poppler with mingw64 on windows?

Tomax63 · wrote on 15 Dec 2018, 06:47

Does anyone use poppler in qt5.11 with mingw64?

I would need some help on how to include and use it.

Thanks in advance,

Thomas

SGaist · 22 Dec 2018, 07:15

Hi,

It should be the same as any other library. What is exactly your problem ?

Tomax63 · 21 Dec 2018, 15:50

It keeps telling me that two files are missing:

Object.h and another one.

They are not inside the poppler directory

aha_1980 · wrote on 21 Dec 2018, 15:50

@Tomax63 to help you, we need the exact steps you did and the exact error messages.

Thanks

Tomax63 · 21 Dec 2018, 17:12

I copied the "src" directory from the poppler archive "poppler-master.zip" to my development directory and included the complete directory into Qt Creator

When I want to compile, it has these error messages:

D:\dl\Dateien\Entwicklung\CPP\PumPpro\src\ArthurOutputDev.cc:36: Fehler: config.h: No such file or directory
 #include <config.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~
D:\dl\Dateien\Entwicklung\CPP\PumPpro\src\poppler-annotation-helper.h:30: Fehler: Object.h: No such file or directory
 #include <Object.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~

aha_1980 · wrote on 21 Dec 2018, 17:12

@Tomax63 said in poppler with mingw64 on windows?:

"poppler-master.zip"

Where did you get it from?

Tomax63 · 21 Dec 2018, 17:25

https://github.com/freedesktop/poppler

but from

https://poppler.freedesktop.org/

it´s the same

aha_1980 · wrote on 21 Dec 2018, 17:25

@Tomax63

Well, then, have you followed the build instructions in https://github.com/freedesktop/poppler/blob/master/INSTALL ?

Tomax63 · 21 Dec 2018, 18:17

No, I haven´t.

I tried, but get the following error:

Der Befehl "cmake" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder
konnte nicht gefunden werden.

Command "cmake" is either typed wrong or can not be found.

aha_1980 · wrote on 21 Dec 2018, 18:17

@Tomax63 then install cmake, please.

Tomax63 · 21 Dec 2018, 18:39

Ok. I installed it.
An error occurred:

D:\dl\Dateien\Entwicklung\CPP\PumPpro\src\build>cmake ..
-- Building for: Visual Studio 14 2015
-- Selecting Windows SDK version  to target Windows 10.0.17134.
-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.0.24210.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.0.24210.0
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/bin/cl.exe
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/bin/cl.exe -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/bin/cl.exe
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/bin/cl.exe -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:47 (install):
  install TARGETS given no ARCHIVE DESTINATION for static library target
  "poppler-qt5".


CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:
  No cmake_minimum_required command is present.  A line of code such as

    cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.13)

  should be added at the top of the file.  The version specified may be lower
  if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project.  For more
  information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "D:/dl/Dateien/Entwicklung/CPP/PumPpro/src/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

When I added "cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.13)" to the top of the file, and started cmake again, the following appeared:

D:\dl\Dateien\Entwicklung\CPP\PumPpro\src\build>cmake ..
-- Building for: Visual Studio 14 2015
-- Selecting Windows SDK version  to target Windows 10.0.17134.
-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.0.24210.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.0.24210.0
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/bin/cl.exe
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/bin/cl.exe -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/bin/cl.exe
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0/VC/bin/cl.exe -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:49 (install):
  install TARGETS given no ARCHIVE DESTINATION for static library target
  "poppler-qt5".


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "D:/dl/Dateien/Entwicklung/CPP/PumPpro/src/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

In cmake GUI, it looks like this:
![alt text]( image url)

aha_1980 · wrote on 21 Dec 2018, 18:39

@Tomax63 I'm out here, never really used cmake.

Just as note: it detected your MSVC compiler, you seemed to use MinGW for your project?

Tomax63 · wrote on 21 Dec 2018, 18:40

Yes, I do. I have no idea why it uses MSVC compile. I dont use it.

Tomax63 · wrote on 21 Dec 2018, 18:44

Does poppler work with MinGW?

And how can I configure cmake to use MinGW?

Or can I use gcc for poppler too?

Tomax63 · wrote on 21 Dec 2018, 20:51

Is it possible that someone who knows how to do it compiles the package for me and gives me the library (is it a dll?)

Just like

https://sourceforge.net/projects/poppler-qt5-mingw32/

Tomax63 · 22 Dec 2018, 08:53

@SGaist Could you help me by any chance?

aha_1980 · wrote on 22 Dec 2018, 08:53

@Tomax63 Please give us some time to help you!

People here help for free in their sparetime, and live in totally different time zones. Not everyone is using Windows, not everyone uses MinGW and not everyone CMake.

Does this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4101456/running-cmake-on-windows bring you a step forward?

Tomax63 · wrote on 22 Dec 2018, 12:38

No problem, take your time all. I would just like to make it between christmas and new year

SGaist · wrote on 22 Dec 2018, 17:19

Hi,

Take a look at this stack overflow answer, the same applies to your case.

Short version:
You likely have something similar in the concerned CMakeLists.txt file:

INSTALL(
  TARGETS poppler-qt5
  ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib # <-- A line like this is likely missing
  LIBRARY DESTINATION lib  
  COMPONENT library
)

Tomax63 · wrote on 22 Dec 2018, 19:08

This is in my file:

install(TARGETS poppler-qt5 
		RUNTIME DESTINATION bin 
		LIBRARY DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR} 
		ARCHIVE DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR})