I am an amateur C++ developer using a Win 7 laptop and willing to migrate to Qt. I thought I should take advantage of my 64 bits configuration and consequently installed what I supposed to be a 64 bit version : Qt Creator 2.7.2 based on Qt 5.1.0.
Installation was straightforward (using qt-windows-opensource-5.1.0-msvc2012_opengl-x86_64-offline.exe); I accepting all default options) Launching Qt Creator, I can see in the “About…” dialog that this Qt version is “(32 bit)”, strange but OK, so far so good. Until I tried to compile an example: no compiler detected, gasp!
In fact, I got a MinGW32 that works fine, but it is ignored by Win 7 as it came embedded with the Dev-Cpp installation (actually: wxDev-C++) and not as stand-alone.
Now, I would like to have the bin’s for MinGW64 and have it recognized by Qt Creator. Simple enough? I must be dumb; I spend more than three hours downloading and extracting all sorts of packages from SourceForge and other sites and simply could not find the right one that would deploy on my laptop! (I only thing I could get is source & doc packages, which I don’t know what to do with). I feel comforted by so many fellows complaining for years on several forums with same kind of problems; unfortunately none of the solutions proposed to them worked with me… The FAQ won’t help either.
May be I am overly ambitious with 64 bit stuff; I could simply copy and paste my MingW32 folder directly in the folder “Program files (X86)”. Would it be recognized by Win7 and Qt that way? Should I re-install a 32 bit version of Qt Creator instead of my current version? (I understand that, anyway, Qt Creator does not install any compiler but expects compilers to be available separately under Win7). Thanks for any suggestion!
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