How to use Qt5 and Qt Creator 2.6.1 with compiler from VS 2012?

Question

The official downloads only include Qt libraries 5.0.0 for VS 2010 now. I tried them in VS 2012 Express but got an error message as \"error: LNK2038: mismatch detected for \'_MS

Answer 1

You are right - if you want to use MS VC 2012 compiler, you have to compile QT5 libraries manually. The tutorial can be found on http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building_Qt_5_from_Git. Another option is to install VS 2010 and use it until Digia will make pre-compiled VC 2012 and MinGW libraries. If you use QT Creator as your primary IDE, it should be enough to install VC 2010 Express only.