How to install Qt Creator on Windows 7? Last working version?

garlicbox

Hello Qt community,

I'm trying to set up Qt Creator on Windows 7 (64-bit) for legacy project support. From my research, I understand that:

Qt 5.15.2 is the last version with official Windows 7 support

Newer Qt versions require Windows 10+

What's your recommended toolchain combination?

Where can I download Qt Creator for windows 7 ?

UmarAli

I think you have to use VS Code instead of Qt Creator.

garlicbox

@UmarAli said in How to install Qt Creator on Windows 7? Last working version?:

I think you have to use VS Code instead of Qt Creator.

Why ?
Is there a manual for using VS?

I need to work with the form somehow. It's convenient.

UmarAli

If you prefer using forms then Qt Creator is best for you. I recommend you to upgrade your windows from 7 to 10 or 11 . Microsoft ended the support for windows 7.

Christian Ehrlicher

You can look which QtCreator version was built with Qt5 and use this: https://download.qt.io/archive/qtcreator/

aha_1980

@garlicbox I think Creator 4.14 still works in Windows 7. You might try that from the link @Christian-Ehrlicher gave you.

Regards

SimonSchroeder

You also might be able to use a newer computer with the current version of Qt Creator to compile for a Windows 7 target. I am not sure how easy it is to get an old version of Visual Studio with the old Win7 dev toolkit, though.

If you just install Qt (and not QtCreator) you'll already get the correct version of qmake (supposing you are using a qmake-based project instead of CMake). qmake can be called to generate a Visual Studio project. You might still need Qt Creator/Qt Designer if you have .ui files. Maybe you just edit those on a newer machine.

garlicbox

I managed to rebuild the Qt 5.15.2 library using the Visual Studio 2017 compiler.
but I want to use Qt creator.
I uploaded it here.
https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/qt/archive/qtcreator/4.11/4.11.1/installer_source/windows_msvc2017_x64/

I managed to run it.
Question. Can it be configured? And how to do it?

jsulm

@garlicbox said in How to install Qt Creator on Windows 7? Last working version?:

Can it be configured? And how to do it?

Yes.
Go to the Kit configuration. Add your custom Qt build there. If needed also the VS2017 compiler (should have been auto-detected by QtCreator). And then create a Kit with your Qt version and the compiler.