Qbs Manual | Building for Windows

Qbs 1.16.0

# Building for Windows

This topic describes the Qbs features specific to Windows.

Note: Qbs does not currently support building applications using .NET technologies and languages such as C#, F#, and Visual Basic. At this time we recommend that you use MSBuild and the tools shipped with the various implementations of the .NET platform.

## Windows Resources

The ico module contains rules and properties for building Windows icon (.ico) and cursor (.cur) files from a set of raw PNGs.

## Universal Windows Platform

Building applications for the Universal Windows Platform is currently only partially supported. Notably, support for building APPX packages is missing, but will be added in a future release.

Relevant properties include:

- cpp.windowsApiFamily
- cpp.windowsApiAdditionalPartitions
- cpp.requireAppContainer

See the cpp module for more information.

Note: Qbs does not (and will not) support building Windows Runtime applications targeting Windows 8 or Windows 8.1. We encourage users to instead build desktop applications for older versions of Windows, or migrate to Windows 10 and the Universal Windows Platform.

## Building Windows Installers

The following modules contain properties and rules for building Windows installers using a number of different technologies:

- innosetup - Inno Setup
- nsis - Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
- wix - Windows Installer XML Toolset