any Visual Studio mavens here...?

[mzimmers]

...so, I've been developing an app on the Mac platform, and very recently tried moving it over to Windows XP. (The IDE is Qt, BTW.) I built using MinGW and it works fine. I try to build using MVSC, and it pukes on its shoes. Here's the preliminary error messages I get:

06:39:48: Configuration unchanged, skipping qmake step.
06:39:48: Starting: "C:\QtSDK\QtCreator\bin\jom.exe"
C:\QtSDK\QtCreator\bin\jom.exe -nologo -j 2 -f Makefile.Debug
cl -c -nologo -Zm200 -Zc:wchar_t- -Zi -MDd -GR -EHsc -W3 -w34100 -w34189 -DUNICODE -DWIN32 -DQT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT -I"..\simulator" -I"..\simulator\headers" -I"." -I"c:\QtSDK\Desktop\Qt\4.8.0\msvc2010\mkspecs\win32-msvc2010" -Fodebug\ @C:\DOCUME~1\Putin\LOCALS~1\Temp\clock.obj.1364.109.jom
cl -c -nologo -Zm200 -Zc:wchar_t- -Zi -MDd -GR -EHsc -W3 -w34100 -w34189 -DUNICODE -DWIN32 -DQT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT -I"..\simulator" -I"..\simulator\headers" -I"." -I"c:\QtSDK\Desktop\Qt\4.8.0\msvc2010\mkspecs\win32-msvc2010" -Fodebug\ @C:\DOCUME~1\Putin\LOCALS~1\Temp\demod.obj.1364.156.jom
jom 1.0.6 - empower your cores
'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
command failed with exit code 1
'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
command failed with exit code 1
command failed with exit code 2
06:39:49: The process "C:\QtSDK\QtCreator\bin\jom.exe" exited with code 2.
Error while building project HittiteModem (target: Desktop)
When executing build step 'Make'

I don't know what all those compile options are; if someone can help me decode this, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

[webJose]

That seems to be a File Not Found on cl.exe, the compiler. I have never had issues with that, so I'd suggest a full uninstall/install of Visual Studio.

[mzimmers]

Interesting, because Qt found the tool chain, so it must be there. Could it be the lack of an environment variable (or whatever they're called on Windows)?

[roberts]

You probably need to set your PATH variable to include the binary directory for VC++.

Click click on My Computer and select properties.
Click on Advanced System Settings.
Click the Advanced tab.
Near the bottom is a button labeled "Environment Variables."
See if you have a path variable. Whether you have it or not, you'll need to set up path to include your VC++ bin directory.

As for the command line options:

-I is an additional include directory.
-D is a command line define, like typing "#define USE_FLOATS" within a source file.
-c is simply telling it to compile without linking.
-EHsc says to enable C++ exceptions
-MDd specifies to use DLL runtime libs at link time
-Zc:wchar_t says to treat wchar_t as a built-in type.
-GR adds code for checking C++ object types at runtime
-W3 specifies level 3 warnings.

Not sure what the -w option is.

[z05DSL3A]

There is usually a batch file to run that sets the build environment. Look in the start menu (visual studio) for someone like vars32.bat (not in front of a Windows PC just now).

[roberts]

I have VC++ express 10, and it has a command window in its start menu for compiling on the command line. It sets up the path variable for you. I didn't know that since I don't do command line compiling anymore.

[mzimmers]

Thanks for the replies, guys. I changed my path variable; it now seems to point to the right place. And that got rid of the compiler error I cited above, but now I'm getting this:

C:\QtSDK\QtCreator\bin\jom.exe -nologo -j 2 -f Makefile.Debug
cl -c -nologo -Zm200 -Zc:wchar_t- -Zi -MDd -GR -EHsc -W3 -w34100 -w34189 -DUNICODE -DWIN32 -DQT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT -I"..\simulator" -I"..\simulator\headers" -I"." -I"c:\QtSDK\Desktop\Qt\4.8.0\msvc2010\mkspecs\win32-msvc2010" -Fodebug\ @C:\DOCUME~1\Putin\LOCALS~1\Temp\clock.obj.3728.109.jom
cl -c -nologo -Zm200 -Zc:wchar_t- -Zi -MDd -GR -EHsc -W3 -w34100 -w34189 -DUNICODE -DWIN32 -DQT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT -I"..\simulator" -I"..\simulator\headers" -I"." -I"c:\QtSDK\Desktop\Qt\4.8.0\msvc2010\mkspecs\win32-msvc2010" -Fodebug\ @C:\DOCUME~1\Putin\LOCALS~1\Temp\demod.obj.3728.125.jom
jom 1.0.6 - empower your cores
command failed with exit code 2
command failed with exit code 2
command failed with exit code 2
command failed with exit code 2
command failed with exit code 2
10:48:40: The process "C:\QtSDK\QtCreator\bin\jom.exe" exited with code 2.
Error while building project HittiteModem (target: Desktop)
When executing build step 'Make'

Does anyone know what this jom.exe is? Is that something unique to the Qt environment?

EDIT: it appears that this is in the realm of Qt now. I'll consider this thread solved.