Setting up qtcreator with msys2 on windub

msys2.md

• Windows
  • 32bits target
  • 64bits target
  • Setting up QtCreator

Windows

Common steps :

• Install MSYS2-x86_64
• At the end of the installation, run it (either automatically or manually)
• Execute the command pacman -Syu to update core packages, then close the terminal when prompted
• Run it again, and execute pacman -Su to update some more packages I will refer to the MSYS2 installation path as MSYS2_PATH. By default it is c:/msys64 on 64-bits systems.

32bits target (win)

Run MSYS2 MinGW 32-bit

• cd (or pushd) to the directory you cloned this repo to
• Execute pacman --needed -S mingw-w64-i686-toolchain mingw-w64-i686-qwt-qt5 (pacman will prompt about what packages to install, just press [enter])
• Done!

To use this toolchain, point CMake to (MSYS2_PATH)/mingw32 (not needed with QtCreator, see instructions below)

64bits target (win)

Run MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit

• cd (or pushd) to the directory you cloned this repo to
• Execute pacman --needed -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-qwt-qt5 (pacman will prompt about what packages to install, just press [enter])
• Done!

To use this toolchain, point CMake to (MSYS2_PATH)/mingw64 (not needed with QtCreator, see instructions below)

Setting up QtCreator

1. Open the "Build & Run" panel in QtCreator options
2. In the "Qt Versions" tab, add a new one pointing to (MSYS2_PATH)/mingw(32/64)/bin/qmake.exe (usually C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\qmake.exe)
3. In the "Compilers" tab, add a new one for MinGW C and C++, respectively pointing to (MSYS2_PATH)/mingw(32/64)/bin/gcc.exe and .../g++.exe
4. In the "Debuggers" tab, add a new one pointing to (MSYS2_PATH)/mingw(32/64)/bin/gdb.exe
5. In the "CMake" tab, add a new one pointing to (MSYS2_PATH)/mingw(32/64)/bin/cmake.exe
6. In the "Kits" tab, add a new one where you use the compilers, debugger, qt and cmake defined above
7. Select "CodeBlocks - Ninja" as CMake Generator

Great, thanks.

Glad to see something I wrote as a student intern actually helps people 😄

Thank you. I switched recently from VS Code to QtCreator and I forgot some basics. Even it could seem obvious, it's always useful to get such tutorial :-)
NB: After creating the kit, to set a build, you need to Enable the kit for the project..