building and running qt project in cli with VS 2015

[mrjj]

Hi
Do you open the Visual studio command prompt for this ?
else you need to run
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\x86_amd64\vcvarsx86_amd64.bat"
or similar to setup paths.

[Christian Ehrlicher]

@ravi2k18 said in builing and running qt project in cli with VS 2015:

C:\Qt-Workspace\helloworld>make

there is no 'make' on windows at all. It's nmake for MSVC and mingw32-make for MinGW.

[ravi2k18]

@mrjj

I am running my test program in Visual studio's Developer command prompt. Even though it says

        'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

If Visual studio does not have make command support, how can we build project with Makefile generated by qmake?

thanks....

[mrjj]

@ravi2k18
hi
as @Christian-Ehrlicher says its called nmake :)

[ravi2k18]

I opened the VS command prompt and set the Qt variables as below

set QTDIR="C:\Qt\Qt5.12.0\"
set PATH=%PATH%;%QTDIR%\5.12.0\msvc2017_64\bin;
set QMAKESPEC=win32-msvc

and while running nmake command I get below error.

C:\Qt-Workspace\helloworld>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 14.00.24210.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2015\VC\BIN\nmake.exe" -f Makefile.Release

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 14.00.24210.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        link /NOLOGO /DYNAMICBASE /NXCOMPAT /INCREMENTAL:NO /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS "/MANIFESTDEPENDENCY:type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*' processorArchitecture='*'" /MANIFEST:embed /OUT:release\helloworld.exe @C:\Users\RAV~1\AppData\Local\Temp\nm3197.tmp
Qt5Widgets.lib(Qt5Widgets.dll) : fatal error LNK1112: module machine type 'x64' conflicts with target machine type 'X86'
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2015\VC\BIN\link.EXE"' : return code '0x458'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2015\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.

C:\Qt-Workspace\helloworld>

It looks like some 32 and 64 bit mismatch but how to fix? It would be great if you can help me in fixing this.

thanks.......................

[SGaist]

Hi,

You haven opened a console configured for 32bit builds. Open one for 64bit and you should be good to go.

[ravi2k18]

@SGaist

after using x64 bit native VS command prompt, I get below error.

C:\Qt-Workspace\helloworld>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 14.00.24210.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2015\VC\BIN\amd64\nmake.exe" -f Makefile.Release

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 14.00.24210.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        cl -c -nologo -Zc:wchar_t -FS -Zc:rvalueCast -Zc:inline -Zc:strictStrings -Zc:throwingNew -O2 -MD -W3 -w34100 -w34189 -w44996 -w44456 -w44457 -w44458 -wd4577 -wd4467 -EHsc -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE -DWIN32 -D_ENABLE_EXTENDED_ALIGNED_STORAGE -DWIN64 -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_WIDGETS_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DNDEBUG -I. -I..\..\Qt\Qt5.12.0\5.12.0\msvc2017_64\include -I..\..\Qt\Qt5.12.0\5.12.0\msvc2017_64\include\QtWidgets -I..\..\Qt\Qt5.12.0\5.12.0\msvc2017_64\include\QtGui -I..\..\Qt\Qt5.12.0\5.12.0\msvc2017_64\include\QtANGLE -I..\..\Qt\Qt5.12.0\5.12.0\msvc2017_64\include\QtCore -Irelease -I\include -I..\..\Qt\Qt5.12.0\5.12.0\msvc2017_64\mkspecs\win32-msvc -Forelease\ @C:\Users\SHARDU~1\AppData\Local\Temp\nmF305.tmp
main.cpp
        link /NOLOGO /DYNAMICBASE /NXCOMPAT /INCREMENTAL:NO /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS "/MANIFESTDEPENDENCY:type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*' processorArchitecture='*'" /MANIFEST:embed /OUT:release\helloworld.exe @C:\Users\RAV~1\AppData\Local\Temp\nmF817.tmp
LINK : fatal error LNK1158: cannot run 'rc.exe'
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2015\VC\BIN\amd64\link.EXE"' : return code '0x486'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2015\VC\BIN\amd64\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.

C:\Qt-Workspace\helloworld>

is set QMAKESPEC=win32-msvc correct for x64 ? or what could be the issue here?

thanks.......

[SGaist]

What happens if you call rc.exe directly in your command prompt ?

If not found, then search your hard drive for it.

[ravi2k18]

hi @SGaist

As I did not have rc.exe in my system

I had to reinstall(Modify) VS 2015 using offline installer by selecting

            Windows and Web Development -> Universal Windows App Development Tools -> Tools (1.4.1) and Windows 10 SDK (10.0.14393) 

Once done I do not see above error on nmake and my compilation went successful.
However running the generated executable helloworld.exe I get below run-time error

   The Application was Unable to Start Correctly (0xc000007b)

What could be the cause and fix for this issue?

thanks...

[SGaist]

You have to modify your prompt PATH environment variable to also point to where your Qt dll's can be found.

[aha_1980]

@ravi2k18 said in builing and running qt project in cli with VS 2015:

0xc000007b

Looks like the program has a 32bit/64bit DLL mismatch. Find more here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28299246/0xc000007b-error

The accepted answer there uses Process Monitor to watch the loaded DLLs