How can I specify WinXP MSVC platform toolset when building Qt from source?

ZeBe

I am building Qt 5.10.1 from source and wish to specify the "vs141_xp" platform toolset to make the libraries and my programs Windows XP compatible. How can I do this?

The way I currently build Qt is from the VS 2017 x86 Native command prompt like this:

configure -prefix d:\qt5101 -release -optimize-size -strip -static -static-runtime -mp -silent
nmake
nmake install

Thanks

aha_1980

@ZeBe

Don't waste your time: Qt 5.10 is not compatible to Windows XP.

The latest version you can take is Qt 5.6.x.

Regards.

ZeBe

@aha_1980 Thanks.

ZeBe

So the solution to this is to download and install:

Visual Studio 2017
Qt 5.6.3 sources
Perl 5.12
Python 2.7
Ruby 1.9
Win-Flex/Bison

Start the VS2017 x86 command line prompt, then step into qt\5.6.3\src and configure and build f.ex. like this:

configure  -prefix path\to\qt\5.6.3\vs2017-xp32-static  -release  -static  -static-runtime  -target xp  -strip  -mp
nmake
nmake install

You should now have a new kit called "vs2017-xp32-static" that will produce binaries compatible with WinXP 32-bit, which are stand-alone without dependencies.

If you only need basic Core and GUI functionality, then step into src\qtbase and build from there instead.

Good luck