Qt SDK 1.2.1 — cannot find nmake

Question

EDIT: It seems I can use the nmake from \Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\nmake.exe, but it would be nice (and much more user-friendly) if the "Qt 4.8.1 for Desktop" took care of this automatically.

I installed Qt SDK under Windows 7, 64 bit, using the online installer. I used the default installation options.

Now I am trying to build the Notepad app under \QtSDK\Examples\4.7\tutorials\gettingStarted\gsQt. I am using the supplied "Qt 4.8.1 for Desktop" command line.

For the first two steps of the build, qmake runs perfectly, but then nmake cannot be found in my installation. It's not a problem of setting a path -- I cannot find nmake.exe (or anything resembling nmake) anywhere in the QtSDK folder and subfolders.

If I use make or mingw32-make, I get the famous missing separator error:

c:/qtsdk/mingw/bin/mingw32-make -f Makefile.Debug
mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory `C:/Workspace/qt_notepad'
Makefile.Debug:59: *** missing separator.  Stop.
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/Workspace/qt_notepad'
mingw32-make: *** [debug] Error 2

Is this a buggy installation, or am I overlooking something?

Answer 1

nmake is release with MSVC toolchain. Hence, you can not find it in the QtSDK.

This is for you reference.