Before preparing this project on Windows, let's talk about the available choices when you develop a Qt application on a Windows host. The official Qt website provides multiple binary packages. We are mainly interested in the following:
- Qt for Windows 32-bit (MinGW)
- Qt for Windows 32-bit (VS 2013)
You may already be using one of these versions. The first one comes with a MinGW GCC compiler and the Qt framework. The second only provides the Qt framework and relies on the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler that will be installed with Visual Studio.
Both versions are fine when you want to create a common Qt application for Windows. However, for this chapter, we want to link our filter-plugin-designer project with OpenCV libraries. Qt Designer must also be able to dynamically load filter-plugin-designer, so we must use a consistent compiler version...
