[Solved] Doxygen for Qt Creator 2.7.0

code_fodder

noooooooooo, more extra steps :o

I just prefer to do the easiest option :)
Build from command line sounds fine with me, I have not a clue how to do that though!, somthing like qmake -r or such? ... I tried a few of these things that I read. I even tried the mingw32 make command in the top level directory, but these did not work for me :(

@Koahnig, yes, sorry that is still for QtCreator only I have not got past that step yet :(

koahnig

The Qt creator source folder has a README. I have this IIRC. Sometimes RTFM helps :P but I am a candidate to ignore those as well.
I was checking my folders and could not find qbs, but the link supplied by sierdzio shows that it is something new.

code_fodder

yeah, I read that readme... this is where I tried to run qmake -r .. or make, but these commands are not known. So then I added the mingw\bin path and it is still not known, so this was confusing me :(

I will try it again tomorrow, but I am not sure that I have all that I need...

koahnig

[quote author="code_fodder" date="1371576312"]yeah, I read that readme... this is where I tried to run qmake -r .. or make, but these commands are not known. So then I added the mingw\bin path and it is still not known, so this was confusing me :(

I will try it again tomorrow, but I am not sure that I have all that I need...[/quote]
Well, need to type the path with the commands. Alternatively, you can add the path to environment. I would clean the path setting anyway before starting to build. It helps to know what the system is using ;-)

code_fodder

This is little frustrating me at the moment... I have got a little further.

I have created a batch file to set my paths like this:

@@echo off
set PATH=C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\mingw47_32\bin;C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\Tools\MinGW\bin;C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\Tools\QtCreator\creator\bin;%PATH%
echo %PATH%
set QMAKESPEC=win32-g++
cd C:\Qt\qt-creator-2.7.0-src
cmd@

Then I run qmake -r and I get this following errors which look similar to my first errors :(

@C:\Qt\qt-creator-2.7.0-src>qmake -r
Reading C:/Qt/qt-creator-2.7.0-src/src/src.pro
C:/Qt/qt-creator-2.7.0-src/.qmake.cache:1: Missing closing " quote
MAKEFILE_GENERATOR variable not set as a result of parsing : src.pro. Possibly qmake was not able to find files included
using "include(..)" - enable qmake debugging to investigate more.
Reading C:/Qt/qt-creator-2.7.0-src/share/share.pro
C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\mingw47_32/mkspecs/features/testcase_targets.prf:4: 'prepareRecursiveTarget' is not a recognized tes
t function.
Reading C:/Qt/qt-creator-2.7.0-src/share/qtcreator/static.pro
MAKEFILE_GENERATOR variable not set as a result of parsing : static.pro. Possibly qmake was not able to find files inclu
ded using "include(..)" - enable qmake debugging to investigate more.
Reading C:/Qt/qt-creator-2.7.0-src/share/qtcreator/translations/translations.pro
MAKEFILE_GENERATOR variable not set as a result of parsing : translations.pro. Possibly qmake was not able to find files
included using "include(..)" - enable qmake debugging to investigate more.
MAKEFILE_GENERATOR variable not set as a result of parsing : share.pro. Possibly qmake was not able to find files includ
ed using "include(..)" - enable qmake debugging to investigate more.
Reading C:/Qt/qt-creator-2.7.0-src/lib/qtcreator/qtcomponents/qtcomponents.pro
MAKEFILE_GENERATOR variable not set as a result of parsing : qtcomponents.pro. Possibly qmake was not able to find files
included using "include(..)" - enable qmake debugging to investigate more.@

So... what is the next step that I am missing? :o

Thanks :)

koahnig

Hmmmhh...
I would guess it has something to do with your Qt 5 installation. Presumably it is broken.
I had a check a couple of days ago, since there was another thread reporting MAKEFILE_GENERATOR problems. The MAKEFILE_GENERATOR basically states the OS (unix or apparently different windows variants). Have a look to the mkspecs files of your Qt 5 installation folder. Each these files declare this. In particular have a look to win32-g++ you are referring to.

code_fodder

Ok.... so I took your thoughts and assumed there is something wrong with my setup and started over. When reading through the readme I noticed that after the part saying that you need to run qmake -r, further down there is a list of pre-requisites like GIT and active state perl. I did not expect the pre-requisites to be after the qmake command :o

So I installed both of these (I assume it was perl that I was missing). Also when I run "sh.exe" it runs a shell, that should not happen either apparently if that happens your build will fail!

So after going through these steps with a fine-toothed comb I think the build is now running :) ... currently it is reading its way through various .pro files and is taking quite a long time so I will wait for that to finish and report back!

Once I get doygen working I am going to write a detailed wiki!! :o

So if this works I may still need a few more pointers and all help so far has been really appreciated :)

code_fodder

hmmm.....ok I am running through step 10:

@ 10. You are now ready to configure and build Qt and Qt Creator.
To use MinGW, open the the shell prompt and enter:

     cd qt
     configure -debug && mingw32-make -s
     cd ..\creator
     qmake && mingw32-make -s@

I have just entered the configure line.... its doing a load of stuff, but I have a bad feeling that this is re-compiling my Qt for static builds... is this the case? - I really did not mean to do that. Can someone confirm what that actually does?
Thanks!

code_fodder

damn..... and finally when I try the last command it fails ....noo :(

command: qmake && mingw32-make -s

here is the output:

@C:\Qt\qt-creator-2.7.0-src>qmake && mingw32-make -s
./release\pluginmanager.o: file not recognized: File truncated
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile.Release:112: recipe for target '......\lib\qt
mingw32-make[3]: *** [......\lib\qtcreator\ExtensionSy
Makefile:34: recipe for target 'release' failed
mingw32-make[2]: *** [release] Error 2
Makefile:86: recipe for target 'sub-libs-extensionsystem
mingw32-make[1]: *** [sub-libs-extensionsystem-make_firs
makefile:40: recipe for target 'sub-src-make_first-order
mingw32-make: *** [sub-src-make_first-ordered] Error 2@

pluginmanager.o does exist here: C:\Qt\qt-creator-2.7.0-src\src\libs\extensionsystem\release

I think I am running out of ideas.... should it not be simple to build this qt creator project. How are other people doing it?

Any further advice appreciated

koahnig

It should be fairly easy. It wasn't an issue for me end of last year.
qt creator was still based on 4.74, IIRC. I simply downloaded Qt creator 2.6.0 and followed the instructions and linked with my Qt 4.8.3(?) version which was readily compiled with MinGW already. So, I was skipping all stuff related to Qt lib compilation.
Unfortunately, I do not use Qt 5 yet. Otherwise I would try to do a creator compilation myself. Maybe I have a look with Qt4.8.4 over the weekend.

How did you solve the MAKEFILE_GENERATOR problem?
Was it simply by following the recipe?

code_fodder

Yeah the make file gen issue... basically I located where qmake is (for me it is slightly different, perhaps a change in qt5).

Then I installed active state python.

Then I removed the path of where "sh.exe" is located. I ended up with a batch file like this:

@@echo off
set PATH=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\tools\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin;
set PATH=C:\Perl\site\bin;C:\Perl\bin;C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\mingw47_32\bin;C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\Tools\MinGW\bin;C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\Tools\QtCreator\creator\bin;C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\Src\qtbase;%PATH%
echo %PATH%
set QMAKESPEC=win32-g++
cd C:\Qt\qt-creator-2.7.0-src
cmd@

Where I took advice from earlier to clean out the PATH so it has only what I need. Then that issue went away :)

Maybe I can find a clean machine later and try with older Qt versions, but the idea for me was to make doxygen work with qt sdk 5.0.2 (therefore qt 5.0.2 / qtcreater 2.7.0), so going back to qt 4 for me would defeat my goal :o

koahnig

Well, I shy away from changing to Qt5 yet. Never change a running configuration :D As long as Qt 4.8.4 works fine I do not see a reason. AFAIK Qt creator has been compiled and linked for/with Qt 5, so you are not the first one.
I am really wondering what the issue could be.

code_fodder

koahnig... don't be so shy please! ...lol
Thanks for your help, really appreciate it. I will continue this in the background and try on a fresh PC. Its maybe worth trying the Qt4 just so that I can go through the process and see it work / get more experience... I'll leave the post open until I give up :o ... or succeed :)

koahnig

Well, the issue is, if you start to change it looks easy at the start, but cost you a lot of hair at the end. The change from Qt4.8 to Qt 5 is not a minor sugery.
Therefore, I shy away to change. Better shy than sorry :D

code_fodder

...hey... what keeps happening to my posts?, I have re-written my list of instructions 2 times!, and koahning you replied to one of them... and even that is gone. Have we reached the max limit of the number of pages?

koahnig

There is no max number of pages AFAIK.
You are right my reply from this morning is gone as well.
Do you write a bug report on this strange thing?

It is not the first time I wondered what happened.

code_fodder

no.... I have never written one, Ill have to see how do that.

I had a question for you in my lost post. I built the doxygen project in the end :D

however, there is no dll output from it, I am not sure what to do with the output to use it with my QtCreator... any hint?

Thanks :)

koahnig

There should be a dll.
...\creator_build\lib\qtcreator\plugins\QtProject\Doxygen.dll
...\creator_build\lib\qtcreator\plugins\QtProject\Doxygen.pluginspec
are the places where I placed them. It is the same spot as the standard creator plugins are.
At the of the qmake run it should have told you where the DESTDIR is.

koahnig

Placed a bug report "QTWEBSITE-527":https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTWEBSITE-527
A bit hard to describe what happened.

Anyway I had started "a thread on this issue":http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/29122/ already earlier today.

code_fodder

nice one for the bug report :)

Also I found that dll, it was not in the output folder it was in a new folder:
C:\Qt\qtcreator-doxygen\lib\qtcreator\plugins\Kofee

But as you said it was specified in the comments of the .pro file :D

So, I am on my clean PC I will transfer/copy these files to the correct location on my dev PC with the doxygen plugin.

You mentioned modifying the pluginspec file... it looks ok to me, ill try it as it is first see what happens :)

Nearly there!, I was starting to doubt :o