QT windows installation error

[Arqam]

I installed QT on Windows as per what was said in the instruction, but when I created a QT Widget application I am getting the following error :

Running Windows Runtime device detection.
No winrtrunner.exe found.
Project ERROR: Cannot run compiler 'cl'. Maybe you forgot to setup the environment?

Also, in my Qt creator project directory I cannot see anything apart from my .pro file.
So what should I do to remove this error?

Qt installed : 5.9.1
IDE : Qt Creator.

In my Qt folder which is installed when I see the Tools folder it just has QtCreator folder and no compiler folder. Is it wrong

[mrjj]

what Qt ? for visual studio or for mingw?

[J.Hilk]

@Arqam said in QT windows installation error:

No winrtrunner.exe found.

from personal experience I would guess you're running Win 10 and msvc-Compiler 2015 or 2017. right?

you'll need to link against the correct windows sdk package to build successfully.

[Arqam]

@J.Hilk We need to link what to correct windows sdk package. I am new to windows, I am trying to change the value of Tools > Options > Kits to MinGW that I installed but its not giving any result.

[mrjj]

Did you install visual studio from Microsoft site ?

[Arqam]

@mrjj Is it necessary to install visual studio to run the Qt program or can we do with just MinGW ?

[mrjj]

@Arqam
Mingw will be just fine.