Unable to build standalone executable on Windows 7, Qt5.3.1

blu083

I've been trying to follow this: https://qt-project.org/wiki/Build_Standalone_Qt_Application_for_Windows

But recently discovered that because I used the online installer and did NOT build from source, that the directions weren't originally relevant. I now have 5.3.1 source downloaded and get the following error:

cd <path>\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-<version>
configure -static -release -platform win32-msvc

cd qtbase
C:\Users\me\Desktop\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.3.1\qtbase\configure.bat -top-level -static -release -platform win32-msvc
Invalid option "win32-msvc" for -platform.
See the README file for a list of supported operating systems and compilers.

I've tried this in the following command prompts:
VS2013 x86 Native Tools Command Prompt
VS2013 x64 Native Tools Command Prompt
VS2013 x64 Cross Tools Command Prompt

Qt 5.3.1
Windows 7, 64-bit
VS2013 compiler

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

You don't need to set platform. Just call configure -static -release from the top of the sources and then nmake (or jom) and you should be good to go.

blu083

Thanks, looking forward to doing more with Qt!

I was able to configure after reading the README, but the build failed. Note that I have the directory with all the source files on my Desktop.

Input:
@configure -prefix

blu083

Post parsing of code failed (please see below)

blu083

Thanks, looking forward to doing more with Qt!

I was able to configure after reading the README, but the build failed. Note that I have the directory with all the source files on my Desktop.

Input:
@configure -prefix <current directory>\qtbase -opensource -nomake tests
nmake@

Output:
@bq. bq. mt.exe : general error c101008d: Failed to write the updated manifest to the resource of file "......\bin\qlalr.exe". The operation failed.
NMAKE : fatal error V1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x02'@

SGaist

Did you forget to confclean before reconfiguring ? You should consider doing an out of source build so if something goes wrong you can simply delete and restart.

blu083

And then when running in VS2013 x64 Native Tools Command Prompt:

Same input.

Output:
@
.obj\release\qmalloc.obj : fatal error LNK1112: module machine type 'X86' conflicts with target machine type 'x64'

return code '0x458
@

blu083

[quote author="SGaist" date="1410216345"]Did you forget to confclean before reconfiguring ? You should consider doing an out of source build so if something goes wrong you can simply delete and restart.[/quote]

Yes, I did, trying that now. Can you provide the command line syntax for an 'out of source' build? I'm unclear on where I can specify source code path and then output path.

SGaist

Looks like you didn't clean before re-configuring

blu083

Sorry, can you tell me how to clean? Something seems different in qt5.

It no longer seems to be:
@
make confclean
@

run from that same directory.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6067271/qt-when-builing-qt-from-source-how-do-i-clean-old-configure-configurations

SGaist

pseudo bash:

@
C:\Users\me\Desktop
mkdir build_qt5
cd build_qt5
..\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.3.1\configure -release -static -nomake examples -nomake demos
@

blu083

I'm unable to build. Trying to be very explicit about my process. Things terminate with error U1077.

This post seems to suggest something along the lines of a bad example or needing to disable my antivirus?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10356198/error-when-compiling-qt-nmake-fatal-error-u1077

@

Open VS2013 x64 Native Tools Command Prompt

Install perl, git, python, ruby

Perl

Git

Python

[Ruby](1.9.3 http://www.rubyinstaller.org/downloads/

Restart command prompt (and potentially machine) and ensure

these all now exist in your PATH variable

perl --version
git --version
python --version
ruby --version

Make separate directories for the source and build

cd \Users\blu083\Desktop
mkdir qt5source
mkdir qt5build

cd qt5source
git clone https://github.com/qtproject/qt5.git
// May have to move folders around
git checkout 5.3.1
perl init-repository

Clean any potential previous configuration

cd \Users\blu083\Desktop\qt5source
git submodule foreach --recursive "git clean -dfx"

Create the config file

cd \Users\blu083\Desktop\qt5build
C:\Users\blu083\Desktop\qt5source\configure -release -opensource -static -nomake examples

Compile to the build directory

cd \Users\blu083\Desktop\qt5build
nmake
...
mt.exe : general error c101008d: Failed to write the updated manifest to the resource of file "......\bin\moc.exe". The operation failed.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\bin\x64\mt.exe"' : return code '0x1f'
@

SGaist

Indeed, depending on which anti-virus you have on your computer, it may interfere with the creation of executable files.

blu083

Woo hoo! Turning off my antivirus and running as administrator did it.

SGaist

You shouldn't need to run it as admin. Standard user should be enough to build and run.

blu083

Continuing with the directions here: https://qt-project.org/wiki/Build_Standalone_Qt_Application_for_Windows

It's unclear where I place the static build. At the highest level of my application? I also get stopped again by the following error in my process. Note that my PATH variable does NOT have a path to qmake, so I put in the full path to be more explicit about everything. I may end up needed an absolute path to mt.exe as well:

@

Open VS2013 x64 Native Tools Command Prompt

cd \Users\blu083\Desktop\MyQtProject\MyProjectApp
C:\Qt\5.3\msvc2013_64\bin\qmake MyApp.pro
nmake release
error LNK2038: mismatch detected for 'RuntimeLibrary': value 'MD_DynamicRelease' doesn't match value 'MT_StaticRelease' in MainWindow.obj
cd release
mt.exe -manifest MyApp.exe.manifest -outputresource: MyApp.exe;1
@

SGaist

Simple, you don't move a build

Did you cleanup your project before running qmake ?

blu083

Yes. But I still don't understand how are my built libraries found. Will these now conflict with files under @C:\Qt@ directory? Can I delete the qt5build directory from my desktop?

I am now getting problems where I cannot build a release via QtCreator:
@
MSVCRT.lib(MSVCR120.dll):-1: error: LNK2005: memmove already defined in LIBCMT.lib(memcpy.obj)
MSVCRT.lib(MSVCR120.dll):-1: error: LNK2005: free already defined in LIBCMT.lib(free.obj)
MSVCRT.lib(MSVCR120.dll):-1: error: LNK2005: malloc already defined in LIBCMT.lib(malloc.obj)
...
qtmain.lib(qtmain_win.obj):-1: error: LNK2038: mismatch detected for 'RuntimeLibrary': value 'MD_DynamicRelease' doesn't match value 'MT_StaticRelease' in Settings.obj
...
LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'MSVCRT' conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library
@

This problem only seems to exist on the PC on which I did a static build. A new PC, that I just downloaded Qt5.3 onto does NOT get these errors.

SGaist

Did you by any chance modify Qt's sources to link against Visual Studio's static run time ?

blu083

I followed the directions as closely as I could. My steps are explicitly documented in this thread. I, I don't know what to do anymore. I think I'm going to build chrome apps.