cannot compile Windows Platform SDK code with QtCreator and mingw

[kompotFX]

thank you for quick response even it wasnt so informative.
the BluetoothAPIs.h has nothing to do with files wich comes with mingw, its pure Win Platform SDK thing. Unfortunatelly Qt library has no support for bluetooth functionality neither. So I have to use some 3rd party libs for that.

Do you personaly have any experience with including Microsoft Platform SDK\Include headers to qt project and building it with mingw?

[wysota]

the BluetoothAPIs.h has nothing to do with files wich comes with mingw,

If it includes some standard header for which MinGW provides its own version then files that come with MinGW have lots to do with that.

Unfortunatelly Qt library has no support for bluetooth functionality neither.

Actually as far as I know it does in QtMobility 1.1. But I might be wrong or it might not support the functionality you need.

Do you personaly have any experience with including Microsoft Platform SDK\Include headers to qt project and building it with mingw?

I personally have experience that MinGW has its own runtime which is incompatible with the runtime for MSVC and some files that replace the ones for MSVC which is what Microsoft provides. I don't know if your issue is related to that, I only say it might be. What you can try is to build your test application with bare MinGW (without using Qt Creator, Qt or qmake) but this requires some knowledge about building applications from the command line which is uncommon for people used to doing everything with a button click in Visual Studio. If you have such knowledge then it might be the time to use it.

[kompotFX]

QtMobility I guess targeted only for Symbian and Maemo stuff.

If it includes some standard header for which MinGW provides its own version then files that come with MinGW have lots to do with that.

exactly. there are conflicts between headers from platform sdk and mingw.
and I cannot see any solution so far how to use mingw compiler here. The easiest way to switch to msvc. I just wanted to use QtCreator ("editor" as u says) instead of Visual Studio "editor". Unfortunatelly its "glued" to mingw, so there is no other choice.

Thanks for trying to help me.

[squidge]

Incorrect. 'mingw' is not 'glued' to QtCreator at all, you can use whichever compiler you prefer. Have a look at the makefiles.

[Zlatomir]

And also you can use Qt with the Visual Studio (IDE and VC++ compiler)

[kompotFX]

As already said it is not glued to anything. It supports everything qmake or cmake support, msvc included.

in build settings the Tool chain filed is MinGW and its grey colour not editable. How to change it?

And also you can use Qt with the Visual Studio (IDE and VC++ compiler)

thats what I meant by saying "and I cannot see any solution so far how to use mingw compiler here. The easiest way to switch to msvc. "

[wysota]

in build settings the Tool chain filed is MinGW and its grey colour not editable. How to change it?

If you want to use Qt then you have to have Qt built for MSVC (either from binary if available or built yourself). Then qmake should already be set up for MSVC. If you don't need Qt then you need to tell qmake to use the proper specs (win32-msvc<something>) by adjusting the build steps (you need to pass a -specs parameter with appropriate argument).

[kompotFX]

If you want to use Qt then you have to have Qt built for MSVC (either from binary if available or built yourself). Then qmake should already be set up for MSVC. If you don't need Qt then you need to tell qmake to use the proper specs (win32-msvc<something>) by adjusting the build steps (you need to pass a -specs parameter with appropriate argument).

I have installed both:
Qt libraries 4.7.0 for Windows (VS 2008, 226 MB)
Qt SDK for Windows* (322 MB) - this comes with QtCreator and mingw
(*Based on MinGW (download sources) tool set. Does not support VS compiler.)

In QtCreator I open Tools - Options - Qt4 - Qt versions tab.
There is c:\qt\2010.05\qt\bin\qmake.exe as autodetected version (which is Qt SDK for Windows installation).
When I try to add 4.7.0 qmake for VS2008 it is message in bottom of settings window telling me "Qt version is not properly installed, please run make install". However Qt library 4.7.0 for Windows is properly installed and I able to build current project using Visual Studio without any problems. What should I do to make it recognisable by QtCreator? I just guess it is LGPL license restrictions not to use msvc stuff in QtCreator. Or am I wrong?

[wysota]

The licence has nothing to do with it.

[kompotFX]

As already said it is not glued to anything. It supports everything qmake or cmake support, msvc included.

If you want to use Qt then you have to have Qt built for MSVC (either from binary if available or built yourself). Then qmake should already be set up for MSVC. If you don't need Qt then you need to tell qmake to use the proper specs (win32-msvc<something>) by adjusting the build steps (you need to pass a -specs parameter with appropriate argument).

The licence has nothing to do with it.

Actually I dont care so much about if it is license or something else to do with it. You are telling me that QtCreator not glued to mingw, so logically I assume it is possible to setup it to use Qt built for msvc and trigger msvc compiler to build the code etc..
Can you tell me exactly, how to do this? Step-by-step if it is possible or at least be more speciffic?

[wysota]

I can try (although I've never done it myself) but please tell me what is unclear in what I explained in post #10. Did you find where to adjust the build steps in Creator?

I can tell you the simplest way to do it is to run Qt Creator when qmake built for Visual Studio is the first qmake in the PATH - then you shouldn't need to adjust anything - Creator should pick up the appropriate configuration itself. At least it was so for one of the previous versions of Creator but I suspect nothing has changed in this regard.

[kompotFX]

I can try (although I've never done it myself) but please tell me what is unclear in what I explained in post #10. Did you find where to adjust the build steps in Creator?

I can tell you the simplest way to do it is to run Qt Creator when qmake built for Visual Studio is the first qmake in the PATH - then you shouldn't need to adjust anything - Creator should pick up the appropriate configuration itself. At least it was so for one of the previous versions of Creator but I suspect nothing has changed in this regard.

I can repeat step by step what I do:

I have installed both:
Qt libraries 4.7.0 for Windows (VS 2008, 226 MB)
Qt SDK for Windows* (322 MB) - this comes with QtCreator and mingw
(*Based on MinGW (download sources) tool set. Does not support VS compiler.)

In QtCreator I open Tools - Options - Qt4 - Qt versions tab.
There is c:\qt\2010.05\qt\bin\qmake.exe as autodetected version (which is Qt SDK for Windows installation).
When I try to add 4.7.0 qmake for VS2008 it is message in bottom of settings window telling me "Qt version is not properly installed, please run make install". However Qt library 4.7.0 for Windows is properly installed and I able to build current project using Visual Studio without any problems. What should I do to make it recognisable by QtCreator?

Do you have QtCreator in front of you? Windows? Have Qt libraries 4.7.0 for Windows (VS 2008, 226 MB) installed? Than probably it should be not problem for you to explain which settigng window I have to open and what to write/select there.

[wysota]

QtMobility I guess targeted only for Symbian and Maemo stuff.

No, that's not true.

and I cannot see any solution so far how to use mingw compiler here.

So why don't you go to a MinGW forum and ask there?

The easiest way to switch to msvc. I just wanted to use QtCreator ("editor" as u says) instead of Visual Studio "editor". Unfortunatelly its "glued" to mingw, so there is no other choice.

As already said it is not glued to anything. It supports everything qmake or cmake support, msvc included.