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

[Christian Werner]

Thank you all! Good to know that Visual Studio Express won't do the job, 
that already saved me some trouble. I might think about switching to 
mingw before getting Visual Studio though...

Best regards,
Christian


Dave Partyka schrieb:
> Do you have Visual Studio? If so then the only thing you need is the 
> source:
>
> http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.2.zip
>
> Extract that and the open a 64-bit Visual Studio Command Prompt
>
> Start -> Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 -> Visual Studio 
> Tools -> Visual Studio 2008 x64
>
> Then cd into the directory where you extracted the source and run the 
> following
>
> configure <insert any options you might want>
> nmake
>
> I don't think namke install works on Windows.
>
> You should have a fully built Qt that you can build ParaView with.
>
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Christian Werner 
> <christian.werner at rwth-aachen.de 
> <mailto:christian.werner at rwth-aachen.de>> wrote:
>
>     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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