MSVC2017 is not recognized by QtCreator

Question

I installed VS 2017, and then installed Qt Creator 4.5.2 with the MSVC2017 plug-in.

I reboot the necessary times...

I launch QtCreator, the Qt kit for MSVC2017 is there but the compiler is not.

I add cl.exe manually, but it fails to compile as described here. I reinstalled Qt as suggested, but the problems persist.

How do I set MSVC2017 up to work properly with QtCreator?

PS: Other stack overflow questions did not hep either (this, this)

Answer 1

Please verify if you have installed msvc2017 32 / 64 bit and the same version and Qt libraries. If yes please check to have installed the Visual Studio build tools.