I could have had my program written in command line by now LOL, uninstalled 5.0, and got 4.8.4. Now it says my MinGW w32api.h is the incorrect version, I have 3.17 instead of the 3.13 needed.... great, so now I'm hit-and-miss downloading older releases of minGW until I find one with 3.13 in it.....
Googling lead me to this file, http://code.google.com/p/piece-of-c/...1.zip&can=2&q=
which is now allowing me to install 4.8.4 with no compatability errors.

If I got VS 2010 should I have no issues with 5.0? Or Zlat are you saying I should build Qt using VS 2012 and it *should* work then?

And all I wanted to do was create a simple program for my wife to use for her fish with attitude app, since the matching algorithms are so simple.