Qt 5.11.3 works fine, but Qt 5.12.1 throws LINKER errors

hskoglund

Hi, just to check, what version of MSVC did you use for Qt 5.11.3 (when the linking worked), was it MSVC 2017 32-bit or MSVC 2017 64-bit?

m3g1dd

@hskoglund

Hi! Thanks for follow up :)

For Qt 5.11.3 I'm using MSVC2017_64bit which works fine. My build directories are:

build-application-Desktop_Qt_5_11_3_MSVC2017_64bit-Debug
build-application-Desktop_Qt_5_11_3_MSVC2017_64bit-Release
build-application-Desktop_Qt_5_12_1_MSVC2017_64bit-Debug

m3g1dd

New observation: I installed Qt5.12.0 and my application compiles/links/runs just fine. I'm going to re-install Qt5.12.1 ... I have a feeling maybe re-installing it will resolve linker errors ... lets see ...

m3g1dd

I reinstalled Qt 5.12.1 but it still throws the above-mentioned linker error. So basically, my observation is:

On Windows, Qt 5.11.3 and 5.12.0 work fine
On Windows, Qt 5.12.1 throws linker error
On Linux openSUSE Leap 15, Qt 5.12.1 works fine

hskoglund

Hmm, just to check again: release builds and debug builds on 5.12.0 MSVC 2017 links fine and dandy, but the same linker throws a tantrum both for release and debug builds on 5.12.1 MSVC 2017.

Also, could do you a similar dumpbin on a 5.12.0 debug built netlib.lib as you did above for a 5.12.1 debug build?

m3g1dd

@hskoglund

Let me double-check everything again ... I'll give an update ...

m3g1dd

@hskoglund

I double-checked to make sure nothing is missed:

Qt_5_12_0_MSVC2017_64bit-Debug links fine and application runs :)
Qt_5_12_0_MSVC2017_64bit-Release links fine and application runs :)
Qt_5_12_1_MSVC2017_64bit-Debug throws:

main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) void __cdecl NetLibrary::registerNetLibraryQML(void)" (_imp?registerNetLibraryQML@NetLibrary@@YAXXZ) referenced in function main

Qt_5_12_1_MSVC2017_64bit-Release throws:

main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) void __cdecl NetLibrary::registerNetLibraryQML(void)" (_imp?registerNetLibraryQML@NetLibrary@@YAXXZ) referenced in function main

Also, here is the dumpbin for netlib.lib on Qt_5_12_0_MSVC2017_64bit-Debug which links fine and works nice:

C:\Users\me\repos\build-application-Desktop_Qt_5_12_0_MSVC2017_64bit-Debug\netlib\debug>dumpbin /linkermember netlib.lib
Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 14.15.26730.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.


Dump of file netlib.lib

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hskoglund

Hi, the dumpbin for 5.12.1 is identical to 5.12.0. Seems netlib.lib is the innocent guy here. So it must be the client program, i.e. your main.cpp, perhaps some kind of visibility problem. We're running out of options so I'm thinking you could try renaming your library to something less generic/vanilla (there are many other libraries called netlib.xxx out there, perhaps one of them has snuck into in 5.12.1)

So say instead of netlib you could call it m3gnetlib (prefixing with half of your username).
That would mean changing the .pro file, the .h and .cpp files and also the #define from NETLIBSHARED_EXPORT to M3GNETLIBSHARED_EXPORT.

I remember running into similar inexplicable issues in the past, and renaming the files helped (sometimes :-)

mchinand

In 5.12.1, default Windows library paths (e.g., Windows Kits) were added to the search path in qmake's makefile generator, but were added before the user-specified paths instead of after. There's already a commit to fix this and should be in 5.12.3. See this bugreport

hskoglund

Thanks @mchinand!

In Qt 5.12.1 @m3g1dd 's netlib.lib gets muscled out by the big wheels at Microsoft, when I do a dir of the Windows Kits on my C: indeed there's a netlib.lib there. And that's what the linker tries to link with.

So either as I mentioned above go do that renaming, or wait for 5.12.3.

m3g1dd

@hskoglund

Hi, Thanks! Problem got resolved by renaming the netlib library to netagentlib, and Qt 5.12.1 builds and runs the application without any issue.

These are all my code changes to rename the library:

On my netlib library project file i.e. netlib.pro file I changed:

-TARGET = netlib
+TARGET = netagentlib

Also, on my application executable project *.pro file I replaced these lines:

win32:CONFIG(release, debug|release): LIBS += -L$$OUT_PWD/../netlib/release/ -lnetlib
else:win32:CONFIG(debug, debug|release): LIBS += -L$$OUT_PWD/../netlib/debug/ -lnetlib
else:unix: LIBS += -L$$OUT_PWD/../netlib/ -lnetlib

with these lines:

win32:CONFIG(release, debug|release): LIBS += -L$$OUT_PWD/../netlib/release/ -lnetagentlib
else:win32:CONFIG(debug, debug|release): LIBS += -L$$OUT_PWD/../netlib/debug/ -lnetagentlib
else:unix: LIBS += -L$$OUT_PWD/../netlib/ -lnetagentlib