Compiling non-QT library with QT/MinGW. Where's the Qt shell/terminal for using the MinGW toolchain?

[CoryG]

I want to compile an open source project, portmidi, with the toolchain provided with Qt on Windows (MinGW). The project does have a cmake build script. Does Qt have a shell/terminal with access to the toolchain like msys/mingw? I see the mingw directory in C:\Qt\Tools\mingw1120_64 but no shell. Thanks!

[Christian Ehrlicher]

You have a link to cmd which sets up the environment in your start menu.

[cristian-adam]

Just open a terminal and then:

$ set PATH=C:\Qt\Tools\mingw1120_64\bin;%PATH%
$ gcc --version

You are all set.

But if you want to build it, I would suggest using vcpkg since it has a port https://vcpkg.roundtrip.dev/ports/portmidi