How to use Qt VS Tools on VS BuildTools for CI/CD

[Giovanni Cerretani]

I'm using a Docker image based on Windows to build non-Qt C++ Visual Studio 2019 projects as part of CI/CD.

The Docker image has been built using this official Microsoft tutorial. So far so good, in this Docker image I invoke builds using

msbuild MyProject.vcxproj /p:configuration=Release /p:platform=x64 

and everything is working like a charm.

Now, I've a VS2019 project based on Qt, that is using the excellent Qt VS Tools extension to compile. It is very simple to be used on a desktop instance of Visual Studio, but I can't figure out how to install, configure and eventually use the extension on my docker image.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Giovanni Cerretani]

Solved using this answer on StackOverflow.