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Qt 5.5 or earlier

Getting started with MSVC 2015 (Windows 8 & 10)

The MSVC 2012 and 2013 compilers don't support C++1y well enough so QttpServer is limited to Windows 8+ with Visual Studio 2015.

Use Qt 5.6 for support with MSVC 2015 or continue below to build Qt from source.

The following guide below was developed and tested using Windows 10.

Prerequisites

  1. Visual Studio 2013 express (MSVC 2013 tool-chain) - C++ tools must be activated
  2. Visual Studio 2015 community (MSVC 2015 tool-chain
  3. Qt 5.x (Initially configure to match with MSVC 2013)
  4. git
  5. python 2.x
  6. strawberry perl - As a precaution

Building Qt 5.5 (or less) from source

  1. Building from zip file - I didn't bother with Qt's Git components - Stackoverflow always helps

  2. Extract to C:\qt-5.5.0 - beware, zip is massive so don't use default windows extractor. I used cygwin's unzip or jar to extract contents

  3. Create file c:\qt-5.5.0\qt5vars.cmd with the contents below:

    REM Set up \Microsoft Visual Studio 2013, where <arch> is \c amd64, \c x86, etc.
CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"
SET _ROOT=C:\qt-5.5.0
SET PATH=%_ROOT%\qtbase\bin;%_ROOT%\gnuwin32\bin;C:\Python27;C:\Strawberry\perl\bin;%PATH%
REM Uncomment the below line when using a git checkout of the source repository
REM SET PATH=%_ROOT%\qtrepotools\bin;%PATH%
SET QMAKESPEC=win32-msvc2015
SET _ROOT=

    I didn't specify an arch value in qt5vars.cmd since MSVC2015 is x86 anyway (Strange, I know). Also make sure to add python and perl to the PATH. Lastly and most importantly - be sure to update QMAKESPEC to win32-msvc2015

  4. Launch MSVC 2015 developer console, cd c:\qt-5.5.0\ and execute qt5vars.cmd to load environment variables

  5. In the same MSVC developer console, execute the configuration script. Below are configuration options that worked well on my machine against MSVC 2015:

    To include OpenSSL, download and extract to C:\openssl-0.9.8k_WIN32. Also add the lib and bin paths to the global %PATH% environment variable or equivalent. This is recommended in general and also helps support the qredis library. Tip: If you get stuck on qtwebsockets and don't intend on using it, you may also pass in "-skip qtwebsockets"

    configure.bat -platform win32-msvc2015 -debug -nomake examples -opensource -skip qtwebkit -skip qtwebchannel -skip qtquick1 -skip qtdeclarative -openssl-linked OPENSSL_LIBS="-lssleay32 -llibeay32" -I C:\openssl-0.9.8k_WIN32\include -L C:\openssl-0.9.8k_WIN32\lib -l Gdi32 -l User32

    If you really don't want OpenSSL support just run this:

    configure.bat -platform win32-msvc2015 -debug -nomake examples -opensource -skip qtwebkit -skip qtwebchannel -skip qtquick1 -skip qtdeclarative

  6. Build with nmake or jom

  7. Add the MSVC 2015 tool-chain to QtCreator:

    • Create an empty project and load it in QtCreator
    • Go to the Projects > Manage Kits.. > Build & Run > Qt Versions > Add... and select C:\qt-5.5.0\qtbase\bin\qmake and include somewhere in the label MSVC2015.
    • Then within Projects > Manage Kits.. > Build & Run > Kits > Add a new kit named "Qt 5.5.0 MSVC2015 32bit", choose the compiler that matches MSVC 2015 (Compiler v14), and lastly choose the Qt version that we recently created.

Finally building QttpServer

git clone https://github.com/supamii/QttpServer
cd QttpServer

Git submodules/dependencies automatically pulls in mongodb-drivers, boost, libuv, http-parser

git submodule update --init

Use Python to generate build files and compile to ./build/out folder

build.py

Open solution build/all.sln with VS2015 - or execute from the developer console

cd build
msbuild.exe all.sln /p:Configuration=Debug

Launch qttp.pro in QtCreator, build and...

ENJOY a beer - you've earned it!

As a side note, if you want to run a quick sample application you can add CONFIG+=SAMPLEAPP to the additional arguments section located in QtCreator under Projects > Build & Run > Build Steps > qmake > Additional arguments