Hi, I am developing an application in Qt Creator 4.8.1 for about a month. I was introduced to Qt about 2 months ago.

I am a Mechanical Engineer & dont know how to compile Qt Creator 5 for my requirements. I tried searching on the internet but the language is a pretty difficult to me as I am not used to things like MinGw, make file, etc. I have a faint idea that MinGw is a compiler for Windows equivalent to GCC on Ubuntu.

Download Qt 5.1.0 for Windows 32-bit (MinGW 4.8) Offline Installer torrent or any other torrent from Applications >Windows Direct download via magnet link.

I also tried searching how to install that, but there are so many sources & versions. I am totally confused. I would like somebody to please give a step by step guide in installing MinGw compiler & compiling Qt Creator 5 on it. My configs are: Windows 7, 64 bit. Dermatology 2-volume Set Bolognia Dermatology Second Edition on this page. I would also like to know the steps for Compiling on Ubuntu. I tried searching in this forum but couldnt get the required information.

PS: I am not a Computer Science guy, so please try to answer in pure English. Sorry for the stupidity but please try to understand my situation. Creator found in the Qt 5.0.1 packages should work with any Qt 4 or Qt 5 version out there in the wild. It is not really for Qt 5.0.1, it is just packaged together with it. Sorry for the nitpicking:) You need to compile creator for 64bit if you want to have a creator running in 64bit. That is pretty much the only reason to do that: Both the 32bit as well as the 64bit version of creator will happily build both 32bit as well as 64bit applications/libraries. Get a mingw compiler for 64bit (the one in the qt 5.0.1 packages is 32bit only AFAIK, but then I am not a windows user), compile Qt with it.

Then in Creator you need to go to tools>options>Build & Run and register the newly build Qt version as well as the 64bit mingw there. Finally copy the Kit you already have with 32bit mingw and a 32bit Qt, rename it and set the 64bit Qt version there as well as the 64bit mingw compiler. Thanks a lot for that answer. It was worth that wait after all. Regarding 'Finally copy the Kit you already have with 32bit mingw and a 32bit Qt, rename it and set the 64bit Qt version there as well as the 64bit mingw compiler.'