MASTER260 wrote:

(Since the VS Add-in does not support Express editions.)

A slight correction to this statement: It is the other way around. The express editions do not support add-ins. Therefore, one cannot use vs addin. See also [developer.qt.nokia.com]

MASTER260 wrote:

Only problem is, configure.exe is not compatible with kernel 6.2. (The Windows 8 Dev Preview is Windows NT 6.2.8102.)

Please refine. configure.exe does work without any problems on Windows 8 Developer Preview. (You will have to add -platform as Windows 8 and MSVC11 aren’t officially supported yet and thus no platform is auto-selected).

However, I have experienced some problems building Qt itself due to changes in the SDK and MSVC11. They can be solved by installing the latest Windows SDK (7.1).

YMVV, but here [projects.developer.nokia.com] are some instructions on building Qt with MSVC11 (includes a list of the missing headers/libs). Also, read the section on patching JSCore if it does not compile for you.