cl is not recognized as an internal or external command

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I am trying to compile a hello world program in Qt Using Qt Creator   I am getting  cl  is not recognized as an internal or external command   I am using Windows 7 and Both Vs 2008 and 2010 installed in it  When I use Mingw it is compiling fine but if use vs 2008 it is giving this error   After Setting Env Path        C  Program Files Microsoft Visual Studio 9 0 VC bin also it is showing the same error

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I had the same issue for a long time and I spent God knows how much on it until I accidentally figured what to do  This solution worked on windows 10  All you need to do is to add C  WINDOWS System32 to Path variable under User Variables in Environmental Variables    Note that if you add this to the system variables  it may also work  But  that didn t work for me

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For me  this was related to the scenario described by Smi  with the difference being that vcvarsall bat itself was failing due to an invalid path  This was cause by line-breaks within the path  which meant vcvarsall bat couldn t find the common tools directory for some reason

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I had the same problem   Try to make a bat-file to start the Qt Creator  Add something like this to the bat-file   call  C  Program Files Microsoft Visual Studio 9 0 VC bin vcvars32 bat     C  QTsdk qtcreator bin qtcreator     Now I can compile and get   jom 1 0 8 - empower your cores 11 10 08  The process  C  QTsdk qtcreator bin jom exe  exited normally

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I think cl isn t in your path  You need to add it there  The recommended way to do this is to launch a developer command prompt   Quoting the article Setting the Path and Environment Variables for Command-Line Builds      To open a Developer Command Prompt window         With the Windows 8 Start screen showing  type Visual Studio Tools  Notice that the search results change as you type  when Visual Studio   Tools appears  choose it       On earlier versions of Windows  choose Start  and then in the search box  type Visual Studio Tools  When Visual Studio Tools appears   in the search results  choose it    In the Visual Studio Tools folder  open the Developer Command Prompt for your version of Visual Studio   To run as administrator    open the shortcut menu for the Developer Command Prompt and choose Run   as Administrator        As the article notes  there are several different shortcuts for setting up different toolsets - you need to pick the suitable one   If you already have a plain Command Prompt window open  you can run the batch file vcvarsall bat with the appropriate argument to set up the environment variables  Quoting the same article      To run vcvarsall bat         At the command prompt  change to the Visual C   installation directory   The location depends on the system and the Visual Studio   installation  but a typical location is C  Program Files    x86  Microsoft Visual Studio version VC   For example  enter   cd   Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 12 0 VC     To configure this Command Prompt window for 32-bit x86 command-line builds  at the command prompt  enter   vcvarsall x86       From the article  the possible arguments are the following    x86  x86 32-bit native  x86 amd64  x64 on x86 cross  x86 arm  ARM on x86 cross  amd64  x64 64-bit native  amd64 x86  x86 on x64 cross  amd64 arm  ARM on x64 cross

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You can use Command prompt for VS 2010 and then select the path that your boost located  Use  bootstrap bat   you can successfully install it

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I had this problem because I forgot to select  Visual C    when I was installing Visual Studio    To add it  see  https   stackoverflow com a 31568246 1054322

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Make sure you restart your computer after you install the Build Tools   This was what was causing the error for me

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I had the same problem and I solved it by switching to MinGW from MSVC2010   Select the Project Tab from your left pane  Then select the  Target   From there change Qt version to MinGW instead of VC

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I sometimes get this problem when changing from Debug to Release or vice-versa  Closing and reopening QtCreator and building again solves the problem for me   Qt Creator 2 8 1  Qt 5 1 1  MSVC2010  32bit

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You will have to set environmental variables properly for each compiler  There are commands on your Program menu for each compiler that does that  while opening a command prompt   Another option is of course to use the IDE for building your application

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