在Windows 7上安装Qt 5.5

Question

I would like to install latest version of Qt (5.5) on Windows 7 for C/C++ application development, and have a few questions:

1. Can I use Microsoft "Visual Studio Community" edition (2015) as the compiler?
2. I assume I need to install Visual studio first and then Qt?
3. I am going to install Qt from here , after downloading and installation do I need to build Qt? Or it is ready to go?

Is there a tutorial that explains all the required steps in details. I have done Google search and found bits and pieces here and there not not a good complete step-by-step reference. Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

You need the compiler, which is integrated in visual studio. I don't think you can get the newer ones without Visual Studio (From official sources). However, you can use Qt on windows without msvc. You can build with the minGw compiler - but I personally like msvc more.

Regarding VS2015: It won't work without extra configuration. Qt 5.5 supports msvc2013 only (the next release, 5.6, will support the msvc2015 compiler). But Visual Studio 2013 will work. The order of installation doesn't matter.

After you installed Qt, all you need to do is launch Qt-Creator and start coding ;) If you wan't to use Visual Studio instead, there is a Plugin on the bottom of the download page ("Other downloads"). Visual Studio 2015 isn't supported here too, but 2013 is.