#Qt with visual studio 2018 install
This will compile and install Qt 32 bit libraries in your QTDIR\bin directory.
#Qt with visual studio 2018 64 Bit
Make a copy of 32 bit directory ( C:\Qt\4.8.5×86) for 64 bit version libraries and give it your favorite name (e.g.Extract is to your favorite location (e.g.Download Qt 4.8.5 libraries (VS2008) setup.Install Visual Studio 2008 Professional Addition.The following are the prerequisite installations for installing Qt with VS 2008. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition.Recently, I was able to compile Qt 4.8.5 64-bit version with Visual Studio 2008 and I am writing this post so that other beginners can save a lot of time. I went through many Qt forums, stack-overflow posts and other possible sources on the web, but I struggled a lot in doing so. So, I decided to use only one computer and develop everything using VS2008 for both 32 bit and 64 bit software. Initially, I was using two computers: one with VS2008 for 32 bit and other with VS2010 for 64-bit, but I did not like this practice. Since, Qt libraries come in only 32-bit with version 4.x for Visual Studio 2008, It is hard to get precompiled Qt 圆4 libraries. The customer target machine, sometimes, is 32 bit and sometimes it is 64 bit.
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Apart from this, I have few clients that ask for frequent changes in the software. There are different set of drivers for each software that are hardware dependent (32 bit drivers would not work on 64 bit machine).
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The applications I develop are for Camera Control software through serial port. Here, I would like to tell about my background with Qt development in brief (You can skip directly to the next section if you are in hurry). I have been developing Qt application since 2012. The following post is about compiling and installing Qt-4.8.5 libraries for both x86 and 圆4 architecture with Visual Studio 2008 (VS2008).