Qt Open source + MSVC++ 2008

[TopFuel]

I took the source files from one of the included samples and tried this:
1) I ran "qmake -project tabdialog" to generate a .pro file. It worked.
2) According to the documentation, Qt should be able to generate a Visual Studio project from a .pro file, but they don't explain well how to do it. "qmake -t vcapp" just says "WARNING: Unable to generate output..............". How should I do it then?

[marcel]

qmake -tp vc -o hello.dsp hello.pro

[TopFuel]

Thanks for the help. Now I know how to to get a *.dsp file from a *.pro file. The bad thing is however that both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 is unable to open it. It says "The project file .............dsp has been corrupted and cannot be opened.". Am I still doing something wrong or?

[marcel]

qmake is able to generate vcproj file too.
Just call:

qmake -tp vc

qmake -tp vc

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but first make sure you already have the pro file generated.

[TopFuel]

I'm getting closer, but I'm still not there yet!

I used the QT command prompt for running your suggested commands. That is why it didn't work because the QMAKESPEC system variable that I manually added is not used in that command prompt. After using the ordinary command prompt, things started working and I got a *.vcproj file that Visual Studio could open.
When I compile my project in Visual Studio I get an error like ".........cannot open input file 'c:\Program\Qt\4.3.2\lib\qtmaind.lib'". There are no such file on my system. How do I get it?
I think it has something to do with "nmake", but I have not been able to run it with any success yet.
Thanks in advance for the help!

[marcel]

Compile your app in release mode. Qt open source does not come with the debug libraries compiled. You have to build them yourself. There's even a shortcut in the start menu for that.

Anyway, I suggest to drop VC 2008 and use Eclipse CDT + Qt Eclipse Integration + mingw. The only drawback is that gcc is a bit slower than mscc but that won't kill you.
On the bright side, you will work with a professional IDE and release yourself from MS crap.

[TopFuel]

Compiling the app in release mode in VS2008 results in an error "cannot open input file "c:\Program\Qt\4.3.2\lib\qtmain.lib". There are no such file in my system either.

When I run the "Qt 4.3.2 (Build Debug Libraries)" from the Windows start menu, it says that QMAKESPEC is win32-g++ and I don't get any chance to change it either, so no *.lib files are created by running that.

I downloaded and installed the qt-win-opensource-4.3.2-mingw.exe file. Was that a mistake?
Should I have downloaded the sources instead?

[marcel]

I downloaded and installed the qt-win-opensource-4.3.2-mingw.exe file. Was that a mistake?
Should I have downloaded the sources instead?

Yes it was. That version is for mingw only. you cannot use it with msvc.
If you really need to, then download the sources and build them. that will take some time but it will work.
When you configure the build make sure you select debug and release.

After the build and install are complete you will have to set the following env vars:
-QTDIR=your qt dir
-PATH=%PATH%;%QTDIR%\bin;
-QMAKESPEC=win32-msvc or whatever is called(maybe you'll even have to tweak it a bit, since there's no support for 2008 yet).

BTW: I am very happy to see your interest in Eclipse & open source tools.