How to configure CDB in Qt Creator?

Question

The question here is the same as mine but the solution there is not working for me. I am using QtCreator 2.4.1 on Windows 7. When i try to debug a simple hello world app the

Answer 1

I got this error because the version of Visual Studio I had installed was much older than the version of Qt I had installed. I had Visual Studio 2015 installed, but my (much more recent) version of Qt was using Visual Studio 2019's compiler, which apparently isn't compatible with Visual Studio 2015's debugger.

The solution in my case was to uninstall and reinstall both Visual Studio and Qt to make sure I have the latest version of both. You can download the latest version of Visual Studio here (if you don't want to pay you should select "Free download" under "Community"), and you can download the latest version of Qt here.