Can't configure for Win32 MSVC .NET

**saber850** · 27th February 2006, 19:50

I downloaded QT 4.1.1 OpenSource and can't get it to configure.
I tried:
configure -platform win32-msvc.net
but it reports:
Invalid option "win32-msvc.net" for -platform.

Trying to set QMAKESPEC to win32-msvc.net and running just "configure" yields an error to the same effect.

Any ideas?

**brcain** · 27th February 2006, 20:11

You have to use MinGW for open-source edition.

You can use the prebuilt installation, qt-win-opensource-4.1.1-mingw.exe, at:
http://www.trolltech.com/download/qt/windows.html

**saber850** · 27th February 2006, 20:45

Originally Posted by brcain

You have to use MinGW for open-source edition.

Is there a particular reason for this? Does the commercial version support MSVC? If so, why not the open source one?

**jacek** · 27th February 2006, 21:00

Originally Posted by saber850

Does the commercial version support MSVC?

Yes.

Originally Posted by saber850

If so, why not the open source one?

http://www.qtcentre.org/forum/showthread.php?t=765

**BrainB0ne** · 28th February 2006, 08:34

Originally Posted by saber850

Is there a particular reason for this? Does the commercial version support MSVC? If so, why not the open source one?

there is a way you can patch the opensource version.. so it will support msvc.net and msvc2005..

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=49109

**jpn** · 28th February 2006, 09:51

Originally Posted by BrainB0ne

there is a way you can patch the opensource version.. so it will support msvc.net and msvc2005..

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=49109

I wonder how Trolltech takes this kind of patch.....
As I have understood it's against their policy.

**ChristianEhrlicher** · 28th February 2006, 10:50

Originally Posted by jpn

I wonder how Trolltech takes this kind of patch.....
As I have understood it's against their policy.

What is against their policy? Don't understand this...
Qt-opensource-win is GPL and the patch is too - so what to blame?

**saber850** · 28th February 2006, 16:37

Originally Posted by jacek

http://www.qtcentre.org/forum/showthread.php?t=765

Thanks for the link and kudos to Trolltech.

**saber850** · 28th February 2006, 16:42

Thanks to all for the quick and helpfull responses.
My interest in QT (at this time) is so I can build and debug KDiff3 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/kdiff3/). KDiff3 was working well before Corp IT started remotely administering our Windows machines. Now KDiff3 takes 10-20 seconds to start.
Using SysInternals' FileMon I see a bunch of stuff happening, including BUFFER OVERFLOW results. So I wanted to step through KDiff3 in a debugger to find the source(s) of these problems.

Thanks again.