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

Just creating a win32-msvc2012 directory with the changes below didn't work for me, there is more editing necessary. What exactly is necessary is described in the thread you already linked.

What I did, I went to win32-msvc2010.

There, open qmake.conf and change

QMAKE_COMPILER_DEFINES += _MSC_VER=1600 WIN32

to

QMAKE_COMPILER_DEFINES += _MSC_VER=1700 WIN32

Then I could configure using win32-msvc2010.

Also, I used these changes: http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/17771 (alzi's Version)