Help to build a binary (Win32)

[John C]

Yes, thanks to StackOverflow (1, 2), I realized yesterday, that I need QT 4.7+, but not 5.

Using online installer I successfully installed 4.8.7 yesterday, so it's not a problem:

But when I try to compile... I don't understand anything, get errors, and so on.

[raven-worx]

@John-C said in Help to build a binary (Win32):

But when I try to compile... I don't understand anything, get errors, and so on

post them and you might get help faster.

[VRonin]

WOW, building it wasn't easy at all, the project is quite messy.

I uploaded the binaries for 32bit windows based on Qt5.5 here: http://filenurse.com/download/a5aa3139359f42e9b7465f6806db5622.html
They will be available for 7 days only.
If it's missing any plugin or library let me know and I'll retry the deployment

WARNING this is a huge leap of faith you are taking here. you should never download binaries supplied directly by strangers on the internet! download only if you are 100% convinced that after all I'm a good guy and did not sneak anything dodgy in there

[mrjj]

@VRonin
Super. Cool. It was pretty nested. Did you use VS or mingw?
Any change to also share the project?

Note: running on win 10. (qt 5.7 installed)
Complains about
Qt5Sensors
Qt5Multimediawidgets
Qt5OpenGl
Qt5Multimedia

[VRonin]

MSVC2013 on Win7 Qt 5.5.1 for me it was complaining about:

• MarkdownToHtmlResult::ERROR name conflict, refactored to MarkdownToHtmlResult::mthrERROR
• QRegularExpression being defined as an internal item rather than using Qt5 class
• version_h.py is invalid (Python 3.5.2)
• zlib was not linked... I had to add it manually (and yes, I hard coded the path to my build of zlib in MdCharm.pro file)

You need to have the paths to python and git in PATH before running Qt Creator

I also got rid of the QtCore/ in the includes as I hate them

I forked it here: https://github.com/VSRonin/MdCharm

My buld steps:

pushd C:\
CALL "C:/Qt/5.5/msvc2013/bin/qtenv2.bat"
CALL "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0/VC/vcvarsall.bat"
popd
echo on
set PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Python\Python35-32;%PATH%
qmake
nmake

What you need to change:

• lines 29, 30, 32 and 34 of MdCharm.pro should contain the path to your binary version of zlib (I used the static one but you can download the pre-compiled dll)
• in the batch script above the path to the binaries

I did not even start with Qt 5.7 as I don't have QtWebKit compiled for that version

P.S.
Why would you even need python?!

[mrjj]

im glad i didn't try with mingw. Why does it need git?
And really good work :)

[VRonin]

@mrjj said in Help to build a binary (Win32):

Why does it need git?

At linking error number 1556 I stopped asking this kind of questions

[John C]

@VRonin Thank you very much for help!

Yes, there are some problems with libraries.

When I tried to launch exe file, I get the error:

The program can’t start because Qt5Sensors.dll is missing from your computer.

Well, after that I found the file with the same name in my C:\Qt directory, and I copied it into MdCharm folder. After that, I tried to launch exe file again, but now it requires libwinpthread-1.dll. Okay, I found this file, too, in my Qt directory. Totally, it was error messages about 4 missing files:

• Qt5Sensors.dll
• libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
• libwinpthread-1.dll
• libstdc++-6.dll

After I copied all these files from Qt directory[^1] to MdCharm directory, and tried to launch exe file again, I get the new error message:

The procedure entry point _Z5qHashRK10QByteArrayj could not be located in the dynamic link library Qt5Core.dll

[^1]: To be precise, these 4 files were found in many different directories. For example, Qt5Sensors.dll was found in 6 different directories:

[VRonin]

I compiled using 5.5/msvc2013/bin so use everything from that folder

[John C]

@VRonin Thank you very much again! :-) Yes, now it works. Great! :-)