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Can't export Visual Studio project to Qt Creator

I want to export a visual studio project or the entire solution and I installed the Qt Visual Studio add-in but the menu actions are not clickable:

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What can I do to export the project or solution?

Solution

  • You are probably trying to convert a project that doesn't actually use Qt and there's a bug preventing you to do that. Here is a workaround for Visual Studio 2008:

    Open yourproject.vcproj file and after the line:

    RootNamespace="yourproject"

    Add a new attribute like this:

    Keyword="Qt4VSv1.0"

    And the workaround for Visual Studio 2010 is (haven't tried this one myself):

    1) Open yourproject.vcxproj with a text editor

    2) Locate the tag :

    3) Between and add the following line : Qt4VSv1.0

    4) Reload your project in VS2010 5) In solution explorer, righ-click on your project 6) In the menu, select "Convert project to Qt Add-in project"

    Revise your Qt Project Settings to include the modules you need and then you are ready to go.

    Taken from here:

    https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTVSADDINBUG-27