Qt Creator and MS C++ Build Tools

Nikolay D. Bychinskiy

Offline Qt Creator 4.0 + Offline Qt 5.6.0 for win x86_64 VS 2015, windows 10.
I found it patch here - https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/147865/ it seems to add C++ Build tools detection.
This was the only half-relevant result that I got by looking up this issue. It seems to be code of some plugin, I just mentioned it because it was the only search result that wasn't completely irrelevant.

SGaist

The patch has been merge so it should be in.

Where do you have these tools located on your machine ?

Nikolay D. Bychinskiy

Default location. It should detect it.

SGaist

The full path would be useful in this case to check with the code.

Nikolay D. Bychinskiy

It installs multiple things, code checks for vcbuildtools.bat in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools" which I have.

Mauro177

I'm in same situation of Nikolay. QtCreator 4.0 doesn't detect MS C++ Build Tools, on a Win 7 32 bit machine, and there isn't a way to manually add MSVC toolchain.
On the same machine, QtCreator 3.6.1 auto detects MSVC toolchain correctly.

synasius

Same here. Qt Creator 4.0 cannot detect MS C++ Build Tools. I'm running a Windows Server 2012 64bit

LorenzoB

I'm having the same problem on a Win 7 Desktop.
Are Qt Creator 4.0 and Qt 5.6 compatible with:
Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015
Version 14.0.23107.0 D14REL

synasius

Hi all,
the issue seems to be fixed here: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-16136

joaopagotto

Hello . I'm MSVC2015 problems , it does not work and gives as not recognized CL command. What can it be ?

SGaist

Hi,

Did you install Visual Studio 2015 or at least the corresponding Build Tool package ?

joaopagotto

It worked and stopped for no reason.

I can only do work that way.

Open Windows 10 Line Command:

%comspec% /k ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"" x86

C:\Qt\Tools\QtCreator\bin\qtcreator.exe

Only in this way works.

Along with MSVC 2015 package appears an exclamation mark .

SGaist

You should be able to get more information hovering the exclamation mark

joaopagotto

https://s32.postimg.org/p0mazvdsl/error.png

SGaist

Silly question but do you have setup cmake in the corresponding tab ?

joaopagotto

The problem was solved.

The operating system or visual studio 2015 should be corrupted after formatting and reinstalling everything functioned normally .

Other applications were also with strange behavior .

SGaist

2016 and reformatting still works well it seems :D

Glad you found a solution and thanks for sharing.

Since you have it working now, please mark the thread as solved using the "Topic Tools" button so that other forum users may know a solution has been found :)

twar

Hello,
I've got exactly the same problem and I do not know how to fix it.

I installed
https://www.visualstudio.com/pl/downloads/?rr=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.pl%2F
Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017
but I cannot set this in qtcreator.

jsulm

@twar What exact Qt version did you install?
"but I cannot set this in qtcreator" - what exactly is the problem?

twar

Sorry for trouble it was my bad.
I tried to use Qt 5.6.3 for Windows 64-bit with build tools for visual studio 2017 but now I downloaded Qt 5.9.2 for Windows (2.2 GB) (info) and it seems to work just fine.