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Asked: 2026-05-11T18:40:03+00:00

Does anyone have instructions on building the opensource version of Qt? Now that the

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Does anyone have instructions on building the opensource version of Qt? Now that the repository is opened up, I’m trying to build for VS2008 but I’m getting errors when it tries to build qmake.

I found the question I'm looking to use Visual Studio to write and compile using the open source version of Qt4 but this information is out of date, and doesn’t really help me. For reference, here’s what happens when I try to build with configure -platform win32-msvc2008

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 9.00.30729.01
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        cl -c -Foproject.obj  -W3 -nologo -O2  -I. -Igenerators -Igenerators\unix -Igenerators\win32 -Igenerators\mac  -
IC:\dev\open_source\qt\include -IC:\dev\open_source\qt\include\QtCore  -IC:\dev\open_source\qt\include -IC:\dev\open_sou
rce\qt\include\QtCore  -IC:\dev\open_source\qt\src\corelib\global  -IC:\dev\open_source\qt\include\QtScript  -IC:\dev\op
en_source\qt\mkspecs\win32-msvc2008   -DQT_NO_TEXTCODEC -DQT_NO_UNICODETABLES -DQT_LITE_COMPONENT -DQT_NODLL -DQT_NO_STL
  -DQT_NO_COMPRESS -DUNICODE -DHAVE_QCONFIG_CPP -DQT_BUILD_QMAKE -DQT_NO_THREAD  -DQT_NO_QOBJECT -DQT_NO_GEOM_VARIANT -D
QT_NO_DATASTREAM -DQT_NO_PCRE -DQT_BOOTSTRAPPED   -DQMAKE_OPENSOURCE_EDITION project.cpp
project.cpp
c:\dev\open_source\qt\src\corelib\tools\qstringlist.h(45) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'QtCore/qalgori
thms.h': No such file or directory
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\cl.EXE"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
Building qmake failed, return code 2
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  1. Editorial Team

    Well, one helpful thing is to run configure inside the Visual Studio Command Prompt. That should be available in the Visual Studio start menu group under Visual Studio Tools.

    Also now when you run configure you don’t have to specify target platform, because it will be set as an environment variable by the VS Command Prompt.

    I got errors from configure and nmake when I did not use the VS Command Prompt, and since switching I have not had any issues.

    So the simple instructions would be:

    1) open VS command prompt

    2) navigate to qt folder where configure.exe is located

    3) configure

    4) nmake

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