How to compile Qt 3.3.6 for use in VC2012?

Question

I need to compile Qt 3.3.6 on my Win 7 PC to use it in combination with my MSVC2012 C++ compiler (MSVS 2012 Professional).

The simple reason is that I have a Qt 3.3.6 license and a lot of Qt 3.3.6 source code. So, a Qt upgrade is not an option. "Google" does not help...

Edited:16/11/10 1:40 pm

I already tried to compile it by starting a shell via VS2012 (Tools/VisualStudioCommandPrompt) and changing the cwd to the Qt directory containing the appropriate Makefile:

C:\Qt\3.3.6>bin\configure.exe -redo -spec win32-msvc2012
License file not found in C:/Users/mdew
Enterprise modules will not be available.

QMAKESPEC...................win32-msvc
Maketool....................nmake

[...list of all the installed programs...]

Configuration:
    nocrosscompiler
    dialogs
    iconview
    kernel
    styles
    tools
    widgets
    workspace
    minimal-config
    small-config
    medium-config
    large-config
    full-config
    release
    thread
    no-gif
    zlib
    jpeg
    mng
    png
    bigcodecs
    no-tablet
Debug symbols...............no
Thread support..............yes

Accessibility support.......no
Big Textcodecs..............yes
Tablet support..............no
STL support.................yes
Additional exports..........no
Exception support...........yes
RTTI support................yes
OpenGL support..............no

Image formats:
    GIF support.............no
    MNG support.............qt
    JPEG support............qt
    PNG support.............qt

Styles:
    Windows.................yes
    Windows XP..............no
    Motif...................yes
    Platinum................yes
    MotifPlus...............yes
    CDE.....................yes
    SGI.....................yes

Sql Drivers:
    ODBC....................no
    MySQL...................no
    OCI.....................no
    PostgreSQL..............no
    TDS.....................no
    DB2.....................no
    SQLite..................no
    Interbase...............no

Sources are in..............C:\Qt\3.3.6
Install prefix..............C:\Qt\3.3.6
Headers installed to........C:\Qt\3.3.6\include
Libraries installed to......C:\Qt\3.3.6\lib
Plugins installed to........C:\Qt\3.3.6\plugins
Binaries installed to.......C:\Qt\3.3.6\bin
Docs installed to...........C:\Qt\3.3.6\doc
Data installed to...........C:\Qt\3.3.6
Translations installed to...C:\Qt\3.3.6\translations


Creating qmake...

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 11.00.61030.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        cd qmake
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x1'
Stop.
Building qmake failed, return code 2

So, my attempt to compile it via MSVS2012 failed. NMAKE gets in trouble.

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you in advance for any hint!

BR mdew

What problem do you get with compiling? Btw, Qt3 is not supported by Qt team, so, possible, you will need a lot of fixed in Qt source to make it compilable. — Dmitry Sazonov, Nov 10 '16 at 12:33
@Dimitry: Good point. I already tried to compile Qt 3.3.6, because I've the source. See my edited request above. I know, the license file is still missing. I still need to copy it. I'm afraid, this won't be the reason for the error. — mdew, Nov 10 '16 at 13:16
So, did you try to read your output? What is `cd qmake`? Do you really have this dir? Did you set environment correctly? — Dmitry Sazonov, Nov 10 '16 at 13:20
@Dimitry: You are right. My source text is not complete. THAT is the problem: qmake is not contained. I will get the complete source text and try it again. Thank you very much. You help was very important! I will report soon... — mdew, Nov 10 '16 at 13:59
@Dimitri: One remark: I needed to start the compiling session inside a VS2012 Command Prompt with "nmake clean"! Then "configure.exe -redo -spec win32-msvc2012", and finally "nmake". — mdew, Nov 17 '16 at 14:46

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 10 '16 at 17:24

have tried to compile Qt 3.3.6 from source with MSVC2015 and I've success.

Download Qt 3 source from https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtwin/files/Unofficial%20Qtwin/qt-win-3.3.6-6/

you must have QTDIR environment variable

set QTDIR=<your path to Qt 3 folder>

make sure bin folder is in your PATH

set PATH=%QTDIR%\bin;%PATH%

replace PATH_MAX with MAX_PATH in following files:

src\tools\qdir_win.cpp
src\tools\qdir.cpp

comment or remove

#include <winable.h>

from

src\kernel\qaccessible_win.cpp

run

configure.bat --help

configure.exe and link_includes.exe will be generated in bin folder.

cd bin
configure.exe -no-dsp -v

if you get errors saing error C3688: invalid literal suffix 'QTDLL_POSTFIX'

delete all QTDLL_POSTFIX in this files:

qmake\generators\win32\borland_bmake.cpp
qmake\generators\win32\mingw_make.cpp
qmake\generators\win32\msvc_dsp.cpp
qmake\generators\win32\msvc_nmake.cpp
qmake\generators\win32\msvc_vcproj.cpp

and change

QString dllStem = stem + QTDLL_POSTFIX;

to

QString dllStem = stem;

in

qmake\generators\win32\winmakefile.cpp

rerun

configure.exe -no-dsp -v

it should now compile successfully

How to compile Qt 3.3.6 for use in VC2012?

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