"Needs a compiler set up to build" type issue

Zamaster

I got a brand new w8 (I know I know, but unavoidable) laptop and I have tried installing many different flavors of Qt but for all of them, when I try to run a project I get the "Qt Creator needs a compiler set up to build" error. I have Visual Studio 2013 installed and I go through the hoops to manually select a compiler and whats even more baffling:

!http://s27.postimg.org/5resuc6hv/Untitled.png(Error)!

Anybody have any thoughts? Thanks!

Zamaster

Okay looking at my own error, I hadn't noticed the '13 / '12 mismatch. I suppose there's no way (short of compiling qt myself) to get things working without installing the whole of visual studio 2012?

hskoglund

Perhaps install Qt for the free MinGW compiler as a workaround.

Zamaster

I sucked it up and just installed vs2012, alas. Thanks or the suggestion though!

hskoglund

Good. (MinGW works fine but for example, the QtCreator you install are built with VS2010, so if you want to make a plugin for it using MinGW, you'll first have to rebuild and change to a MinGW-flavored build of QtCreator.)

BTW if you're going to deploy Qt apps for Windows XP or Windows 2003 server, you need to update your VS2012 installation. Update 4 (the latest and the greatest) works fine.

Project try

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this guy , he's right , I had the same problem when I installed qt " i'm new " I solved it by installing VS2010.