Install a package from qt-solutions

SGaist

Can you share your .pro file ?

Sikarjan

Sure I can:

#-------------------------------------------------
#
# Project created by QtCreator 2017-01-05T07:43:22
#
#-------------------------------------------------

QT       += core gui xml

greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets

TARGET = phpPad
TEMPLATE = app

include(plugins/qtsingleapplication/src/qtsingleapplication.pri)

# The following define makes your compiler emit warnings if you use
# any feature of Qt which as been marked as deprecated (the exact warnings
# depend on your compiler). Please consult the documentation of the
# deprecated API in order to know how to port your code away from it.
DEFINES += QT_DEPRECATED_WARNINGS

# You can also make your code fail to compile if you use deprecated APIs.
# In order to do so, uncomment the following line.
# You can also select to disable deprecated APIs only up to a certain version of Qt.
#DEFINES += QT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE=0x060000    # disables all the APIs deprecated before Qt 6.0.0

SOURCES += main.cpp\
        mainwindow.cpp \
    components/codeeditor.cpp \
    components/highlighter.cpp \
    components/projectmodel.cpp \
    dialogs/newproject.cpp \
    dialogs/newtabledialog.cpp \
    dialogs/preferencedialog.cpp

HEADERS  += mainwindow.h \
    components/codeeditor.h \
    components/highlighter.h \
    components/projectmodel.h \
    dialogs/newproject.h \
    dialogs/newtabledialog.h \
    dialogs/preferencedialog.h

FORMS    += mainwindow.ui \
    dialogs/newproject.ui \
    dialogs/newtabledialog.ui \
    dialogs/preferencedialog.ui

DISTFILES += \
    appIcon/phpPad.rc \
    Erungenschaften.txt \
    xml/html.xml

RESOURCES += \
    qrc.qrc

ICON = appIcon/phpPad.icns

RC_FILE = appIcon/phpPad.rc

I believe the issue is with the client/peer feature. This feature is not relevant for me. Somewhere in the documentation I read the the minimal example is not making use of this feature but it uses the same files. So I don't get how they did it.

SGaist

What did you copy exactly from the QtSolutions module ?

Sikarjan

Currently I am trying all of this only on Windows.

I downloaded the entire solutions package from github as zip. Extracted it in my Downloads folder and followed the install instruction within the qtsingleapplicaition folder. Then I copied the entire qtsingeapplication folder and pasted it in the plugin folder which is in my root folder. From the qtsingleapplication folder I removed the configure, make, docs and examples. The src and buildlib folder is untouched.

This is the content of my qtsingeapplication folder

buildlib
src
common.pri
qtsingleapplication.pro

SGaist

Where is your project source located on your machine ?
Same question for QtSolution sources.

Sikarjan

On Windows my files are in my standard Windows documents folder. On OS X under User/Programming. The qtsingleapplication folder is in the project folder under plugins. The rest of the QtSolution files is still in my Download folder.

SGaist

AFAIR you should essentially need:

INCLUDEPATH += $$PWD
DEPENDPATH += $$PWD
QT *= network
greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT *= widgets

SOURCES += $$PWD/qtsingleapplication.cpp $$PWD/qtlocalpeer.cpp
HEADERS += $$PWD/qtsingleapplication.h $$PWD/qtlocalpeer.h

jsulm

@SGaist += not *=
:-)

sierdzio

@jsulm said in Install a package from qt-solutions:

@SGaist += not *=
:-)

*= is perfectly fine. See the docs

jsulm

@sierdzio Oh, good to know :-)
Thanks!

Sikarjan

Thanks for all you help and time. I got it working finally. Probably not the most elegant way but it works for me =)

@SGaist your suggestion worked (after I figured out to remove the include statement) but it included the files directly into my project messing up my structure in Creator. Also it gave me an error in my main.cpp on #include <qtsingleapplication.h> no such file

Essentially only the network module was missing.

QT       += core gui xml network

greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets

TARGET = phpPad
TEMPLATE = app

include(plugins/qtsingleapplication/src/qtsingleapplication.pri)

I am very sure that I tried to include that before with a clean and rebuild. No idea why it is working now.