[SOLVED] Installing QtQuick Controls

Jens

That error happens because the controls are developed for Qt 5.1 and you are most likely using Qt 5.0. To use the controls you would have to check out Qt 5 from git and compile the stable branch.

weiyuemin

I think I'm using the dev branch (checked out serveral days ago)

BTW, how to compile the specific branch? I'm not sure whether I'm operating correct.

What I do is:

1). git clone git://gitorious.org/qt/qt5.git qt5

I guess the default branch is the stable branch. If I want a dev branch, then Switch to dev branch.

2). perl init-repository

3). and so on

Is this correct?

weiyuemin

I will checked out another clean stable branch, and clone a http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtquickcontrols into qt5 folder. Am I operating right?

Jens

Yes it sounds correct. We only merged "dev" into "stable" a few days ago so if you cloned earlier you will probably just have to update and do a clean build. You will need to build qtbase, qtjsbackend and qtdeclarative in order to use qtquickcontrols.

weiyuemin

Thank you.
So I will do the following:
1). clone the stable branch now, into D:\Qt\git\qt5
2). cd into D:\Qt\git\qt5, perl init-repository
3). clone http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtquickcontrols, into D:\Qt\git\qt5\qtquickcontrols
4). configure -debug-and-release -opensource -opengl desktop -nomake tests -no-vcproj
5). jom\jom -j2

Am I right?

My question is, as long as I put qtquickcontrols into the qt5 folder, the configure script will know the 'qtquickcontrols' is there, and do the right thing? Shall I need some more arguments or options when configure ?

Becausing cloning and building takes a long time and I've failed many times, So I'd like to ask the operations in detail. Thank you for your patience :)

Jens

The qtquickcontrols is still an independent project from qt5 and doesn't have to be in the same folder. Configure shouldn't have to do anything special to build it. It can be treated as any other qml project, but it might need write access to your qt directory for a proper installation.

After compiling qt5 in stable, all you really have to do to make controls work is "qmake", "make" and possibly "make install". They should deploy themselves into your qt5/qtbin/qml folder so that any qml code that imports QtQuick.Controls will find them in their search path.

weiyuemin

Well, I got it :) I used to think it's a plugin or a part of Qt so it should be in the Qt folder. Haha
Thank you :)

weiyuemin

Still failed..

I don't have a 'make', so I use nmake (or jom) after qmake. Is this OK?

This error:

d:\qt\stable\qtquickcontrols\examples\text.moc../src/documenthandler.h(44) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'QQuickTextDocument': No such file or directory

I tried three versions of Qt: dev(checked out today, serveral hours ago) / stable(serveral days ago) / dev(serveral days ago)

then cd into qtquickcontrols, qmake, nmake ( or jom ), all result in the same error: 'QQuickTextDocument': No such file or directory

In fact, I searched my Qt folders, there are indeed no file named 'QQuickTextDocument'.

I switch the dev branch to stable branch, git pull, git submodule sync, git submodule update --recursive, search the folder, still no file named 'QQuickTextDocument'.

jiggy

Is there any update on this? I am still getting same error.
"module "QtQuick.Controls" plugin "plugin" not found "

I have downloaded qt5 and installed "stable" branch today. but I can't see qtquickcontrols in qt5 directory. So I downloaded qtquickcontrols from git, compiled and installed.

QtCreator imports other modules for example "LocalStorage 2.0" from QtQuick but not Controls.
I rechecked and Controls folder is there in Qt_install_dir/qml/QtQuick.

ps: when I type "import QtQuickControls 1.0" QtCreator doesn't show red underline. does that mean creator found it?

weiyuemin

jiggy: you can try Qt 5.1 alpha: http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-5.1-Alpha

There is qtquickcontrols in 5.1's directory.

jiggy

weiyuemin:

That worked. thanks!