What a bad surprise when, installing my new Windows 8 box, I found that I couldn’t compile any of my Qt Projects! I couldn’t even running an instance of Qt Creator 2.6.2, because when it tries to open the project file, it hangs with that stupid white window… “Qt Creator is not responding…”
Well, I tried the following: Installing a different MinGW version, Installing the new Qt5.0.1 library, modifying the projects files… nothing worked, though removing the QT+=xxx and the TARGET=yyy or the TEMPLATE=zzz lines makes sometime starting it.
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