Hy, I'm a QT beginner, I tried to install and run it today on my Windows machine, but despite my best efforts and to my disappointment only caused lots of wasted hours. I tried everything possible, but this thing is impossible to start.

Okay, so after a day of work, I figured out how to set up most of it. I've gotten to the part where everything needed is in the path, I generated the project, the source files and the Makefile (with qmake). The only thing that doesn't work is the last step. I tried with nmake, i got this error:

Qt Code: 
  1. e:/Qt/qt/bin\moc.exe -DUNICODE -DWIN32 -DQT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT -DQT_DLL -
  2. DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -I"..\..\Qt\qt\include\QtCore" -I"
  3. ..\..\Qt\qt\include\QtGui" -I"..\..\Qt\qt\include" -I"." -I"..\..\Qt\qt\include\
  4. ActiveQt" -I"debug" -I"." -I"..\..\qt\qt\mkspecs\win32-msvc2005" -D_MSC_VER=1400
  5.  -DWIN32 myqtapp.h -o debug\moc_myqtapp.cpp
  6.         cl -c -nologo -Zm200 -Zc:wchar_t- -Zi -MDd -GR -EHsc -W3 -w34100 -w34189
  7.  -DUNICODE -DWIN32 -DQT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT -DQT_DLL -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -D
  8. QT_THREAD_SUPPORT -I"..\..\Qt\qt\include\QtCore" -I"..\..\Qt\qt\include\QtGui" -
  9. I"..\..\Qt\qt\include" -I"." -I"..\..\Qt\qt\include\ActiveQt" -I"debug" -I"." -I
  10. "..\..\qt\qt\mkspecs\win32-msvc2005" -Fodebug\ @C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Te
  11. mp\nm17F.tmp
  12. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\c
  13. l.EXE"' : return code '0xc0000135'
  14. Stop.
  15. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\n
  16. make.exe"' : return code '0x2'
  17. Stop.
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Then I installed mingw, this one gave the following error:

Qt Code: 
  1. E:\qttest\myqtapp>mingw32-make
  2. mingw32-make -f Makefile.Debug
  3. mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory `E:/qttest/myqtapp'
  4. Makefile.Debug:61: *** missing separator.  Stop.
  5. mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `E:/qttest/myqtapp'
  6. mingw32-make: *** [debug] Error 2
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The source files are taken from this tutorial, unmodified. The env. variables are set like the instructions said. Searched google, tried setting the path with vcvarsall.bat, reinstalled 2 times, but I can't figure it out, and I can't spend one more day on this, it's hard for me to understand why it needs to be so complicated.

Thx for your help.