msvc++ 2008 express and msvc++ 2005 express

[vonCZ]

You do not have to uninstall 2008 express. You should be able to install 2005 express side-by-side.

How is it not working? I have built Qt apps with 2008 express and 2008 pro Visual Studio, as well as 2005 versions. I have not encountered your problem.

Once you've set everything up correctly you can build Qt apps just like msvc apps. You can do this with the open source Qt, but you need to understand how to set up the Visual Studio environment. Takes a bit of time when you initially set up a project. After that smooth sailing!

If you want a quick and simple IDE for Qt, try QDevelop or the tech preview of Qt Creator. I think Qt Creator looks promising, just Google for them.

Thanks hax, yeah, I went ahead and installed 2005 Express (in addition to 2008). Problem still remained, however, and I should have been a bit more clear about it:

(in a nutshell: end-users must have admin privileges to run a deployed Qt application built with 2008 express)

that's been my problem: to run a deployed app, users must first run vcredist*.exe. This isn't an option for many of my end-users, as it requires administrator privileges.

After beating myself up over this for a week and a half, I finally just did a clean install of winXP--deleting everything (incl. 2005 and 2008 express)--and am starting over with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (the non-express version). I think this will fix my problem.

[sadjoker]

Dude, just put the MS runtime dlls in the programs dir and distribute your software with them. No real need to install any packages. I shipped software to fresh installed windows machines without .Net platforms installed and it worked out of box. OR configure everything to be static but expect really big executable which is just a waste of bandwith when you do regular updates to the exe.

[Paladin12]

When using MSVC 2008 you need to include the following files in the same folder as your exe:

Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest
msvcm90.dll
msvcp90.dll
msvcr90.dll

Then distribute your app with an installer. I suggest Inno Setup (http://www.innosetup.com/isinfo.php) which is fairly easy to learn to/and use.

You should be good now.