QCA no Makefile
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I have this problem getting QCA (Qt Cryptographic Architecture) for my project. I'm following this guide for building it for Windows: https://github.com/JPNaude/dev_notes/wiki/Using-the-Qt-Cryptographic-Architecture-with-Qt5
I have all the things in the Environment Setup section but Doxyfile.
When I run
cmake .
this is what I get as output:-- Selecting Windows SDK version to target Windows 10.0.16299. -- Could NOT find Doxygen (missing: DOXYGEN_EXECUTABLE) -- Building with Qt5 support -- Installed package is NOT relocatable -- Checking for certstore.. -- Using built in certstore. -- certstore path: D:/__DEV__/C++ Libs & DLLs/qca-2.1.3/certs/rootcerts.pem -- mlock(2) does not take a void * CMake Warning at plugins/qca-ossl/CMakeLists.txt:18 (message): qca-ossl will be compiled without MD2 digest algorithm support CMake Warning at plugins/qca-ossl/CMakeLists.txt:32 (message): qca-ossl will be compiled without SHA-0 digest algorithm support Plugins: qca-botan off qca-cyrus-sasl off qca-gcrypt off qca-gnupg on qca-logger on qca-nss off qca-ossl on qca-pkcs11 off qca-softstore on QCA prefix is D:/Programs/Qt/5.9.2/msvc2015 Plugins will be installed to D:/Programs/Qt/5.9.2/msvc2015/plugins Binary will be installed to D:/Programs/Qt/5.9.2/msvc2015/bin Library will be installed to D:/Programs/Qt/5.9.2/msvc2015/lib Public headers will be installed to D:/Programs/Qt/5.9.2/msvc2015/include/Qca-qt5 Private headers will be installed to D:/Programs/Qt/5.9.2/msvc2015/include/Qca-qt5 Feature file will be installed to D:/Programs/Qt/5.9.2/msvc2015/mkspecs/features Documentation will be installed to D:/Programs/Qt/Docs/Qt-5.9.2/html/qca Man page will be installed to D:/Programs/Qt/5.9.2/msvc2015/man Pkg-config file will be installed to D:/Programs/Qt/5.9.2/msvc2015/lib/pkgconfig -- Configuring done -- Generating done -- Build files have been written to: D:/__DEV__/C++ Libs & DLLs/qca-2.1.3
This all seems fine, but the next step is to run
make
, but the problem is that there is no Makefile. I'm guessing it should have been generated from runningcmake .
, or even that it should be included with the source (I checked, can't find it).The exact error I get from running
make
is this:mingw32-make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
What am I overlooking?
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Hi,
One thing that looks fishy: you seems to have an environment setup for Visual Studio 2015 yet you try to build with MinGW.
The correct command name would be
nmake
or use a MinGW build of Qt.Even if you are using cmake here: please avoid using paths with spaces and special characters, they are known to be source of troubles on Windows with qmake.
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@SGaist said in QCA no Makefile:
Hi,
One thing that looks fishy: you seems to have an environment setup for Visual Studio 2015 yet you try to build with MinGW.
The correct command name would be
nmake
or use a MinGW build of Qt.Even if you are using cmake here: please avoid using paths with spaces and special characters, they are known to be source of troubles on Windows with qmake.
I have tried other make files. For example GNuMake with the same result (you can probably tell that I am kinda new to compiling and the likes).
Running
nmake
gives the same kind of error as everything else;Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 14.00.24210.0 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. NMAKE : fatal error U1064: MAKEFILE not found and no target specified Stop.
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@VRonin said in QCA no Makefile:
also, if you are using MSVC you have to tell cmake to generate makefiles instead of project files. Pass the
-G "NMake Makefiles"
arguments to your cmake callYou sir, have saved me. I can't believe they don't specify that in the guide (it also uses MSVC, so idk why there wasn't the same problem).
I've run into some trouble while building, but that can/should be its own topic.
@VRonin said in QCA no Makefile:
Slightly related, is QCA supported and updated? The last thing you'd want is to use an out of date cryptographic library.
I normally use Crypto++ but libcrypto of OpenSSL is also very good (if you don't mind messing with C)
It is still active, looking at the the git (https://cgit.kde.org/qca.git/) the last commit was in 2017-09-30 (some months ago, but it isn't dead).
I had also been looking at Crypto++, but ended up settleing for QCA for no pacticular reasons. And I wouldn't mess with C, I'm still even just a C++ newbie afterall ;) QCA can also use OpenSSL btw.