How to compile Qt 3.3.6 for use in VC2012? - qt

Question

I need to compile Qt 3.3.6 on my Win 7 PC to use it in combination with my MSVC2012 C++ compiler (MSVS 2012 Professional).
The simple reason is that I have a Qt 3.3.6 license and a lot of Qt 3.3.6 source code. So, a Qt upgrade is not an option. "Google" does not help...
Edited:16/11/10 1:40 pm
I already tried to compile it by starting a shell via VS2012 (Tools/VisualStudioCommandPrompt) and changing the cwd to the Qt directory containing the appropriate Makefile:
C:\Qt\3.3.6>bin\configure.exe -redo -spec win32-msvc2012
License file not found in C:/Users/mdew
Enterprise modules will not be available.
QMAKESPEC...................win32-msvc
Maketool....................nmake
[...list of all the installed programs...]
Configuration:
nocrosscompiler
dialogs
iconview
kernel
styles
tools
widgets
workspace
minimal-config
small-config
medium-config
large-config
full-config
release
thread
no-gif
zlib
jpeg
mng
png
bigcodecs
no-tablet
Debug symbols...............no
Thread support..............yes
Accessibility support.......no
Big Textcodecs..............yes
Tablet support..............no
STL support.................yes
Additional exports..........no
Exception support...........yes
RTTI support................yes
OpenGL support..............no
Image formats:
GIF support.............no
MNG support.............qt
JPEG support............qt
PNG support.............qt
Styles:
Windows.................yes
Windows XP..............no
Motif...................yes
Platinum................yes
MotifPlus...............yes
CDE.....................yes
SGI.....................yes
Sql Drivers:
ODBC....................no
MySQL...................no
OCI.....................no
PostgreSQL..............no
TDS.....................no
DB2.....................no
SQLite..................no
Interbase...............no
Sources are in..............C:\Qt\3.3.6
Install prefix..............C:\Qt\3.3.6
Headers installed to........C:\Qt\3.3.6\include
Libraries installed to......C:\Qt\3.3.6\lib
Plugins installed to........C:\Qt\3.3.6\plugins
Binaries installed to.......C:\Qt\3.3.6\bin
Docs installed to...........C:\Qt\3.3.6\doc
Data installed to...........C:\Qt\3.3.6
Translations installed to...C:\Qt\3.3.6\translations
Creating qmake...
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 11.00.61030.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
cd qmake
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x1'
Stop.
Building qmake failed, return code 2
So, my attempt to compile it via MSVS2012 failed. NMAKE gets in trouble.
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you in advance for any hint!
BR mdew

Answer 1

have tried to compile Qt 3.3.6 from source with MSVC2015 and I've success.
Download Qt 3 source from https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtwin/files/Unofficial%20Qtwin/qt-win-3.3.6-6/
you must have QTDIR environment variable
set QTDIR=<your path to Qt 3 folder>
make sure bin folder is in your PATH
set PATH=%QTDIR%\bin;%PATH%
replace PATH_MAX with MAX_PATH in following files:
src\tools\qdir_win.cpp
src\tools\qdir.cpp
comment or remove
#include <winable.h>
from
src\kernel\qaccessible_win.cpp
run
configure.bat --help
configure.exe and link_includes.exe will be generated in bin folder.
cd bin
configure.exe -no-dsp -v
if you get errors saing error C3688: invalid literal suffix 'QTDLL_POSTFIX'
delete all QTDLL_POSTFIX in this files:
qmake\generators\win32\borland_bmake.cpp
qmake\generators\win32\mingw_make.cpp
qmake\generators\win32\msvc_dsp.cpp
qmake\generators\win32\msvc_nmake.cpp
qmake\generators\win32\msvc_vcproj.cpp
and change
QString dllStem = stem + QTDLL_POSTFIX;
to
QString dllStem = stem;
in
qmake\generators\win32\winmakefile.cpp
rerun
configure.exe -no-dsp -v
it should now compile successfully