Visual Studio 2015 integration?

technovelist

I need a version of Qt 5 that will work with VS 2015. Up till now I've been using Qt 5.4.2 and would prefer to stay with that version, but I'm willing to upgrade if necessary. Does anyone have a library like http://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.4/5.4.2/qt-opensource-windows-x86-msvc2013_opengl-5.4.2.exe but for msvc2015?

Edit: I have found instructions that purport to tell how to build Qt myself, namely here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32894097/how-do-i-use-qt-in-my-visual-studio-2015-projects.

However, after following those instructions as well as I can, I get this when I try to do the "configure" step:

QMAKESPEC environment variable is set to "win32-msvc2015" which is not a supported platform.
See the README file for a list of supported operating systems and compilers.

There are many README files. Which one should I be looking at for this list?

TheBadger

Have you tried with Qt 5.5 or 5.6a perhaps?

Perhaps win32-msvc2015 was only added in one of the later versions

technovelist

@TheBadger

Well, the problem is that I have a slow, capped internet connection so I don't really want to download another 1/2 GB just to find out that it doesn't help. Is there any way I could look at the relevant README file without having to download the whole thing? And what is the relevant README file in the first place?

TheBadger

Not sure where to look exactly but if you browse the sources on the Woboq site you can see that at least for that version of Qt (not sure which version yet) there is a "win32-msvc2015" mkspec: http://code.woboq.org/qt5/qtbase/mkspecs/

From the qglobal.h file it seems like it is Qt 5.6.0

Edit: I do not have Qt 5.5 to check for you, perhaps someone else can help

TheBadger

On the http://code.q.io page it seems like there is also a mkspec for win32-msvc2015 for Qt v5.5.1: http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/mkspecs?h=v5.5.1

Edit: For v5.4.2 that mkspec did not exist.

technovelist

Thanks. I guess I'll have to download a later version.

TheBadger

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