Qt Creator not compiling on Windows 10

Christian Ehrlicher

Your error is from Windows, your ls from Linux.

AxelVienna

You are right, Christian.
Here is Windows:

W:\>cd WhiteDolphin\WhiteDolphinV2\WhiteDolphin\WhiteGUI

W:\WhiteDolphin\WhiteDolphinV2\WhiteDolphin\WhiteGUI>dir ..\WhiteEngine\whiteapi.cpp
 Datenträger in Laufwerk W: ist userhomes
 Volumeseriennummer: E7CE-5580

 Verzeichnis von W:\WhiteDolphin\WhiteDolphinV2\WhiteDolphin\WhiteEngine

17.07.2021  07:26            16.140 whiteapi.cpp
               1 Datei(en),         16.140 Bytes
               0 Verzeichnis(se), 11.005.326.700.544 Bytes frei

W:\WhiteDolphin\WhiteDolphinV2\WhiteDolphin\WhiteGUI>

Christian Ehrlicher

And from where do you call make? Since your build dir is not your source dir I would guess it's wrong.
Use absolute paths, use your code into the current dir or create a separate library with a separate pro file but don't use relative paths for sources.

AxelVienna

Thanks Christian - good idea, done.
I have just copied the entire tree into a new directory and put all external sources (the ones with relative paths) into the project directory. I have removed the SOURCES and HEADERS section from the .pro file and added every file manually through the "add existing file" function.
The SOUCRES section reads as follows (HEADER section is identical except for .h instead of .cpp).

SOURCES += \
    whiteapi.cpp \
    whitedata.cpp \
    whitefile.cpp \
    whitejson.cpp \
    whitelog.cpp \
    whiterequest.cpp \
    whitestatus.cpp \
    whitetimer.cpp \
    whitetools.cpp \
    whitetranslator.cpp \
    apikey.cpp \
    apiwizard.cpp \
    detailam.cpp \
    detailar.cpp \
    detailrender.cpp \
    importfile.cpp \
    main.cpp \
    models.cpp \
    notyfier.cpp \
    whitebar.cpp \
    whiteclient.cpp \
    whiteconfig.cpp \
    whitegui.cpp \
    whitelogin.cpp \
    whitetimerpopup.cpp \
    whiteview.cpp

Error message stays the same, save for absolute paths being used now.

g++: error: WINDOWS -IC:/Users/User/Documents/WhiteGUI -I. -I../../../Win64/include -I../WhiteEngine -I../WhiteEngine -I../WhiteEngine -I../WhiteEngine -IC:/Qt/6.1.2/mingw81_64/include -IC:/Qt/6.1.2/mingw81_64/include/QtQuickControls2 -IC:/Qt/6.1.2/mingw81_64/include/QtQuick -IC:/Qt/6.1.2/mingw81_64/include/QtOpenGL -IC:/Qt/6.1.2/mingw81_64/include/QtWidgets -IC:/Qt/6.1.2/mingw81_64/include/QtGui -IC:/Qt/6.1.2/mingw81_64/include/QtQmlModels -IC:/Qt/6.1.2/mingw81_64/include/QtQml -IC:/Qt/6.1.2/mingw81_64/include/QtNetwork -IC:/Qt/6.1.2/mingw81_64/include/QtCore -Idebug -I. -IC:/VulkanSDK/1.0.51.0/Include -IC:/Qt/6.1.2/mingw81_64/mkspecs/win32-g++  -o debug\whiteapi.o C:\Users\User\Documents\WhiteGUI\whiteapi.cpp: No such file or directory
g++: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.

The message clearly seems misleading as the file claimed to be missing is actually existing:

C:\Users\User\Documents\WhiteGUI>dir whiteapi.cpp
 Datenträger in Laufwerk C: ist Windows
 Volumeseriennummer: B2A1-AA19

 Verzeichnis von C:\Users\User\Documents\WhiteGUI

17.07.2021  07:26            16.140 whiteapi.cpp
               1 Datei(en),         16.140 Bytes
               0 Verzeichnis(se), 160.223.092.736 Bytes frei

C:\Users\User\Documents\WhiteGUI>

JonB

@AxelVienna
I could be wrong, but I am not 100% convinced that error message is saying quite what you think it is, from the way it is written. (It actually looks to me as though the whole long command line is being passed/treated as naming one file...?)

Your error message starts:

g++: error: WINDOWS -IC:/Users/User/Documents/WhiteGUI ...

Where is that plain word WINDOWS at the beginning coming from?

P.S.
If you open a Command Prompt and try, say,

gcc "WINDOWS -IC:/Users/User/Documents/WhiteGUI -o debug\whiteapi.o C:\Users\User\Documents\WhiteGUI\whiteapi.cpp"

Note the quoting I have put in. How does the error message read for this? (Interested to see whether it echoes this whole line back with : No such file or directory at the end?)

AxelVienna

WINDOWS results from a define in the build target.

DEFINES+=WINDOWS

JonB

@AxelVienna
I don't know how that causes gcc WINDOWS ..., which does not look right to me....

In any case, I put in a P.S. for you to try, to see whether my suspicion is correct or mistaken?

Christian Ehrlicher

@AxelVienna said in Qt Creator not compiling on Windows 10:

DEFINES+=WINDOWS

This is not in your pro file you posted above

@JonB : good catch

AxelVienna

You are right, it is not in the .pro file. It is set in the project settings for the compile kit under “additional commands”. I use that excessively to trigger conditional code for different targets.
As your suggested command line input delivers the same error, I will give it a try and eliminate it.

KroMignon

@AxelVienna said in Qt Creator not compiling on Windows 10:

WINDOWS results from a define in the build target.
DEFINES+=WINDOWS

I can not find this in the project file from your first post.
But in this project, you have included 3 times APIKeyGUI.ui in FORMS and added 4 times ../WhiteEngine in INCLUDEPATH.

Perhaps you should first cleanup the pro file and remove redundant informations?

Christian Ehrlicher

@AxelVienna said in Qt Creator not compiling on Windows 10:

It is set in the project settings for the compile kit under “additional commands”.

Why? Why do you think when you enter something there QtCreator magically knows that it should be a define and be prefixed with '-DWINDOWS'?
No need for such a define at all - WIN32 is defined by default with every windows compiler.

AxelVienna

Well, as I said in the very beginning: Most likely, I have made a stupid configuration mistake.
Thanks to all for pointing me to the right spot.