Qt Setup

We use Qt for much of our C++ development. This page describe how to set up Qt creator and the Maria Qt projects to build correctly and produce output that can be used from Visual Studio and our managed projects.

Download and setup

Download the newest Open Source version of Qt from

https://www.qt.io/download

Click through the Open Source information page and select the "Qt Online installer" option.

The installer will present a registration page, but you can safely skip this.

Select the correct Qt release (5.12 as of october 2019) with the following options:

• Include both 64- and 32-bit versions for MSVC 2017
• Do not include the MinGW build system.
• Include Sources
• Include Qt Debug information files

Under Developer and Designer Tools include:

• Qt Cretor CDB Debugger support
• Debuggging tools for Windows