Adding Qt to an Existing Visual Studio project?

LiamMaru

As above, aside from doing it manually, is there an easy way to configure an existing project to use Qt?

DenisKormalev

You can try to run
@
qmake -project
@
in your sources folder, after it check .pro file for all needed sources, headers and libs and convert it to .vcproj using VS-addin

LiamMaru

Mixed results, essentially broke my project file, thought I could recover it but no such luck. Any other ideas?

DenisKormalev

If it didn't help then manual solution will definitely do the trick :) Maybe there are some other ways in msvs. Didn't use it (except msvc 6 and small projects in msvc 2005), so don't know.

giesbert

you can just add the libs and include paths, but it then is no "real" Qt project, which means Qt plug-in will not add moc steps etc.

SO two options:

do it by hand :-(

create a pro file and convert it to vcproj file --> do the settings again :-(

DenisKormalev

There is a third option - switch to QtCreator. But it is a serious tool switch and, of course, it will require some manual operations on creating project.

giesbert

And it does not always work :-)

I like creator, but for business, I have to use MSVS. We have our build system based on MSVS, so there is no way around, and I don't know, whether it is something similar for him.

LiamMaru

Thanks guys, I ended up doing it manually, including modifying the project file to get it to moc properly. I could switch to Qt creator, however there are a few problems:

It's a DLL project (I'm not sure if this is an issue).
It's massive.

Which IDE I use has flow on effects for other developers I work with, so it's gotta be Visual Studio. There's a bit of manual fiddling here and there, but hopefully it will suffice.

cardio63

I'm new to Qt and need to do what you did "manually". Perhaps I simply haven't found it yet, but can you point me to he manual steps you used? Thanks.

khrl01

If you have an proper *.pro file You can do :
qmake -tp vc

(see QMake manual "Creating Visual Studio Project Files")

regards
karl-heinz