I have just spent 3 unproductive hours trying to get a working QT 4.8 system on Windows 7 with Visual Studio 2008. I downloaded the Qt libraries for Visual Studio 2008 and Qt Creator. Qt creator cannot find the compiler. I have no idea what it wants me to do. I have tried adding a compiler to the desktop kit but I have no idea what I need to add.
I gave up on that after seeing a comment on the internet ‘Why not just use MingW – it is built in ?’ I uninstalled the version for VS2008 and downloaded the version fo MingW. That won’t install – it is plainly NOT built-in.
I found a comment about installing a deprecated SDK in order to get MingW. Helpfully it gave the site. This wants to install QT Creator as well as MingW – is that going to screw up the version of Qt creator that I installed successfully ? I don’t want to risk it.
What the hell is going on ? Should it really be this difficult to get a working version of Qt. Al that is needed is some clear up-front instructions of what to do !
I have now given up as it really is not worth all this effort.
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