I'c:/Qt/4.5.2/include/ActiveQt' -I'debug' -I'.' -I'c:/Qt/4.5.2/mkspecs/win32-g++' -o debug/mainwindow.o mainwindow.cpp
g++ -enable-stdcall-fixup -Wl,-enable-auto-import -Wl,-enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc -mthreads -Wl -Wl,-subsystem,windows -o debug/myQtTest01.exe debug/main.o debug/mainwindow.o debug/moc_mainwindow.o -L'c:/Qt/4.5.2/lib' -lmingw32 -lqtmaind -lQtGuid4 -lQtCored4
mingw32-make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `C:/Documents and Settings/Derek/Desktop/Qt/myQtTest01'
debug/moc_mainwindow.o(.rdata$_ZTV10MainWindow[vtable for MainWindow]+0xb0): In function `ZSt17__verify_groupingPKcjRKSs':
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/include/c++/bits/locale_facets.tcc:2509: undefined reference to `QWidget::x11Event(_XEvent*)' <== this is what I do not know how to change
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
mingw32-make.exe[1]: *** [debug/myQtTest01.exe] Error 1
c:\MinGW\bin\mingw32-make.exe : *** [debug] Error 2
Exited with code 2.
Error while building project myQtTest01
When executing build step 'Make'
Guru helped me find that my compilation problems were due to my Qt installation using Cygwin as compiler.

PLEASE! ANYONE? I do not want Cygwin as compiler but this is what was defaulted when I ran install. What did I miss.

Most gratelful to anyone with insite.
regards
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[ChrisW67]

You could try:

qmake -spec win32-msvc

qmake -spec win32-msvc

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To get a Makefile set for MS VC++. You will have to make sure the environment is suitable to build with MS VC++.

Or, you could build your own Qt:
Download and unpack the Qt Windows source
Open a Visual C++ command prompt
Change to source directory
Follow the build instructions (probably just configure, nmake)
Tell QtCreator to use the new Qt build.
For consistency, you could build QtCreator with VC++.

The resulting version of Qt should default to using Microsoft's C++.

Now, back to maintaining my inherited VB6 application

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ChrisW67

Worked perfectly. I went back to finally read what Qt was and this makes perfect sense.

The best of luck on the VB6 project. I hope never to see one again . Enjoy the Option Base and dll hell.

Off to c what I can do with the creator.

cheers and thanks again.
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