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| author | Guy Harris <gharris@sonic.net> | 2022-10-13 22:40:01 -0700 |
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| committer | Guy Harris <gharris@sonic.net> | 2022-10-13 22:40:01 -0700 |
| commit | 8cca8074850690cee1bafc7734b02fb6c37d33e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d2e81e88bd53ac858e64e6b26252d1815a924ee | |
| parent | 790f9eeaa9d392db059f29eeef856ff392b106d3 (diff) | |
WSDG: tell users not to go for "Qt 6.4 for desktop development".
That will 1) install 6.4, which isn't the recommended LTS version and 2)
install headers and libraries for MinGW-w64, not for Visual Studio.
That means that if you're trying to build with Visual Studio, things
won't work.
| -rw-r--r-- | docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_quick_setup.adoc | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_quick_setup.adoc b/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_quick_setup.adoc index bdae71f2d8..15275786cb 100644 --- a/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_quick_setup.adoc +++ b/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_quick_setup.adoc @@ -297,13 +297,15 @@ Visual Studio 2019 is also used to create official Wireshark builds, so it will The main Wireshark application uses the Qt windowing toolkit. To install Qt, go to the https://www.qt.io/download[“Download Qt” page], select “Go open source”, download the *Qt Online Installer for Windows* from the Qt -Project and select, for the desired Qt version, a component that matches -your target system and compiler. For example, at the time of this -writing the Qt {qt6-lts-version} “msvc2019 64-bit” component is used to -build the official 64-bit packages. The “Qt Debug Information Files” -component contains PDB files which can be used for debugging. You can -deselect all of the other the components such as “Qt Charts” or “Android -xxxx” as they aren’t required. +Project, select “Custom installation“ on the “Installation Folder“ of +the installer screen (do _not_ select “Qt 6.4 for desktop development“) +and, on the “Select Components“ screen of the installer, select, for +the desired Qt version, a component that matches your target system and +compiler. For example, at the time of this writing the Qt {qt6-lts-version} +“msvc2019 64-bit” component is used to build the official 64-bit packages. +The “Qt Debug Information Files” component contains PDB files which can +be used for debugging. You can deselect all of the other the components +such as “Qt Charts” or “Android xxxx” as they aren’t required. Qt 6 needs the "Qt 5 Compatibility Module" to be installed as well. Additionally, the module "Qt Multimedia" may be installed, to support advanced controls for playing back streams in the |