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Sam
Sam

Reputation: 59

Use Intel C++ Compiler (Composer) 2011 with Qt without Visual Studio on Windows

Why does the intel compiler on Windows keep nagging about visual studio? I don't have visual studio and I don't want it!!! is that the only option I have??? I'm a Qt programmer who've been using MinGW as a compiler, and never needed Visual Studio. On Linux, the intel compiler is totally independent and doesn't need any other compilers to work. Could anyone please explain what's the deal with this Intel Compiler and why it's not standalone?

Please tell me what I should do to get it to work with Qt without Visual Studio.

Edit: To be clear about the problem, when I try to use icl.exe to compile some file, it gives me this error:

icl: error #10114: Microsoft Visual C++ not found in path

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1771

Answers (1)

David Schwartz
David Schwartz

Reputation: 182733

On no platform is the Intel C/C++ compiler standalone. It requires tools of various kinds on all platforms.

The official documentation actually does list the entire gcc toolchain as a system requirement on Linux. Additional libraries are required as well.

It just so happens that on Windows, these tools are bundled with Visual Studio. The free version is sufficient.

Upvotes: 0

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