Qt 4.8.2 under Visual Studio: unresolved external symbol

sonocu

Hello,

please redirect me if my question does not belong here and please ask if I missed any important information. (I'm new here.)
I spend many days to overcome the problem of "unresolved external symbols" I get.
As I'm a Newbie you probably have some helpful comments on where I can trace my errors to. I'm totally lost and spend days on google to solve these issues.

Details:
I'm using Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010 (this may be part of the problem) and Qt 4.8.2 with C++.
Qt has been build on my machine using nmake and Visual Studio includes the addin for Qt, already.

I try to compile an old project (still in use of Debug-Mode), which was originally build in qt3 under visual studio 2005, so I take use of Qt3Support to create a .exe-file.
Also this project implies the use of opengl, which might also be the reason for the errors.

What I did:

QTDIR is included in the enviroment variable
preprocessor variables were added:
@
WIN32
_DEBUG
_WINDOWS
UNICODE
QT_CORE_LIB
QT_GUI_LIB
QT_DLL
QT_THREAD_SUPPORT
QT3_SUPPORT@
libs added to linker:
@qtmaind.lib
QtCored4.lib
QtGuid4.lib
QtOpenGLd4.lib
opengl32.lib
glu32.lib
QtNetworkd4.lib
Qt3Supportd4.lib
@
as additional include directories accordingly:
$(QTDIR)\include\Debug
$(QTDIR)\include

Though the build is not successful, I keep receiving six errors:
@
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: __thiscall QGLWidget::QGLWidget(class QWidget
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: int __thiscall QMouseEvent::state(void)const "
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: void __thiscall QObject::setName(char const
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: __thiscall QWidget::QWidget(class QWidget
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: __int64 __thiscall QIODevice::readBlock(char
moc_GUI.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: __int64 __thiscall
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: void __thiscall QWidget::setCaption(
@

So it seems that some dll-fils are not imported (correctly?). I read they would be build of the libs, so I assumed that everything should be available.
Other suggestions I read about:
(1) Mixed up Debug and Release libraries (does not seem to be the case here, because they all have the "d" in their name, correct?)
(2) moc is not executed correctly (cannot be due to the observation that new moc files are gerenated every time I try to biuld.)
(3) some missing library (?)
(4) something went wrong during build of Qt on my machine (I don't know how to test it)
(5) opengl is not installed properly (I assume the problem to lie in qt atm)

Make one person happy today by answering and give me a hint.
Remarks on how to build Qt Applications (GUI), other than using Visual Studio, are welcome!

sierdzio

If you are a newbie, as you claim, combining OpenGL, Qt3 support, and MSVC is a sure way to problems :)

If possible, I would suggest to:

install QtSDK with mingw
try to compile your project there

But I have never had these particular errors, so I might be giving ill advice here :)

franku

Did you mix Qt Libs built with MinGW and VS? You get an Idea when using the SDK.

sonocu

Thanks for your suggestions!
It seems that I verified that something went wrong during the build of Qt:
Originally I downloaded a lot of files and performed the configure and nmake step. probably I did not set up the configure options probably or the files I used for installation were incomplete.
I could not even make a Qt application with an empty GUI run, because it always stops at the Linking stage.

So I deleted the old Version and downloaded an exe found here:
http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/sdk-windows-cpp-offline

After installing, I tried the simple Qt application, which now can be build. :)
(still under visual studio)

To make my project run I probably have to adapt some more settings inside of Visual Studio.
Anyway I made it run under Linux, so it's probably just a matter of time and finding the correct buttons. (Testing several settings using makefiles sure does not take so long! )

Anyway I will probably change to SDK in the longrun, as you both advised. Seems to be more comfortable.
Thank you very much!

koahnig

[quote author="sonocu" date="1342108088"]Thanks for your suggestions!
It seems that I verified that something went wrong during the build of Qt:
Originally I downloaded a lot of files and performed the configure and nmake step. probably I did not set up the configure options probably or the files I used for installation were incomplete.
I could not even make a Qt application with an empty GUI run, because it always stops at the Linking stage.

So I deleted the old Version and downloaded an exe found here:
http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/sdk-windows-cpp-offline

After installing, I tried the simple Qt application, which now can be build. :)
(still under visual studio)

To make my project run I probably have to adapt some more settings inside of Visual Studio.
Anyway I made it run under Linux, so it's probably just a matter of time and finding the correct buttons. (Testing several settings using makefiles sure does not take so long! )

Anyway I will probably change to SDK in the longrun, as you both advised. Seems to be more comfortable.
Thank you very much![/quote]
In case you like to compile Qt for MSVC you should not use the sources supplied with the SDK. Use then the zipped sources from "here":http://releases.qt-project.org/qt4/source/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.2.zip