Is there any install of Qt Open Source for VS 2019 that works?
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I am trying to install Qt 5 for development on a Windows 8.1 PC using the online installer. I can install the MinGW variants for Qt 5.15.2 in 32- and 64-bit flavours, but everything I try to install for Visual Studio 2019 fails. I can understand why Qt 6 might be an issue as I believe it requires Windows 10 for development. I get this sort of error which aborts the installation:
Installer Error --------------------------- Error during installation process (qt.qt5.5151.win64_msvc2019_64): --------------------------- Retry Ignore Cancel ---------------------------Is Visual Studio 2019 Qt development no longer supported on Windows 8.1?
TIA
Bill Somerville. -
If you have python you cold also try using aqtinstall as an alternative to the official installer if it's causing you problems
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I am trying to install Qt 5 for development on a Windows 8.1 PC using the online installer. I can install the MinGW variants for Qt 5.15.2 in 32- and 64-bit flavours, but everything I try to install for Visual Studio 2019 fails. I can understand why Qt 6 might be an issue as I believe it requires Windows 10 for development. I get this sort of error which aborts the installation:
Installer Error --------------------------- Error during installation process (qt.qt5.5151.win64_msvc2019_64): --------------------------- Retry Ignore Cancel ---------------------------Is Visual Studio 2019 Qt development no longer supported on Windows 8.1?
TIA
Bill Somerville.@bsomervi said in Is there any install of Qt Open Source for VS 2019 that works?:
Is Visual Studio 2019 Qt development no longer supported on Windows 8.1?
It is supported.
Sometimes the installer has troubles downloading components to install. You can try to installe a bit later, or change the used mirror. -
If you have python you cold also try using aqtinstall as an alternative to the official installer if it's causing you problems
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@bsomervi said in Is there any install of Qt Open Source for VS 2019 that works?:
Is Visual Studio 2019 Qt development no longer supported on Windows 8.1?
It is supported.
Sometimes the installer has troubles downloading components to install. You can try to installe a bit later, or change the used mirror.@jsulm thanks for the confirmation it should be working. I have installed Qt 5.15.2 for 32-bit Visual Studio 2019 development. It seems the 64-bit packages are where the problem lies. I don't think it is a download error issue, I have tried many times and it always fails after the package downloads have completed.
At least I can progress with the 32-bit package.
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If you have python you cold also try using aqtinstall as an alternative to the official installer if it's causing you problems
@VRonin thanks for the suggestion, that worked nicely. I only needed to add the VS 2019 64-bit package to the ones already installed using the official online installer, so followed the instructions to install into C:\Qt.
Do you happen to know how to get QtCreator to see the architecture that I installed using aqtinstall? It is not appearing in the list of options for configuring the build of a project.
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@VRonin thanks for the suggestion, that worked nicely. I only needed to add the VS 2019 64-bit package to the ones already installed using the official online installer, so followed the instructions to install into C:\Qt.
Do you happen to know how to get QtCreator to see the architecture that I installed using aqtinstall? It is not appearing in the list of options for configuring the build of a project.
