First starting with Qt, I urgently wanted to run it with the Visual Studio 2008 addin. I soon regretted this decision, as I wanted to compile a little (official) addon component. I ended up in digging through forums, since I’m not fit with console-based compilation (nmake, qmake, etc.), but in the end, I somehow managed to get it to compile.
And now, as I wanted to test it on some other computers (with no Visual Studio 2008 installed), I couldn’t manage to get the app up and running by half a day. Not even dependency-walker helped me out here…looks like VS links all kinds of not needed crap into the app (woo-hoo, what a rhyme! 
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So I took a short break, and remembered, that back then, in one of my University OGRE-based projects, we had the same problem – remaining unsolved (installing VS2008 redistributables didn’t help either). And then it came to me: “You want it cross platform anyway, so why not try out the Qt Creator?!“. And what should I say: installed it, compiled the addons in no time and now I can run my app on every PC…that’s sweet!