Setting up Qt5 with Visual Studio 2015

Question

Searching Google for \'Qt5 - Windows 10 - VS 2015\' only brought up a blog post from April stating that support for VS 2015 is in the works (link).

The Qt5 downloads

Answer 1

Qt5.6.0 Beta includes a prebuilt image for Visual Studio 2015. However, the Qt Visual Studio add-in is no longer supported. There's an extension called Qt5Package you can install instead.

I found when I tried to add Qt 5.6.0 Beta in the extension I got the error "This Qt version uses an unsupported makefile generator (used: MSVC.NETMSBUILD, supported: MSVC.NET, MSBUILD)". The workaround is in C:\Qt\Qt5.6.0\5.6\msvc2015\mkspecs\common\msvc-desktop.conf Qt 5.6.0 splits all the version-specific changes into a separate file msvc-base.conf. If you copy the contents of this file and replace the line "include(msvc- base.conf)" in mscv-desktop.conf then Qt5Package recognises the Qt 5.6.0 Beta with no problems.

Note this still needs to be fixed in Qt5Package.