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    Hello. I'm trying to set up the Visual Studio plugin for Qt, but which qmake.exe am I supposed to give it?

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      Hello. I'm trying to set up the Visual Studio plugin for Qt, but which qmake.exe am I supposed to give it?

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      @spiritsoft The one from Qt installation you want to use...

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        It tells me that "qmake.exe was not found" in whichever folder I choose.

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          It tells me that "qmake.exe was not found" in whichever folder I choose.

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          @spiritsoft said in Which qmake exe?:

          It tells me that "qmake.exe was not found" in whichever folder I choose.

          Which folders did you choose?

          Which folder did you install Qt into?

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            I installed Qt in C:\Qt. Here's a picture of the error message. (If there's a "main" compiler, knowing its location would be helpful.)Screenshot 2021-02-16 121633.png

            I get it now: You have to choose the folder above "bin". It would've been nice if that was in the instructions.

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              @spiritsoft said in Which qmake exe?:

              It would've been nice if that was in the instructions.

              Why? You have to specify the path to your Qt installation which is C:\Qt\5.15.2\msvc2019 and not C:\Qt\5.15.2\msvc2019\bin and the red error message also tells you the problem.

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                @spiritsoft said in Which qmake exe?:

                It would've been nice if that was in the instructions.

                Why? You have to specify the path to your Qt installation which is C:\Qt\5.15.2\msvc2019 and not C:\Qt\5.15.2\msvc2019\bin and the red error message also tells you the problem.

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                @Christian-Ehrlicher because the guide doesn't even hint that you shouldn't choose the "bin" folder.

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                  @Christian-Ehrlicher because the guide doesn't even hint that you shouldn't choose the "bin" folder.

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                  @spiritsoft said in Which qmake exe?:

                  the guide

                  which guide?
                  At some point, you could even provide a patch to update/improve the documentation...

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                    @spiritsoft said in Which qmake exe?:

                    the guide

                    which guide?
                    At some point, you could even provide a patch to update/improve the documentation...

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                    @Pablo-J-Rogina This one

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