- Install Visual Studio 2015
- This is the link to the Community version
- You can get the Enterprise version from DreamSpark here (enter your ENCS username and password)
- Download Qt (32 bit - latest version) --- This is the link to 5.7 installer --- NOTE: the file size is about 800MB, so be patient!
- Install Qt into the default location (C:\qt\Qt5.7.0\5.7\msvc2015). You don't need to enter this location; just accept the defaults
- Open Visual Studio, go to Tools/Extensions and Updates...
- Click on the Online section
- In the upper right of the dialog, search by typing qt (no need to press Enter)
- Install the Qt5Package plugin
- After Visual Studio has been restarted, open the menu item Qt5/Qt Options, then click Add
- Enter 5.7 for Version Name and the path should be the default install location (C:\Qt\Qt5.7.0\5.7\msvc2015)
- Clone the repository and you should be able to run the application inside Visual Studio
TIP: not required for this project, but if you want to create new Qt projects from scratch (using the templates installed by the Add-in), you need to create an environment variable with name QTDIR
, and the value being the default Qt installation directory (C:\Qt\Qt5.7.0\5.7\msvc2015)