Windows 8 Pro make.exe crashes when deploying to Symbian device

Hello everyone,

I have started to familiarize myself with Qt using Windows 7 64-bit edition earlier. Now I recently updated my Windows to version 8 Pro (also 64-bit).

After a fresh installation of Qt I tried to deploy test project to my E7-00 receiving this error:

22:41:14: Running build steps for project Testproject…
22:41:14: Configuration unchanged, skipping qmake step.
22:41:14: Starting: “D:\QtSDK\Symbian\SDKs\Symbian3Qt474\epoc32\tools\make.exe” release-gcce -w
qtcreator_ctrlc_stub: Command line failed: D:/QtSDK/Symbian/SDKs/Symbian3Qt474/epoc32/tools/make.exe release-gcce -w
22:41:14: The process “D:\QtSDK\Symbian\SDKs\Symbian3Qt474\epoc32\tools\make.exe” crashed.
Error while building project Testproject (target: Symbian Device)
When executing build step ‘Make’

Anyone have some ideas? Simulator works fine and I get my Testproject to run with it, it’s only the Symbian Device deploying.

I figured out this already. If you want to use Qt in Windows 8 you have to: 1) Set UAC "off" 2) From preferences of your Qt exe set "Windows XP SP3" for compatibility status. I have Windows in finnish language so I do not know the exact terms, but you will get the picture hopefully.

This tread is gonna be useful for future window 8 pc user