title: How to install open source Qt libraries 5 binary version for Windows
body: <p>This question is specifically about <code>Qt libraries 5.0.0 for Windows (VS 2010 406 MB)</code> at <a href="http://qt-project.org/downloads">http://qt-project.org/downloads</a> (but I assume it will apply to future 5.x.x versions too), and installing that on a "clean" Windows workstation.</p>
  
  <p>What is needed to get it work? <em>I am after exact minimal set of download packages, meaning an ordered list of "fully qualified" download names, preferably with links to Microsoft downloads.</em></p>
  
  <p>The latest Qt Creator from same download page will be used as IDE, so Visual Studio is not required to be installed, and indeed it would be better if that can be avoided.</p>
  
  <p>My current understanding is, I will need to find VC++ Express, then find SP1 update for it, then find debugging package to get debugger backend for Qt Creator. Not sure if I need a Windows SDK package, or if I can replace VS with some version of Windows SDK. And no, the qt-project web pages do not answer this, the instructions there are pretty vague for this specific scenario (using the binary library download without the full non-free Visual Studio 2010).</p>