Qt Creator cannot find Visual Studio compiler (cl.exe) during build

Qt Creator 3.x cannot find cl.exe during build (some details can be found here http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/32276/#159744 )

Try to reproduce this issue on my environment (see the attached set.txt file, there is my environment before running Qt Creator):

• Qt 5.2.1
• Qt Creator 3.0.1
• Visual Studio 2010 Express
• Visual Studio 2012 Express
• Windows 8.1 64bit
• Windows SDK for Windows 8.1

1. Open Qt Creator
2. Check Options\Build & Run
a) Kits: you can see in the attached file (qtcreatorkits.PNG) that all studios are detected by Qt Creator very well
b) Qt: see the qtcreatorqt.PNG picture
c) Compilers: also everything is ok (qtcreatorcompiler.PNG)
d) Debuggers: qtcreatordebuggers.PNG

3. Create Qt Widgets Application (qtcreatorwidgetproject.PNG)
4. Open Projects for the just created project and select the MSVC 2010 32bit kit (qtcreatorwidgetprojectbuildsettings.PNG)
5. Watch the Build Environment (qtcreatorwidgetprojectbuildenv1.PNG and qtcreatorwidgetprojectbuildenv2.PNG) As you can see there is nothing related to Visual Studio
6. Try to build the project:

13:10:01: Running steps for project widgetproject...
13:10:01: Starting: "C:\Qt\5.2.1\msvc2010\bin\qmake.exe" F:\Tolik\Work\Qt\widgetproject\widgetproject.pro -r -spec win32-msvc2010 "CONFIG+=debug" "CONFIG+=declarative_debug" "CONFIG+=qml_debug"
13:10:02: The process "C:\Qt\5.2.1\msvc2010\bin\qmake.exe" exited normally.
13:10:02: Starting: "C:\Qt\Tools\QtCreator\bin\jom.exe"
C:\Qt\Tools\QtCreator\bin\jom.exe -f Makefile.Debug
C:\Qt\5.2.1\msvc2010\bin\uic.exe ..\widgetproject\mainwindow.ui -o ui_mainwindow.h
cl -c -nologo -Zm200 -Zc:wchar_t -Zi -MDd -GR -W3 -w34100 -w34189 -EHsc /Fddebug\widgetproject.pdb -DUNICODE -DWIN32 -DQT_QML_DEBUG -DQT_DECLARATIVE_DEBUG -DQT_WIDGETS_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_OPENGL_ES_2 -DQT_OPENGL_ES_2_ANGLE -I"C:\Qt\5.2.1\msvc2010\include" -I"C:\Qt\5.2.1\msvc2010\include\QtWidgets" -I"C:\Qt\5.2.1\msvc2010\include\QtGui" -I"C:\Qt\5.2.1\msvc2010\include\QtANGLE" -I"C:\Qt\5.2.1\msvc2010\include\QtCore" -I"debug" -I"." -I"." -I"C:\Qt\5.2.1\msvc2010\mkspecs\win32-msvc2010" -Fodebug\ @C:\Users\80BA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\main.obj.11328.0.jom
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C:\Qt\5.2.1\msvc2010\bin\moc.exe -DUNICODE -DWIN32 -DQT_QML_DEBUG -DQT_DECLARATIVE_DEBUG -DQT_WIDGETS_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_OPENGL_ES_2 -DQT_OPENGL_ES_2_ANGLE -D_MSC_VER=1600 -D_WIN32 -I"C:\Qt\5.2.1\msvc2010\include" -I"C:\Qt\5.2.1\msvc2010\include\QtWidgets" -I"C:\Qt\5.2.1\msvc2010\include\QtGui" -I"C:\Qt\5.2.1\msvc2010\include\QtANGLE" -I"C:\Qt\5.2.1\msvc2010\include\QtCore" -I"debug" -I"." -I"." -I"C:\Qt\5.2.1\msvc2010\mkspecs\win32-msvc2010" ..\widgetproject\mainwindow.h -o debug\moc_mainwindow.cpp
jom: F:\Tolik\Work\Qt\build-widgetproject-Desktop_Qt_5_2_1_MSVC2010_32bit-Debug\Makefile.Debug [debug\main.obj] Error 1
jom: F:\Tolik\Work\Qt\build-widgetproject-Desktop_Qt_5_2_1_MSVC2010_32bit-Debug\Makefile [debug] Error 2
13:10:03: The process "C:\Qt\Tools\QtCreator\bin\jom.exe" exited with code 2.
Error while building/deploying project widgetproject (kit: Desktop Qt 5.2.1 MSVC2010 32bit)
When executing step 'Make'
13:10:03: Elapsed time: 00:01.

The peace of the output is unreadable
"cl" ­Ґ пў«пҐвбп ў­гв७­Ґ© Ё«Ё ў­Ґи­Ґ©
Є®¬ ­¤®©, ЁбЇ®«­пҐ¬®© Їа®Ја ¬¬®© Ё«Ё Ї ЄҐв­л¬ д ©«®¬.

That means that the visual studio compiler ("cl"( is not found. This is another problem on Windows, Qt Creator cannot read system console encoding (in my case this is 866)

It would be good if you will find solution for this issue with because now I have start the Qt Creator via the hand made script:

@echo off
@call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86
start C:\Qt\Tools\QtCreator\bin\qtcreator.exe

and if I want to change on Visual Studio 2012 I have to exit from Qt Creator and run another script

@echo off
@call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86
start C:\Qt\Tools\QtCreator\bin\qtcreator.exe

It is not very usefull for development.

Thanks in advance.

BR,
Anatoly Shirokov