Compiling Qt Creator with MingW in WinXP

Panoss

I want to compile Qt Creator with MingW in WinXP.
I want to avoid Visual Studio because I want to repeat it in Win 7 (Qt Creator with MingW in Win 7) so that I will be able to work both in Win XP and Win 7 and they will both have MingW, so that there will be compatibility between these two.

First af all, I should use Qt 5.6 with MingW, which works both in in XP and Win 7, right?
Which exactly version of online installer should I use? This one?

qt-opensource-windows-x86-mingw492-5.6.0?

Where can I find the source?

Maybe some of the files in here?

Do I need Qt SDK? Which version?

(I have in one partition, C:, my Windows 7 installation, and in F:, my windows XP instalalion. Maybe I could install - compile Qt-MingW in C: and be usable from both Win 7 and Win XP without having to compile-install twice? But only once for both Win XP and Win7?)

jsulm

@Panoss According to this page Qt 5.6 only supports deployment to Windows XP but not compiling: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/supported-platforms-and-configurations.html
qt-opensource-windows-x86-mingw492-5.6.0 - is not online installer. You can get the online installer from here: https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/
Here is explained how to get Qt source code: https://wiki.qt.io/Get_the_Source
Why do you want to use Windows XP? This OS should not even have an Internet connection!

Panoss

My pc is relatively old, so with XP it's much faster.
Believe me, XP is a very nice OS.

Can I compile it once (e.g in C:) and use it in Win XP and Win 7? Or is it a silly idea?

jsulm

@Panoss Ut should work on XP if you build on 7

Panoss

@jsulm said in Compiling Qt Creator with MingW in WinXP:

qt-opensource-windows-x86-mingw492-5.6.0 - is not online installer. You can get the online installer from here: https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/

Forgive me but I 'm a bit confused. Do I need an online installer? :) (I already have Maintenance tools, I haven't uninstalled Qt from C:\Qt)

What about qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.3.0.zip from here?
This should be fine for Win XP + Win 7, right?

Till now I have:

Installed Active Perl 5.24.1.
Downloaded jom.exe.
fart.exe, downloaded.
Uninstalled Visual Studio.
downloaded qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.3.0.zip

Now I should install MinGW ? Which version?

Panoss

Ok, I'm having second thoughts...again :).
Well, I'm thinking of installing Visual Studio 10 in my C: drive (where I have Win 7).
Will Win XP (this is in F:) be able to use this Qt installation with Visual Studio 10?

Panoss

Finally: I installed MS Visual C++ in Win 7.
Qt Creator Works fine in Win 7.
But not in XP, it says 'it's not a valid win32 Application'.

Panoss

Final...finally: I installed qt-windows-opensource-5.0.2-msvc2010_32-x86-offline.exe in Win XP and everything works like a charm!!!

mrjj

@Panoss
OK so 5.02 works.
Super.

Believe me, XP is a very nice OS.
I know. but its really dead now patch wise and very full of unpatched holes so
for most of us, its just not secure enough to be allowed in a production environment but i do understand
home use is different. :)
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/22489/