Details
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Bug
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Resolution: Done
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P2: Important
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Description
The information found on the download page (http://qt-project.org/downloads) is misleading.
"The edition you download here must match the OS you have your development system on."
It must not only match the operating system, it also has to match the compiler and its version. You cannot use MSVC 2008 with MSVC 2010, although both are Windows and both are MSVC; this is valid for MinGW as well, which is aggravated by the fact that Qt5 and Qt4 now use different versions of MinGW (4.7.2 vs. 4.4) which are incompatible.
"The source code is available as a zip (270 MB) or a tar.gz (219 MB) or ..."
There is no operating system restriction given, which implies that both can be used on all operarting systems. In fact they cannot due to different line endings. In addition, the tar.gz does not work on Windows, as configure.exe is missing.
"Qt libraries for Qt 5.0.0"_
These are not (just) the libraries, this is in fact the SDK, whereas "Qt libraries 4.8.4" are just the libraries, not the SDK.