[QGIS-Developer] How to setup Visual Studio 2019 environment for QGIS C++ development?

[Ismail Sunni]

Hi Tomjan,

Perhaps you want to see this PR https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/38102 for
your question.

Best regards

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020, 23:44 <tomjan at gmx.com> wrote:

> I would be interested in learning to contribute to QGIS.
> My previous C++ experience is that about 20 years ago I did some (for a
> couple of years) Visual C++ programming with Microsoft's MFC as the GUI.
> Now I think I could refresh my C++ skills and also learn QT which I have
> never programmed with so far.
>
> However, I am not a Linux user, but always have been using Windows
> (currently Windows 10).
> It seems to be a complicated obstacle to get started running QGIS through
> Visual Studio 2019.
>
> I think it would be great with a tutorial (webpage or youtube video
> tutorial) about how to get started with an example showing how to do all
> necessary installations/configurations/setup until you can compile and run
> QGIS with a breakpoint in Visual Studio 2019.
>
> I have seen that the "INSTALL" file in the repository refers to Visual
> Studio 2015, but it seems awkward if it really would be necessary to use
> such an ancient version?
> Is nobody of the QGIS developers using Visual Studio 2019?
>
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