Solved: installing 4.8.4 libraries on MacOS

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

If you need to get qmake from /usr/bin:

Do as before (click on choose)
Go to Macintosh HD
Presss CMD + SHIFT + .

That will temporarily show hidden folders. Then you can access /usr

Hope it helps

hmariod

SGaist,
Thank you very much!!!
You are my hero.

vwcc

Hi I have the same problem here:

I followed the suggestion there and indeed find that there is /usr/bin/qmake and it is indeed "Using Qt version 4.8.5 in /Library/Frameworks"

Following the SGaist's advice I use the command+shift+. to reveal hidden files.

Now I can see both qmake under /usr/bin BUT it is greyed out and I just CANNOT select it.

Can someone help?

vwcc

Hi I have the same problem here:

I followed the suggestion there and indeed find that there is /usr/bin/qmake and it is indeed "Using Qt version 4.8.x in /Library/Frameworks"

Following the SGaist's advice I use the command+shift+. to reveal hidden files.

Now I can see both qmake under /usr/bin BUT it is greyed out and I just CANNOT select it.

Can someone help?

SGaist

What version of Qt Creator are you using ?

afifer

Not the same person, but I have the same issue with usr/bin/qmake being greyed out. I'm using Qt Creator 3.0.1.

SGaist

Are you sure that /usr/bin/qmake is not a symbolic link that points to nowhere ?

afifer

Just got it working actually, it was an ownership issue. Changing it with "sudo chown" in terminal got it fixed:

cd usr/bin
sudo chown [username] qmake

Thanks!

Edit: Wow nope, spoke too soon. Once I changed the ownership, the Qt version automatically showed up under "Manual" so I thought everything was good. I changed tabs to add the version to my kit but it wouldn't show up in the drop-down menu. I closed the Preferences window (I didn't hit "apply") and reopened it, now the Qt version is gone and it's still greyed out when I try to select it.

vwcc

I managed to finally load qmake but in a rather roundabout way.

I followed an earlier suggest and made an alias for qmake on my documents folder using Symlink.

ln -s /usr/bin/qmake Documents/qmake

But I also saw this alias qmake as greyed out.

I then reinstalled the Qt5 binary package that includes Qt Creator and Qt 5 library (I earlier uninstalled this in preparation for installing the 4.8.5 library and Creator separately).

I choose Preference>Qt Version and choose Add.

I could now see the alias qmake which I selected.

I uninstalled the QtCreator+Qt 5 combo.

I started the Qt Creator installed earlier on a separate dir. I could now see the alias qmake as not greyed out. But the actual qmake as revealed by command+shift+. was still greyed out.

Now I have successfully installed Qt 4.8.5

This is a rather round about way and I am sure I must have turned on something by accident which could have been got at by a much shorter. But nonetheless this is how I got it working.

I wish it could be a lot less painful

SGaist

Glad you succeeded but it's indeed pretty convoluted...

afifer

Thanks vwcc, I uninstalled and reinstalled everything and now it works.