1. If you have the commercial edition of Qt, copy the license file
from your account on dist.trolltech.com into your home directory
(this may be known as the userprofile environment variable) and
rename it to .qt-license. For example on Windows 2000,
%USERPROFILE% should be something like C:\Documents and
Settings\username
For the open source version you do not need a license file.
2. Uncompress the files into the directory you want Qt installed,
e.g. C:\Qt\4.3.2.
NOTE: The install path must not contain any spaces.
3. Environment variables
In order to build and use Qt, the PATH environment variable needs
to be extended:
PATH - to locate qmake, moc and other Qt tools
This is done by adding c:\Qt\4.3.2\bin to the PATH variable.
For newer versions of Windows, PATH can be extended through
"Control Panel->System->Advanced->Environment variables" and for
older versions by editing c:\autoexec.bat.
4. Building
To configure the Qt library for your machine type:
C:
cd \Qt\4.3.2
configure
Type "configure -help" to get a list of all available options.
If you are using the "-direct3d" option, make sure that you have
the Direct3D SDK installed, and that you have run the
%DXSDK_DIR%\Utilities\Bin\dx_setenv.cmd command, before attempting
to run configure.
The actual commands needed to build Qt depends on your development
system. For Microsoft Visual Studio to create the library and
compile all the demos, examples, tools and tutorials type:
nmake
If you need to reconfigure and rebuild Qt from the same location,
ensure that all traces of the previous configuration are removed
by entering the build directory and typing
nmake confclean
before running the configure script again.
5. That's all. Qt is now installed.
If you are new to Qt, we suggest that you take a look at the demos
and examples to see Qt in action. Run the Qt Examples and Demos
either by typing 'qtdemo' on the command line or through the
desktop's Start menu.
