How to compile a library for Qt on Windows?

Question

Programming

Trying to compile this library: https://github.com/nitroshare/qhttpengine on Windows.
I do everything as it is written in the Readme - I run cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" ..it and get a bunch of fatal errors:

The C compiler "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/bin/cl.exe" is not able to compile a simple test program.

Next come nmake errors -

NMAKE: fatal error u1077 finished with code "0xffffff" и "0x2".

The path to the visual studio bin folder is in Path, cmake is also in Path.
What can be wrong? This happens not only with this library, I suspect I'm doing something wrong...

Answer 1

Just do not write the path to the bin folder. You need to run a studio *.bat file that sets up all studio environment variables.
0) Run the *.bat-file of the studio with the platform you need (x86/amd64).
1) Run *.bat-file Qt, which sets up variables for Qt.
2) Run after that cmake-gui. Better choose "Nmake Makefiles" so that you don't start the studio later.
3) Carry out assembly.
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The screenshot shows the paths associated with Qt. And so, they were defined automatically only from that, environment variables were assigned.
UPD: build succeeded. Just checked. Even nmake installworks.

Answer 2

Better collect MinGW.