Posted by LordOfBikes on Dec 10, 2014; 3:05pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Trying-to-be-a-developer-tp5710819p5710831.html

Hi Cla,

I recommend you to use the 32-Bit MinGW Qt 5.3.2 Setup. I don't know if the current LC sources work with Visual Studio or which VS versions are supported. Our Win8 64-Bit build server works with this MinGW version too. Even for the new Qt 5.4 release with MinGW 4.9.1 I can't say if it will work.

So to eliminate any issues caused by wrong tool chain, use the Qt 5.3.2 Setup with MinGW, which is known to work.

Using this version is the solution to your second question too. When you create a 32-Bit application it will run on both, 32- and 64-Bit systems. Using a 64-Bit tool chain you're limited to 64-Bit systems.

To work with Git in Windows I can recommend Tortoise Git to you, a very nice GUI for msysgit. You can use the 64-Bit download, it doesn't affect the tool chain.

Armin