#SAM MS VISUAL STUDIO HOW TO#

It can be quite large, I know there were some issues back in the day on having it on another disk drive, but nowadays you can put it anyway.ĭuring the setup process, it’s going to ask for what you want to install, it’s unlikely that you will use all the different components, so just all of it, so make sure to select MSVC 2019 – 64 Bit if your running Visual Studio 2019 and MSVC 2015 – 64 Bit if you’re using Visual Studio 2017. The first step is just to download Qt from its website at and get that installed on your computer.

#SAM MS VISUAL STUDIO HOW TO#

So lets breakdown how to get, setup, and build a Qt project with Visual Studio 2019. pro file, and all the steps around building and compiling.

Thankfully the Qt Company has created a Visual Studio extension that streamlines the whole process, from creating a new Qt project, importing an existing Qt. In my last blog, I looked at porting a Python PySide App project over to C++ and for that, I used QtCreator as my Integrated development environment (IDE) as it shipped with the Qt build and it worked out the box, setting its self up and allowing me to create a test widget project, build and run it within minutes.įor the last 10+ years, I have, like many many others, have used Microsoft Visual Studio as their goto IDE (for compiled code anyway) and whilst QtCreator certainly works and can do the job, it’s lacking a lot of very helpful features Visual Studio has and just makes when writing and debugging code, increasing productivity and throughput.īuilding Qt projects outside of QtCreator and its pipeline and toolchain used to be a real pain as the building of the code requires running the code through the Meta-Object Compiler (moc) which is required to generate the comper code for all the slots and signal systems, there is a very nice article about it by Qt.

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