Cross Platform QT Build

I'm doing a QT application for work. I'm a long time linux user and though the application's designer has made the program pretty much impossible to build off of Windows (and a bit of a challenge on Windows), I'm not quite ready to give up on my beloved command line.

I tried for a while to get things to build using GNU Make on Windows and that didn't go very well. Visual Studio 9 is installed (it's what I am supposed to be using), so I switched and used it's compiler.

It takes four changes:

• Makefile — In the Makefile use nmake if under cygwin.
• cl — Even if Visual Studio is on the path, the compiler, cl, doesn't run correctly. A batch file setting up the environment will fix it.
• link — The same problem with the compiler exists for the linker.
• PATH: The Windows SDK needs to be on the PATH. I do this with the following snippet in my bashrc: