Visual Studio 🏷️
After preparing the Qt framework,
I needed to check if everything works; therefore I built a very simple Qt (5.2.1) application,
the GUI-equivalent of a “Hello-World” program.
Although one can get pre-built binaries of the Lua (programming language) interpreter, to me that seems to be just a semi-offical or lackluster way.
But luckily, building it yourself from source is very easy (especially with the help of this post from Dennis D. Spreen).
But luckily, building it yourself from source is very easy (especially with the help of this post from Dennis D. Spreen).
Building Qt 5 on Windows with Visual Studio (2014-04-12)
Short guides on how to build your own copy of the Qt 5 framework from source.
These were originally separate blog posts, but since they are now pretty outdated (since they are for old versions of Qt, Windows and Visual Studio),
I combined them here on a single page, for archival purposes (with many dead links…), and edited them a bit.
Building Qt 6 on Windows with Visual Studio (2021-05-09)
Time for another short guidance on how to build your own copy of the Qt framework from source.
Building Qt for static linking (2015-03-31)
One of the drawbacks of using such a comprehensive framework as Qt is the massively increased size of you program.
When my pet project RandFill was only using the plain Win32-API, it was a single executable file of a couple of hundred kilobytes.
Now, using dynamically linked Qt, the whole package (with DLLs, MSVC redistributables, etc.) is bigger than 20 megabytes as a 64-bit build!
CMake, Visual Studio and Qt 5 with MOC... (2014-06-15)
After building a 64-bit version of Qt with/for Microsoft Visual Studio,
building a simple Qt test program and doing
first steps with the CMake build system, the next hurdle appeared
on the horizon in the form of support for Qt and its Q_OBJECT features (I am currently fighting more
with the changes I made to my build environment than improving the actual program code…).
Describes a few tips on how to generate a 64-bit project for Visual Studio with CMake.
This is a brief post on how to use CMake to setup a Visual Studio 2019 solution on Windows
that will use the LLVM Clang compiler instead of the orginal Visual C++ one.
Icons: Visual Studio Image Library (2018-04-26)
Although not new, I stumbled just now upon a fine collection of icons from Microsoft1,
the Visual Studio Image Library:
A while ago, my Visual Studio installation was caught in a “please-reboot-loop” after an update.
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