Build Qt 4.7 on Windows

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Old Windoze instructions (deprecated)

To set up for Windows development with Visual Studio (PAIN in the ASS, only do this once central repo and another platform are up and working)..

  • install Visual Studio 2010
  • install the Qt Visual Studio Add-in from here
  • set up git option 1: use eclipse + egit (easy but no scripting, ugg)
    • install eclipse CDT and egit
    • start eclipse and select File->Import, select Projects from Git, hit Clone, set up remote repo and hit next, CHANGE crappy default location to C:\Michael's Data\development\thedigitalage\hangthedj.
    • repeat for other needed projects (Reusable, etc)
  • set up git option 2: the nightmare that is msysgit (pain to set up, but scriptable and worth it)
    • install the "official" Git for Windows
      • tie it to plink, not openssl, so you can use putty's pageant.exe to serve up your ssh key
      • make it accessible from the Windows command prompt
    • set up the notepad++ editor to work with git
      • set up a batch file to run notepad++; see hangthedj/windows_scripts/npp.bat; it needs to be in a path without spaces
      • configure git to use npp: git config --global core.editor C:/npp.bat (be careful, windows 7 may give you fits about putting stuff in root c:\)
    • configure git with your u/p: git config --global user.name "Your Name" && git config --global user.email you@example.com
    • set up a script that calls git, similar to how you would do it in linux; see hangthedj/windows_scripts/hcm.bat and huc.bat
  • now we have to build Qt libraries since for some reason they haven't released a 2010 build yet (wtf!)
  • Get a copy of the source for your cross-platform Qt app, ideally already tested and working on another platform, on your Windows box. Use git, whee!
  • Install Visual Studio 2010.
  • Install this patch to fix support for 64-bit apps.
  • Install the DirectX SDK
  • Install OpenSSL
    • prebuilt Windows binaries are here; Note that the "light" installer doesn't have the include files you'll need - get the full version. You can ignore the installer's VS2008 redistributable warnings.
    • copy libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll from the \bin folder to your project's Debug and Release directories - you will need to ship these dll's with your product.
  • Download and unzip the Qt opensource code to [c:\\Qt\4.7.2] (or whatever version you get).
  • Open a "Visual Studio command prompt" and compile Qt as follows. Note that for phonon, you MUST compile Qt as shared not static; see hangthedj\windows_scripts\mdm_build.bat.
nmake confclean
nmake clean
echo yes >yes.txt
configure -debug-and-release -opensource -shared -nomake demos -nomake examples -no-qt3support -qt-sql-sqlite -phonon -phonon-backend -no-webkit -no-script -openssl -I C:\OpenSSL-Win32\include -L C:\OpenSSL-Win32\lib -platform win32-msvc2010 <yes.txt
nmake
  • Wait a while for that to finish... Definitely use the above settings to skip the demos and examples if you want to save time.
  • Because we built shared, you should now have Qt dll's (including phonon) in [c:\\Qt\4.7.2\bin]. Copy the debug versions of dll's (*d4.dll) into the directory with your debug exe, and repeat with (*4.dll) for release. Again, you will need to ship these dll's with your product. See hangthedj/windows_scripts/
  • Install the Qt Visual Studio Add-In (this version works with Visual Studio 2010)
  • Open Visual Studio. You should see a nice new Qt menu item sandwiched between View and Project. Select [Qt->Qt Options], hit Add, and browse to the source directory. With any luck Qt will enable the OK button for ya...
  • Select [Qt->Open Qt Project (.pro)], browse to your project, and load it up. Visual Studio will spend a few minutes getting comfortable with all the Qt headers, and then you should have a *.sln file you can work with.
  • Open the project settings and add the Reusable code path to your include paths.
  • You should be able to compile and debug just like you do with all your skanky (j/k) Windoze code. Yay!

Regenerating Visual Studio solution on project changes:

  • This must be done when the project changes (files added etc)
  • Run Visual Studio, but CLOSE THE CURRENT SOLUTION FIRST
  • select [Qt->Open Qt Project File...]
  • open the same project from the same location
    • it will ask you if you want to regenerate, say yes
    • it will ask a couple more times if you want to overwrite
      • [OK] to saving current changes
      • [Discard] changes and overwrite with new ones from file
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