CMake /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lQtScript

Briddl

Hi,

I have a existing Qt 4.8.2 project where I had to QtScript support. The project is build with cmake.
I added the QtScript lib bby ```

//

find_package(Qt4 REQUIRED QtScript QtCore QtGui QtXml)

This works fine for compiling but when the linker starts I get every time:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lQtScript 
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [...] Error 1
make[1]: *** [...] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Since compiling works find_package() should have worked. What I don't understand is why das linking not work when find_package() must have found QtScript already. Has someone any ideas?

Regards

SGaist

Hi,

Pretty strange indeed. Did you check that you have the QtScript dev package installed ?

Briddl

@SGaist

dpkg -l | grep libqt4*

returns:

ii    libqt4-script:amd64  4:4.8.2+dfsg-11  amd64     Qt   4 script module 
rc   libqt4-script:i386    4:4.8.2+dfsg-11  i386      Qt   4 script module

it seams to me it is available. However I didn't see a *script-dev version.

SGaist

Aren't you then missing the libqt4-dev package from your system ?

Briddl

@SGaist libqt4-dev is listed I just forgot to mention it.

I got one step closer to the solution. It seams that the cmake script used the non commercial qt 4.8.2 version instate of the also installed commercial 4.8.2 version.

I added just to test it

link_directories([PATH_TO_COMMERCIAL_LIBS])

With this added the progamm is compiled and linked successfully. The problems now is that I get warnings that no safe linker search path for the target could be created because some how now the script finds both the ones in the commercial directory and the one in /sr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu.

I think i have to find the right envirmental variable to make it right. Thanks for your help.

SGaist

IIRC, you can use CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH when calling qmake to make it found your other Qt version first.

By the way, are you locked to 4.8.2 ? If not, you should at least update to 4.8.7 which is the latest and last of the Qt 4 series or better go with Qt 5.

Briddl

@SGaist thx I will try that. I have to check if I can use Qt5 I think we have a non version bound license but at the moment its kind of a "never touch a running system" situation"