installing qt in Vista.

[impeteperry]

I've tried the various suggestions the best my feabe mind will allow without success. I keep ending un with a box listing the contents of my qt dowrload items labled "Compresse(zipped) Folders with a "extract all" button. If I click on this i get the 3 day plus remaining time I mentioned in my first post..

I'm quitting!!!!!!!!!!!Thanks for all your help however.
petel

[wysota]

Did you read the INSTALL file that comes with the installation bundle?

[impeteperry]

Hi wysota, you must be getting tired of me!
I had trouble when I oppened INSTALL before, so I cleaned everything I could find and reloaded the mingw version of Qt.
ran the "setup". They reside in a "c:Qt" folder
I found where my g++ s were in tar.gz form in "files" wherever that is
I got it so it ran the various examples in an introductory form but can't repeat.
I now have a Qt.4.4.3 command Prompt in the "Start" column
I haven't been able to transfer the g++ files to the c:/4.3.3 file yet but working on.

going to bed now and dream of "sudo apt-get install g++"
Again thanks.

[aamer4yu]

You were trying Qt with Visual Studio I guess ?
Also what Utility are you using to extract / unzip the files ?

I can summarize the steps I do for installing open source version with visual studio -

1. Download the qt-win-opensource-src-4.4.3.zip (which you have downloaded I guess)
2. I use WinRar to extract the zip files. You can get WinRar from here .

3. Extract the qt-win-opensource-src-4.4.3.zip to C:\Qt folder. This takes about 3-5 minutes to extract. Be patient

4. Rename the folder to "C:\Qt\4.4.3"

5. Open Visual Studio Command Prompt and go to C:\Qt\4.4.3 folder

6. Run configure.exe from this path. This will take about 15-20 minutes.

7. After that you will be asked to run nmake. So just type nmake and press enter
This takes a long time, about 3 hours or more... so just leave it and relax till it compiles.

8. To use Qt, set "C:\Qt\4.4.3\bin" path to environment variables.

To make .pro files, you will need to type : qmake -project
and to make VC project file,,, qmake -tp vc
Then on you can open the .vcproject in Visual studio and run ur program.


Well, considering your seniority, I didnt wrote the steps to teach you how to do it, but rather that the steps work for me and will give you an idea if you are missing something.

[impeteperry]

I appreciate your effort, but right now I am deep into the "mingw" version of Qt. I am not using visual studio. I find there are 3 versions and I had asked for reccomendations for whic version to buy. (I am a Linux user).

I have grc-g++-3.45-20060117.tar.gz in my documents file
I have gcc-core-3.45-20060117.tar.gz there also
I have binutils-2.18.50-20080109.2.tar " "
I have binutils-2.17.50-20060824.1.tar " "
I have Qt-4.4.3 in c:
I have Qt 4.4.3 Command Promt

But when I go to run a demo.release, i get the message "mingwm10.dll not found
when I run ./configure from the command line I get a cant find g++

From the INSTALL text, I gather I have to BUY (damm windows) a "Visual Studio" but which one if there isn't anyway around it

pete

[aamer4yu]

Are you able to run demos from bin folder ?
C:\Qt-4.4.3\bin\demo.exe ? There is launch button there... see if it runs from there.

Also I get that error when i try to run the exe from Windows/Explorer.
What I do is, open the .pro file in Qt Creator and run the example/program from there.
Other than the Qt Creator, I havent tried Qt with mingw.

[wysota]

As far as I know you don't have to download anything apart from the big bundle containing Qt. The installer will ask you if you have MinGW installed. Tell it that you don't have it and it will deploy a local copy of MinGW with everything setup. Then just open the Qt Command prompt and start compiling Qt apps.