[Paraview] Which QT for 64-Bit Version for Windows

[Christian Werner]

Ah, great, thanks. What I just wondered: do I need the whole SDK or just 
the runtime environment? It just turned out that if you want to download 
the complete SDK you need to compile with mingw anyway...

Eric E. Monson schrieb:
> Hey Christian,
>
> I recently had to compile PV for Windows7 64-bit, and it didn't end up 
> being that bad. 
>
> I used Qt 4.6.2 open source (everywhere). I ran these commands from 
> the 64-bit Visual Studio Pro command prompt (I can't remember if I was 
> running as Administrator) in the Qt source directory:
>
> configure.exe -release -plugin-sql-sqlite
> nmake
> nmake install
>
> nmake took about 3 hours. (The sqlite plugin was for another project.)
>
> Not sure that the "nmake install" did anything. The last few messages 
> kept were saying something about not being able to do a cyclic copy.
>
> You can tell I'm not an expert in this, but I _did_ work just fine.
> -Eric
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Eric E Monson
> Duke Visualization Technology Group
>
>
> On Apr 23, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Christian Werner wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I am about to install the latest Paraview on a 64-Bit Windows System. 
>> When doing this on a 32-bit Windows I made a bad and painful 
>> experience when trying to setup everything starting with a 
>> self-compiled QT. I finally succeeded when I skipped that QT 
>> compiling part and used a QT binary instead that was compiled for 
>> VisualStudio (this is important). However, you cannot download a 
>> 64Bit binary of QT for Windows in general.
>>
>> I am shivering in fear when thinking about what will happen if I try 
>> to do this QT compiling on the 64-Bit System. I see my self doing 
>> this all over and over without success, as it happened before on the 
>> 32Bit system. So I wanted to be sure if that 64Bit version of QT is 
>> actually needed for 64Bit Paraview. Maybe the binary 32Bit suffices 
>> already?
>>
>> If not, does anyone have experience in this? I stopped trying after 
>> at least 3 differently parameterized compilations of QT turned out to 
>> not be what Paraview was looking for. If I need to, how would I 
>> compile QT to make it work with Paraview64 for Visual Studio?
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Christian
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