[bt-devel] Windows installer tool choice

jd campbell jdc.email at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 23:34:25 MST 2009


Has anyone tried Qt-Creator the Free IDE by Qt for Qt development?
www.qtsoftware.com/developer/*qt*-*creator

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On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Chris Little <chrislit at crosswire.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Matthew Talbert wrote:
> >>>
> >>> into the system.  Especially if what Matthew says is true and support
> >>> for those is already excluded based on using Visual Studio 2005, then
> >>> it's even more work for me to find a version of Studio that will
> >>> build, possibly buy it for a large sum of money if it's not one of the
> >>> two versions I already own, then learn how to build binaries that will
> >>> work on both 9x and NT families of Windows.
> >>
> >> I believe 2005 is OK (though I've never tested). AFAIK, the link I
> >> mentioned was for 2008.
> >
> > FWIW, the current free version of VS is Visual Studio 2008 Express, and
> it
> > would be nice to allow people to develop using a free compiler/IDE.
>
> My bad, I have been using the commercial version of 2008 -- we get
> both 2005 and 2008 through the University's student licensing
> agreement with Microsoft.  My build was done with 2008, which further
> reduces the chance of getting binaries to support 9x.
>
> --Greg
>
> >
> > If it's especially desirable, we could revive the VS6 projects for Sword,
> > etc., but I don't think I would make the effort to support 9x at this
> point.
>
> I know it wouldn't do me any good, since I don't have VS6 nor access
> to it that I'm aware of.  But if someone feels a die-hard desire to
> build with VS6...
>
> Ideally we'd get MinGW working, as many people have said, then we'd
> have a truly free development system, but the CLucene people would
> have to be consulted on that, or at least someone who feels like
> tracking down the bugs I've observed in those headers with the MinGW
> and other GCC-for-Windows compilers I've tried.
>
> --Greg
>
> >
> > --Chris
> >
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