#50 QtCreator integration on Windows 7

[Carl Slater]

Greetings:

I would like to use the designer plugins with Qt creator version 3+, Qt 5.x.

In the recent past have successfully installed qwtdesigner-6.1.0-qt4.8-windows-msvc2010_32-x86 into QtCreator 2.7.2 (Qt 4.8.4).

Now even though QtCreator 3.1.2 is built with the msvc2010_32(Qt 5.3.1) the plugin fails to load. I assume this is because of the Qt version jump.

Is there a qwtdesigner-6.1.1-qt5.x-windows-msvc2010_32-x86 package I am missing? Or is this something I need to build?

If I need to build it then I need to:
    1) Build the libs I need to with my current compilers ( i.e. build 6.1.1 with MSVS 2012 64 bit, a requirement defined by other 3'rd party executable, in this case Unigraphics CAD )
    2) Build the QtCreator-plug in using MSVS 2010 32 bit

So now I maintain multiple "platform" versions of QWT.

Yes I know of your pain, supporting multiple platforms, it could end up 20% real work and 80% porting.

What is you guidance?

Regards
Carl

[Uwe Rathmann]

For the version you want to use in your application you can proceed like before.

For the designer plugin you need to have a proper installation of a version of Qt, where the creator has been built with. Then you need to build and install Qwt ( at a different directory ) for this version of Qt.

When this version of Qwt is for the designer plugin only I recommend to enable the "QwtDesignerSelfContained" flag in qwtconfig.pri ( = default setting on windows ). Not 100% sure, but if this flag is enabled it might be enough to run "make + make install" from inside the designer subfolder.

If your version of the creator has been installed from the official binary package, it would be cool if you would post the Qwt plugin to support@qwt-project.org, so that I can upload it for others having the same problem.