Error while building Qt from source code on macOS

qtProgrammer

Hello,

I want to be able to debug into qt source code so i started compiling the latest Qt version 5.8 on my MAC.
I followed the instructions on Qt webpage about building it. But this is what i get after running configure.

**../qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.8.0/configure -prefix /Users/userName/qt-install-5.8 0 -opensource -debug-and-release
+ cd qtbase
+ /Users/userName/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.8.0/qtbase/configure -top-level -prefix /Users/username/qt-install-5.8 0 -opensource -debug-and-release

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Preparing build tree...
Creating qmake...
............................................................................................Done.

ERROR: Invalid command line parameter '0'.**

I don't understand the last line. I was trying to do a shadow build by creating a new folder for build. I also specified the install directory while running config above. After running config, these are the files that got created in my build folder.

config.cache config.log qtbase

Does this look correct.?

I am a newbie to MAC platform but i've completed compiling QT from sources on windows & linux.

When i run make, this is what i got

make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop

Thanks in advance for your help.

SGaist

Hi,

You prefix parameter is wrong. It's missing a point between 8 and 0.

qtProgrammer

Thank you @SGaist.
Sorry for this stupid mistake.

I'll try with this and compile QT on mac.
Thanks again