Shiboken - Problem linking to shiboken2.abi3.lib

vberlier

Hi! I'm using Qt 5.15.2 with MinGW on windows and I'm trying to create python bindings for a C++ widget with shiboken2. I have a problem with the last linking step for generating the .pyd file. g++ doesn't find some of the symbols in shiboken2.abi3.lib. Here is the command that CMake is trying to run:

[9/9 6.0/sec] Linking CXX shared module custom_widget.pyd
FAILED: custom_widget.pyd 
cmd.exe /C "cd . && C:\Qt\Tools\mingw810_64\bin\g++.exe -g   -shared -o custom_widget.pyd -Wl,--major-image-version,0,--minor-image-version,0 CMakeFiles/custom_widget.dir/custom_widget_autogen/mocs_compilation.cpp.obj CMakeFiles/custom_widget.dir/custom_widget/custom_widget_module_wrapper.cpp.obj CMakeFiles/custom_widget.dir/custom_widget/customwidget_wrapper.cpp.obj  liblib_custom_widget.dll.a  C:/Users/berli/projects/epita-pfee/PocShiboken/.venv/Lib/site-packages/shiboken2/shiboken2.abi3.lib  C:/Users/berli/projects/epita-pfee/PocShiboken/.venv/Lib/site-packages/PySide2/pyside2.abi3.lib  C:/Users/berli/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python39/libs/python39.lib  C:/Qt/5.15.2/mingw81_64/lib/libQt5Widgets.a  C:/Qt/5.15.2/mingw81_64/lib/libQt5Gui.a  C:/Qt/5.15.2/mingw81_64/lib/libQt5Core.a  -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 && cd ."

And here is what the error looks like:

CMakeFiles/custom_widget.dir/custom_widget/custom_widget_module_wrapper.cpp.obj: In function `_QList_QVariant__CppToPython__QList_QVariant_':
C:\Users\berli\projects\epita-pfee\build-PocShiboken-Desktop_Qt_5_15_2_MinGW_64_bit-Debug/custom_widget/custom_widget_module_wrapper.cpp:64: undefined reference to `Shiboken::Conversions::copyToPython(SbkConverter const*, void const*)'
CMakeFiles/custom_widget.dir/custom_widget/custom_widget_module_wrapper.cpp.obj: In function `_QList_QVariant__PythonToCpp__QList_QVariant_':
C:\Users\berli\projects\epita-pfee\build-PocShiboken-Desktop_Qt_5_15_2_MinGW_64_bit-Debug/custom_widget/custom_widget_module_wrapper.cpp:84: undefined reference to `Shiboken::Conversions::pythonToCppCopy(SbkConverter const*, _object*, void*)'
CMakeFiles/custom_widget.dir/custom_widget/custom_widget_module_wrapper.cpp.obj: In function `is__QList_QVariant__PythonToCpp__QList_QVariant__Convertible':
C:\Users\berli\projects\epita-pfee\build-PocShiboken-Desktop_Qt_5_15_2_MinGW_64_bit-Debug/custom_widget/custom_widget_module_wrapper.cpp:91: undefined reference to `Shiboken::Conversions::convertibleSequenceTypes(SbkConverter const*, _object*)'
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As you can see shiboken2.abi3.lib is part of the link command and appears to be linked in the expected order. To be sure I also checked that the symbols are present in shiboken2.abi3.lib using the microsoft linker link /dump /exports shiboken2.abi3.lib.
I also tried this with the MSVC kit and I have the same issue, only the error message from the microsoft linker is less detailed so I'm using the MinGW kit for the moment.
I'd really like to figure out why g++ doesn't seem to take shiboken2.abi3.lib into account. I can also upload the whole project somewhere if it can help, it's a very simple demo.

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Just a wild guess but I would say that the library was built with MSVC and C++ libraries from MSVC cannot be used with MinGW.

What error did you get with visual studio ?

vberlier

@SGaist Thanks for the suggestion. You were right shiboken2.abi3.lib is probably not compatible with MinGW. It turns out that the error message I got when using the MSVC linker was not the same. With MSVC the problem was that it couldn't link against the c++ DLL containing my custom widget. It's kind of weird but I had to remove SHARED from the add_library options. Now it's working fine.

SGaist

It might be that you are linking to a static library (just a wild guess here).