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Pre-requisites:

• Perl environment: I picked strawberryperl
• jom
• download the source code

Add Jom to path if you prefer.

Open Visual Studio command prompt (32 or 64 bit) and/or in my case the Intel Parallel Studio one having the paths set for using the Intel Composer compiler. I'm not interested in building the examples nor demos when I build the libraries so I skip them with -nomake examples -nomake demos.

Go to source root directory and type

configure -nomake examples -nomake demos -opensource -platform win32-msvc2010
jom
jom clean

The first command configures the build. The second one builds and take some hours. The third one is optional and used for cleaning up all un-necessary intermediate build files. It cuts down the full build with demo and examples from 10GB resulting source folder to 2GB. I don't know yet without the examples.

If you'd like to compile with Intel compiler use this configuration line:

configure -nomake examples -nomake demos -opensource -platform win32-icc

Still with the Intel compiler; I had a pre-SP1 Parallel Studio 2011 installed and the build failed there. The build completed after update to SP1. I hope the newer versions won't give troubles.

I was a bit surprised to figure out that a Windows 64-bit version of Qt is not available for download, while it is for Linux and Mac...

Luckily for me I found a good Qt compilation tutorial. It's gona be building through the night, let see tomorrow =)

On my development PC I use VS2008 and 2010. I put the OpenGL headers in here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Include\gl

The latest OpenGL extension headers can be downloaded from the OpenGL registry:

• glext.h
• glxext.h
• wglext.h

I got that error when working on a simple Qt app and found it impossible to do debugging since I could not visualize any of the objects.

It turned out that the C++ Optimization was set to /O2. So if you change that back to Disabled, debugging will be all good again.

• Right click on your project, Properties
• Expand Configuration Properties, C/C++, Optimization
• For Optimization set "Disabled (/Od)"
• Apply
• Clean
• Rebuild

I should do some research to confirm but it appear not to be a problem related to Qt at all but more of a C++ compiler option mismatch.

To get IntelliSense and Qt debugging working properly on my development machine (x64) and VisualStudio 2010 I did the followinf steps.

• Installed Qt SDK version 1.2
• Installed Qt libraries 4.8.0 for Windows (VS 2010)
• Installed Qt Visual Studio Add-in
• Opened C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Packages\Debugger\autoexp.dat (path might change, you'll find the good one)
• Locate [Visualizer] in the file
• Add the following declarations above [Visualizer]

;Qt Integration
QObject =classname=<staticMetaObject.d.stringdata,s> superclassname=<staticMetaObject.d.superdata->d.stringdata,s>
QList<*>=size=<d->end,i>
QLinkedList<*>=size=<d->end,i>
QString=<d->data,su> size=<d->size,u>
QByteArray=<d->data,s> size=<d->size,u>
QUrl =<d->encodedOriginal.d->data,s>
QUrlInfo =<d->name.d->data,su>
QPoint =x=<xp> y=<yp>
QPointF =x=<xp> y=<yp>
QRect =x1=<x1> y1=<y1> x2=<x2> y2=<y2>
QRectF =x=<xp> y=<yp> w=<w> h=<h>
QSize =width=<wd> height=<ht>
QSizeF =width=<wd> height=<ht>
QMap<*> =size=<d->size>
QVector<*> =size=<d->size>
QHash<*> =size=<d->size>
QVarLengthArray<*> =size=<s> data=<ptr>
QFont =family=<d->request.family.d->data,su> size=<d->request.pointSize, f>
QDomNode =name=<impl->name.d->data,su> value=<impl->value.d->data,su>

• Then to stop IntelliSense winning you must add the following include directories to every project configurations:

$(ProjectDir)
$(QTDIR)\include;
$(QTDIR)\include\ActiveQt;
$(QTDIR)\include\Qt;
$(QTDIR)\include\Qt3Support;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtCore;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtDBus;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtDeclarative;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtDesigner;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtGui;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtHelp;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtMultimedia;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtNetwork;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtOpenGL;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtOpenVG;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtScript;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtScriptTools;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtSql;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtSvg;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtTest;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtUiTools;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtWebKit;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtXml;
$(QTDIR)\include\QtXmlPatterns;
$(QTDIR)\mkspecs\win32-msvc2010;

Setup:

• Win7 Pro x64
• VS2008
• VS2010
• CUDA 4.0
• VisualAssist

To enable VisualAssist to work with CUDA I did the following:

• Close all VisualStudio instances
• Copy C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Assist X\AutoText\Latest\Cpp.tpl to C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Assist X\AutoText\Latest\Cu.tpl
• Run VisualStudio once and close
• From regedit, open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Whole Tomato\Visual Assist X\VANet9 (VS2008) and/or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Whole Tomato\Visual Assist X\VANet10 (VS2010)
• Add ".cu;" to the ExtSource key
• Add ".cuh;" to the ExtHeader key

Start VS again and you should be good to go!

Source: Cuda Forum

A small syntax reminder for the copy post-build command I like to add on certain DLL projects.

Copy $(OutDir)\$(TargetName).lib %TARGET_DIR%
Copy $(OutDir)\$(TargetName).dll %TARGET_DIR%