configure -platform win32-msvc2008 -> execute: File or path is not found (make)

carljoerger

Hello,
I'm trying to create the 5.7 library using the VS2008 command prompt.

I type:
configure -platform win32-msvc2008

but I get:
Creating qmake...
execute: File or path is not found (make)
execute: File or path is not found (make)
Cleaning qmake failed, return code -1

Could someone give me an idea where to go from here?
Thanks,
Carl

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

The first thing to do is update VS, Qt 5.7 requires at least VS2013 update 1 see here.

carljoerger

Thanks, SGaist.
My real goal is to compile Qt for Windows Embedded Compact 7, and WEC7 requires VS2008. This blog post seems to say that Qt 5.7 is supported for WEC7 -

https://blog.qt.io/blog/2013/07/30/the-state-of-wince-support-in-qt5/

I assumed that since I saw folders for win32-msvc2008 and wince70embedded-x86-msvc2008 in the mkspecs directory, that both of these configurations could be built with Qt 5.7.

But I haven't been able to get farther than my last post. If I need to move back to Qt 4.x, that would be ok, too.

Thanks

SGaist

5.7 is not mentioned on that post (which is currently 3 years old). In any case, 5.7 requires a C++11 capable compiler which VS2008 is not.

It might still be possible with 5.6 though.

carljoerger

Do you think that the requirements for 5.6 are different? What does it mean that win32-msvc2008 and wince70embedded-x86-msvc2008 are in the mkspecs directory?

SGaist

They are, 5.6 can still be built with C++98 compilers. Starting with 5.7 C++11 support is mandatory.

They are still there for historical reasons. For example, you can also find the old macx-gcc makespecs.