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Building Qt Desktop for Windows with MinGW or MinGW-w64
Do I need to build Qt?
Perhaps not. The official Qt SDk installer will work just fine. Follow these steps only if you want to learn how to make a cutom build.
p. Needed if you aim x64 target.
Required SDKs and tools
Here are the tools required to build a Qt Shared or a Qt Static library. First, please, download:
- Qt source code: Get the .tar.gz from http://qt.nokia.com/downloads or checkout a copy from http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt
- On machines not having a previous Qt version already installed you need to install also Perl (e.g. ActivePerl [activestate.com] ) prior to configure. Otherwise you may receive following error message at the end of configure:
> Perl not found in environment – cannot run syncqt. - MinGW: Get MinGW (?) (What version? Where? OK to use copy from a separate Qt SDK install?)
- MinGW-w64 : http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
Filesystem setup
place unzip downloaded files? A concrete example like c:\myqt, would be good. We want to be sure not to require or interfere with a parallel Qt SDK install.
Command shell setup
Just use MinGW shell? QtMinGW shell? We want to be sure not to require or interfere with a parallel Qt SDK install.
Build configuration
including talk of “release vs debug” and “static vs dynamic”. Multi-core build process?
How to use your freshly built copy of Qt
Example using hand-made .pro file.
TODO
Example using Qt Creator
TODO
Debugging 64 bits process with gdb/MinGW-w64
TODO
