Compiling QT 5.10 on Windows Server 2012 R2 and VC 2017
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Hello,
I'm trying to compile QT 5.10 (everywhere-source) on Windowser Server 2012 R2 with VC 2017 because I want static linking. I tried to follow these instructiuons : https://doc-snapshots.qt.io/qt5-dev/windows-building.html . I altered the file as such:
CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat " x86
SET _ROOT=D:\QT\qt-5.10.0
but I'm getting errors trying to run this.
Error in script usage. The correct usage is:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat " [option]I've seen a lot of different problems reported with vcvarsall.bat but none of the suggested solutions that I found solved mine. Trying to manually set the paths for example to nmake.exe will only create compile errors when trying to compile qt.
Is there any documentation on what parameters I need to set for my system ? or is my VC installation buggy ? I was able build apps with the installer version of qt.Regards,
Gerhard -
The solution that worked for me is to start "Developer Command Prompt for VS2017" (default) followed by running configure.bat in my case with following parameters:
configure.bat -static -debug -platform win32-msvc -skip qtwebkit -prefix d:\qt
... it's still compiling at this moment so not sure yet if it will actually complete successfull yet...
To me this means that the article : https://doc-snapshots.qt.io/qt5-dev/windows-building.html is not valid for all windows / visual studio versions or an incomplete description.
Cheers,
Gerhard