Building Qt5 with Visual Studio 2012 / Visual Studio 2013, and integrating with the IDE

Question

How do you get Qt5 to download and integrate with Visual Studio 2012? What are some of the problems you will encounter, and how do you solve those problems?

Answer 1

compile Qt 5.5 with visual studio 2015:

1- modefier configure.bat in qtbase directory so it can generate configure.exe (just the first 18 lines)

  @echo off
set QTSRC=%~dp0
set QTDIR=%CD%
rem if not exist %QTSRC%.gitignore goto sconf
echo Please wait while bootstrapping configure ...

for %%C in (cl.exe icl.exe g++.exe perl.exe) do set %%C=%%~$PATH:C

rem if "%perl.exe%" == "" (
rem    echo Perl not found in PATH. Aborting. >&2
rem    exit /b 1
rem )
if not exist mkspecs (
    md mkspecs
    if errorlevel 1 goto exit
)
rem perl %QTSRC%bin\syncqt.pl -minimal -module QtCore -outdir "%QTDIR%" %QTSRC%
rem if errorlevel 1 goto exit

2- configure -opensource -confirm-license -mp -nomake examples -nomake tests -release -c++11 -no-warnings-are-errors -platform win32-msvc2015 -no-ltcg

3- nmake