Unable to compile Qt5.8 with MingW 64 bit compiler
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@Srinivasan.B In the past I have built Qt for windows a lot. I have not done this recently as it really is too much of a painful experience.
Trying to get Qt building with mingw64 is very difficult. And I mean very. Expect that you will run into many many problems getting things working. You have to ask yourself if it is worth it to build yourself or if you should just grab the prebuilt binaries.
If you insist on proceeding here are some tips I've learned:
- Qt requires pretty specific versions on mingw. Just any old mingw will rarely work without tweaks to Qt's code. Find out what version you should use on Qt 5.8.
- Not all mingw64 compilers are ready to build the majority of windows code yet. This may not be true any more as I haven't tried this in about 2-3 years but back then there was a lot of missing functionality.
- Mixing visual c++ and mingw stuff will never work. The fact you installed the win10 sdk and are trying to use that with mingw stuff probably means your build will never work. Unless, again my knowledge here is outdated, mingw has been designed to work with that windows 10 kit.
- Be very careful what you have in your PATH when you try to build using mingw. Also be careful with what you try to include/add as libs. People love to try to mix binary formats and of course this will fail.
- And finally, expect to have to make some tweaks to the build process or to the Qt code itself to get it to work with your 64-bit mingw. I have never successfully built it on a windows machine without doing this. The build process doesn't seem very fleshed out for windows/mingw64.
Good luck! My advice is use the binaries unless you have a specific reason not to. This is coming from someone that builds all Qts from source, except windows 64-bit. ;)
wrote on 14 Feb 2017, 04:48 last edited by@ambershark I would like to use the pre-compiled binary but I do not have the binaries compiled for gcc 64bit compiler. I also want to get away from using Visual Studio compiler. I have compiled Qt earlier as well and I did not face any issues. This is the first time I am having some issues compiling Qt.
I agree that mixing VC++ and mingw will not work, but Windows 10 SDK is given as a pre-requisite and the compilitation was failing in qwin10helpers.cpp:60:37 ( fatal error: UIViewSettingsInterop.h not found). To resolve this it was suggested to install windows 10 SDK in Qt Blog.
Other than windows 10 SDK I do have have VC++ installed in my machine. I have also crosschecked all the PATH and LIB variables so as not to mix VC++ libraries and mingw libraries.
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@ambershark I would like to use the pre-compiled binary but I do not have the binaries compiled for gcc 64bit compiler. I also want to get away from using Visual Studio compiler. I have compiled Qt earlier as well and I did not face any issues. This is the first time I am having some issues compiling Qt.
I agree that mixing VC++ and mingw will not work, but Windows 10 SDK is given as a pre-requisite and the compilitation was failing in qwin10helpers.cpp:60:37 ( fatal error: UIViewSettingsInterop.h not found). To resolve this it was suggested to install windows 10 SDK in Qt Blog.
Other than windows 10 SDK I do have have VC++ installed in my machine. I have also crosschecked all the PATH and LIB variables so as not to mix VC++ libraries and mingw libraries.
wrote on 14 Feb 2017, 06:03 last edited by@Srinivasan.B I don't think you'll be able to get it building with mingw64. Even the Qt devs don't build it for that.
As I mentioned above, last I checked mingw64 is just too incomplete and missing too many things to successfully build Qt. If you have to have 64-bit using Qt you'll want to use VS unfortunately.
You mentioned gcc64 which you can't do on windows, unless you are talking about using cygwin for gcc. But I'm 90% sure you can't build Qt with that gcc.
You're pretty much stuck using VS for 64-bit Qt in windows.
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wrote on 14 Feb 2017, 21:13 last edited by
I ran into the same problem. Using Win 7, mingw.
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wrote on 17 Feb 2017, 10:40 last edited by _PIB
I have successfully compiled QT5.8.0 with MinGW w64 x64 5.4.0. recently. Be sure to check out all following links if you run into problems:
https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/build-sources.html
https://wiki.qt.io/Building_a_static_Qt_for_Windows_using_MinGW
https://wiki.qt.io/MinGW
https://wiki.qt.io/Mingw-64-bit
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/windows-requirements.html#gcc-mingw-builds
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/supported-platforms-and-configurations.html
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/windows-building.html
https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_Desktop_for_Windows_with_MinGWIt was only difficult for me because I did not read all that information beforehand. I used OpenSSL 1.0.2k and ICU 57.1 (it is optional, you need MSYS for both of them).
This is a direct link to the toolchain which I used: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains targetting Win64/Personal Builds/mingw-builds/5.4.0/threads-posix/seh/
Make sure that it suits you, I remeber that GCC's C++ ABI changed at some 5.x version.
If you still want to try building it with your version try searching for this header in all files of your toolchain - it is required for MinGW build. By the way, the toolchain which I have has this include file inside, no SDK required.
#if defined(Q_CC_MINGW) # define HAS_UI_VIEW_SETTINGS_INTEROP -
I have successfully compiled QT5.8.0 with MinGW w64 x64 5.4.0. recently. Be sure to check out all following links if you run into problems:
https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/build-sources.html
https://wiki.qt.io/Building_a_static_Qt_for_Windows_using_MinGW
https://wiki.qt.io/MinGW
https://wiki.qt.io/Mingw-64-bit
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/windows-requirements.html#gcc-mingw-builds
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/supported-platforms-and-configurations.html
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/windows-building.html
https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_Desktop_for_Windows_with_MinGWIt was only difficult for me because I did not read all that information beforehand. I used OpenSSL 1.0.2k and ICU 57.1 (it is optional, you need MSYS for both of them).
This is a direct link to the toolchain which I used: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains targetting Win64/Personal Builds/mingw-builds/5.4.0/threads-posix/seh/
Make sure that it suits you, I remeber that GCC's C++ ABI changed at some 5.x version.
If you still want to try building it with your version try searching for this header in all files of your toolchain - it is required for MinGW build. By the way, the toolchain which I have has this include file inside, no SDK required.
#if defined(Q_CC_MINGW) # define HAS_UI_VIEW_SETTINGS_INTEROPwrote on 18 Feb 2017, 14:22 last edited byThanks for your input. I could overcome this problem with UIViewSettingsInterop.h. This was because the TDM-gcc 5.1 version doesn't have this file in the include directory. Hence I tried using mingw-gcc version 5.4 from the link which you have provided.
Now I have another peculiar problem while compiling q3D module. I am pasting the error message below.
g++ -c -pipe -fno-keep-inline-dllexport -g -std=c++1z -Wall -Wextra -Wno-ignored-qualifiers -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-function -Wno-reorder -Wvla -Wdate-time -frtti -fexceptions -mthreads -DUNICODE -D_DEBUG -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS -DASSIMP_BUILD_NO_OWN_ZLIB -DASSIMP_BUILD_NO_COMPRESSED_IFC -DASSIMP_BUILD_NO_Q3BSP_IMPORTER -DQT_NO_FOREACH -DQT_PLUGIN -DQT_3DEXTRAS_LIB -DQT_3DRENDER_LIB -DQT_3DINPUT_LIB -DQT_3DLOGIC_LIB -DQT_3DCORE_LIB -DQT_GAMEPAD_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_CONCURRENT_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\src\plugins\sceneparsers\assimp -I. -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\src\3rdparty\assimp -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\src\3rdparty\assimp\code -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\src\3rdparty\assimp\code\BoostWorkaround -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\src\3rdparty\assimp\include -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\src\3rdparty\assimp\include\assimp\Compiler -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\src\3rdparty\assimp\contrib\ConvertUTF -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\src\3rdparty\assimp\contrib\irrXML -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\src\3rdparty\assimp\contrib\poly2tri\poly2tri -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\src\3rdparty\assimp\contrib\clipper -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\src\3rdparty\assimp\contrib\unzip -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\include\Qt3DRender\5.8.0 -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\include\Qt3DRender\5.8.0\Qt3DRender -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\include\Qt3DCore\5.8.0 -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\include\Qt3DCore\5.8.0\Qt3DCore -I........\include\Qt3DCore\5.8.0 -I........\include\Qt3DCore\5.8.0\Qt3DCore -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\include -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\include\Qt3DExtras -I........\include -I........\include\Qt3DExtras -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\include\Qt3DRender -I........\include\Qt3DRender -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\include\Qt3DInput -I........\include\Qt3DInput -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\include\Qt3DLogic -I........\include\Qt3DLogic -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\include\Qt3DCore -I........\include\Qt3DCore -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qtbase\include\QtGui\5.8.0 -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qtbase\include\QtGui\5.8.0\QtGui -IC:\Qt\build-mingw64\qtbase\include\QtGui\5.8.0 -IC:\Qt\build-mingw64\qtbase\include\QtGui\5.8.0\QtGui -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qtgamepad\include -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qtgamepad\include\QtGamepad -IC:\Qt\build-mingw64\qtgamepad\include -IC:\Qt\build-mingw64\qtgamepad\include\QtGamepad -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qtbase\include -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qtbase\include\QtGui -IC:\Qt\build-mingw64\qtbase\include -IC:\Qt\build-mingw64\qtbase\include\QtGui -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qtbase\include\QtCore\5.8.0 -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qtbase\include\QtCore\5.8.0\QtCore -IC:\Qt\build-mingw64\qtbase\include\QtCore\5.8.0 -IC:\Qt\build-mingw64\qtbase\include\QtCore\5.8.0\QtCore -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qtbase\include\QtNetwork -IC:\Qt\build-mingw64\qtbase\include\QtNetwork -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qtbase\include\QtConcurrent -IC:\Qt\build-mingw64\qtbase\include\QtConcurrent -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qtbase\include\QtCore -IC:\Qt\build-mingw64\qtbase\include\QtCore -I.moc\debug -IC:\Qt\qt580-Src\qtbase\mkspecs\win32-g++ -o .obj\debug\IFCReaderGen1.o C:\Qt\qt580-Src\qt3d\src\3rdparty\assimp\code\IFCReaderGen1.cpp
C:/mingw64-w64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/5.4.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/as.exe: .obj\debug\IFCReaderGen1.o: too many sections (40549)Can someone help me in resolving this error? Thanks in advance.
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wrote on 18 Feb 2017, 14:34 last edited by _PIB
Oh, sorry for forgetting to mention that!
This needs a workaround because the output object for this specific source is too big/complex. You need to add
-Wa,-mbig-objto the compiler options to overcome that and since Qt does not give any way to feed custom options to compiler I hackedwin32-g++mkspec to fix this: https://filebin.net/wt5xm89nqulsjtm0 . Overwrite qtbase\mkspecs\qin32-g++\qmake.conf with this.There is probably a better solution to add this to compiler arguments which I am unaware of. I only know that configure script does not have a documented way of doing this.
I do not know whether you will need to reconfigure after doing this, you probably do.
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Oh, sorry for forgetting to mention that!
This needs a workaround because the output object for this specific source is too big/complex. You need to add
-Wa,-mbig-objto the compiler options to overcome that and since Qt does not give any way to feed custom options to compiler I hackedwin32-g++mkspec to fix this: https://filebin.net/wt5xm89nqulsjtm0 . Overwrite qtbase\mkspecs\qin32-g++\qmake.conf with this.There is probably a better solution to add this to compiler arguments which I am unaware of. I only know that configure script does not have a documented way of doing this.
I do not know whether you will need to reconfigure after doing this, you probably do.
wrote on 19 Feb 2017, 04:22 last edited byThanks for your help. Finally I was able to compile Qt5.8 for MingW compiler. I did not make any changes in the spec file, rather I passed the additional options during the configure step as follows
C:\Qt\qt580-Src\configure -prefix "C:\Qt\Qt580" -debug -opensource -shared -opengl desktop -nomake examples -nomake tests -skip qtwebengine -qt-zlib -D ASSIMP_BUILD_NO_OWN_ZLIB -Wa,-mbig-obj
I also had to pass additional define -D ASSIMP_BUILD_NO_OWN_ZLIB so that q3d module could be built successfully.
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wrote on 19 Feb 2017, 05:35 last edited by
I never saw -W being mentioned anywhere while I was searching. This post will be first to do it.
Mark it as solved then.
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Thanks for your help. Finally I was able to compile Qt5.8 for MingW compiler. I did not make any changes in the spec file, rather I passed the additional options during the configure step as follows
C:\Qt\qt580-Src\configure -prefix "C:\Qt\Qt580" -debug -opensource -shared -opengl desktop -nomake examples -nomake tests -skip qtwebengine -qt-zlib -D ASSIMP_BUILD_NO_OWN_ZLIB -Wa,-mbig-obj
I also had to pass additional define -D ASSIMP_BUILD_NO_OWN_ZLIB so that q3d module could be built successfully.
wrote on 2 May 2017, 03:46 last edited by Rapidrain 5 Feb 2017, 03:47Very interesting what you did here. I'm having the same problem now.
Can you explain to an amateur like me what you mean by "I also had to pass additional define -D ASSIMP_BUILD_NO_OWN_ZLIB so that q3d module could be built successfully."
Where exactly do you put this line of text? Where is this define written?
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Very interesting what you did here. I'm having the same problem now.
Can you explain to an amateur like me what you mean by "I also had to pass additional define -D ASSIMP_BUILD_NO_OWN_ZLIB so that q3d module could be built successfully."
Where exactly do you put this line of text? Where is this define written?
wrote on 2 May 2017, 04:02 last edited by@Rapidrain He shows the line needed right here:
C:\Qt\qt580-Src\configure -prefix "C:\Qt\Qt580" -debug -opensource -shared -opengl desktop -nomake examples -nomake tests -skip qtwebengine -qt-zlib -D ASSIMP_BUILD_NO_OWN_ZLIB -Wa,-mbig-obj
So you pass it to the configure for Qt.
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@Rapidrain He shows the line needed right here:
C:\Qt\qt580-Src\configure -prefix "C:\Qt\Qt580" -debug -opensource -shared -opengl desktop -nomake examples -nomake tests -skip qtwebengine -qt-zlib -D ASSIMP_BUILD_NO_OWN_ZLIB -Wa,-mbig-obj
So you pass it to the configure for Qt.
wrote on 2 May 2017, 04:09 last edited by@ambershark Thank you muchly. I see now it was a configure option.
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wrote on 22 Feb 2018, 23:20 last edited by
A bit dirty, yet effective solution:
sed -i ‘/^ *# *define *HAS_UI_VIEW_SETTINGS_INTEROP *$/d‘ qtbase/src/plugins/platforms/windows/qwin10helpers.cpp
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A bit dirty, yet effective solution:
sed -i ‘/^ *# *define *HAS_UI_VIEW_SETTINGS_INTEROP *$/d‘ qtbase/src/plugins/platforms/windows/qwin10helpers.cpp
wrote on 13 Mar 2018, 19:55 last edited by@Andrej-Debenjak it's not solution even in the slightest sense.