It is very bad that Panda3D does not support MinGW. In addition Panda3D can be installed for release only from pre-build SDK. If you want to have an ability to debug you should to build Panda3D from source. I do not use MSVC because it requires a lot of space on my laptop. If you want to use Panda3D from Qt Creator you can follow my step-by-step insctuction: [Tutorial] How to Set Up Panda3D in Qt Creator IDE on Windows 10 Please, make ability to use MinGW and make pre-build version for debugging and releasing.