Qt installation for Visual Studio

For professional and express edition.

The steps for a successful integration of Qt in Visual Studio IDE are as follows:

Pre-requisites:

Make sure the platform SDK is installed if using Express Edition of Visual Studio.

Visual Studio Express and the platform SDK can be downloaded freely from Microsoft downloads.

STEP 1:

Download the Qt library form Nokia’s website and select “LGPL/Free Downloads”;

Although the SDK mentions that its based on MinGW and do not support VS compiler, it does not matter. Qt can be made compatible with VS.

STEP 2:

Set the environment variable: “C:\Qt\2009.01\bin” and “C:\Qt\2009.01\qt\bin”. The only thing we need to pay attention is the semicolon between two paths.

STEP3:

Open Visual Studio Command Prompt, which may be located in “Start > Program Files > Visual Studio > Visual Studio Tool > Visual Studio Command Prompt”;

Go to the folder which Qt installed. You may run command “cd c:\Qt\2009.01\qt”;

Type in “configure” and run. This command will configure Qt library for your computer. If you have multiple compiler installed, you may use “configure –platform win32-msvc” to emphasize which compiler you want to use!

STEP4:

Run “nmake” in the command prompt, which may cause lots of time!

This document is based on Kabilen’s instruction! You may contact the author by “kabilen@delinkx.com”.