Question

I’ve currently got a project going in VS2008, but I want to use a couple of QT libraries. I’ve been told that If I install QT, I can configure it to compile using the VS2008 compiler, and so just transfer my work so far over, and be able to use the QT library as well. Is this the best solution, or can I install the QT Visual Studio plug-in, and use QT libraries through that?

(The libraries I want to use don’t come with the basic QT package, and need to be downloaded and installed separately). e.g. http://qwt.sourceforge.net/

Many Thanks

Answer 1

You have two choices:

• if standard compilation options fit with your needs, take the sdk
• otherwise, compile it : using a reasonably modern computer, compiling Qt 4.7.1 with QtWebkit (that you most probably don’t need) takes around 100 minutes

Note that

• installing Visual Addon won’t prevent you from installing the sdk : the addon is just here to helps with debugging / UI edition
• your project will have to be generated by either CMake or qmake so that your files are moced correctly (preprocessing of header files)
• anyway, you’ll have to compile qwt yourself

My personalize advice: go for compilation and if it’s the first time, compile the examples as well are they are more than useful to begin with.