Compiling Qt 4.8.x for Visual Studio 2012

Question

What steps should I take to compile Qt (version 4.8.x) for Visual Studio 2012?

I already carefully followed the instructions in the accepted answer of this question

Answer 1

Qt 4.8.3 with Visual Studio 2012 x64 (should also work with 4.8.2)

1. Install Strawberry Perl

2. Download Qt 4.8.3 source code from http://qt-project.org/downloads

3. Go to mkspecs\win32-msvc2010. Open qmake.conf and change:

   QMAKE_COMPILER_DEFINES  += _MSC_VER=1600 WIN32
   

   to:

   QMAKE_COMPILER_DEFINES  += _MSC_VER=1700 WIN32
   

4. Replace qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.3-x64\src\3rdparty\webkit\Source\JavaScriptCore\wtf\HashSet.h by this HashSet.h.

5. Start "VS2012 x64 Native Tools Command Prompt"

6. Switch to Qt 4.8.3 source directory (the directory that contains configure.exe)

7. Run:

   configure -mp -opensource -nomake demos -nomake examples -platform win32-msvc2010
   

8. Followed by:

   nmake
   

I programmed a tool called BlueGo which automatically downloads Qt 4.8.3 and builds it with VS2012 x64: http://bluego.vertexwahn.de (also works with VS2010 x64) (it just does what I described above automatically)