New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop."

IsaacPrkr

@jsulm It's from a git repository. I just imported the file and that was it. I think that's where I've gone wrong however but I'm not sure how I fix it. Is there another way of importing the file so that it builds correctly?

Axel Spoerl

"No rule to make target...." usually tells you that the configuring has failed and your compiler doesn't know what to do at all. But that's poking around in the fog. To help we'd need more info.

Which Qt version are you using?
Is it CMake or QMake?
Can you post the CMakeLists.txt or the .pro file respectively?
Does the "Compile Output" tab say anything?

jsulm

@IsaacPrkr said in New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop.":

I just imported the file and that was it

What file?
Is ther a *.pro or CMakeLists.txt file?

IsaacPrkr

@jsulm I imported a file named gps from a git repo which contains files inside such as data, headers, src, and tests. Inside data there is data of gps locations, inside headers there are the header programs, inside src is the main cpp programs, and tests is boost tests.

Outside of these subfiles when you open just the gps file which is the main file I downloaded from the git repo it has a bunch of other files created when I loaded it into qt for the first time. And one of them is a .pro file which I can't open and dont see in qt.

jsulm

@IsaacPrkr Please post a link to the Git repo.
You need to load the project file in QtCreator. QtCreator supports Qmake (*.pro) and CMake (CMakeLists.txt).

jsulm

@IsaacPrkr said in New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop.":

And one of them is a .pro file which I can't open and dont see in qt

Why can't you open it? What happens?

IsaacPrkr

@jsulm Do you want the https link? If it's easier we can message on a alternative platform like Discord if that's better to resolve things.

Thank you for the help I really do appreciate it.

IsaacPrkr

@jsulm I can't open it it just says I dont have the software to open it that's all.

jsulm

@IsaacPrkr said in New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop.":

Do you want the https link?

Yes, the link to the repo.

How exactly are you trying to open the pro file?
Do this:

Open QtCreator
Go to "File/Open File or Project..."
Navigate to the project and select the pro file
What exactly happens now?

IsaacPrkr

@jsulm it says could not display 'gps.pro' there is no application for "qt qmake profiles".

The link is here: https://olympuss.ntu.ac.uk/N0923887/gps.git

It's gonna be password protected most likely however.

When I open the .pro file in qt it comes up with configure project. And it says no suitable kits found and I can't seem to do anything the configure project is grayed out.

jsulm

@IsaacPrkr said in New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop.":

When I open the .pro file in qt it comes up with configure project. And it says no suitable kits found

Did you also install at least one Qt version?
QtCreator is an IDE, you also need Qt if you want to build a Qt application.

IsaacPrkr

@jsulm
When installing all I did was enter
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libclang-common-8-dev qt5-default qtcreator ssh-askpass

In the terminal. Is this wrong?

jsulm

@IsaacPrkr Make sure qt5-qmake is also installed.
And check whether you have any properly configured Kit in QtCreator.

IsaacPrkr

@jsulm I've installed qt5-qmake. And how do I go check whether I have a properly configured kit?

jsulm

@IsaacPrkr In QtCreator go to "Tools/Options.../Kits" and check whether there is at least one Kit

IsaacPrkr

@jsulm There is only options that say Auto-detected and Manual.

jsulm

@IsaacPrkr said in New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop.":

There is only options that say Auto-detected and Manual

But are there any Kits, either in manual or auto detected section?
If there are no Kits then that explains your problem. In this case add a Kit manually - first add your Qt in "Qt Versions" tab (you ) and then a Kit.

IsaacPrkr

@jsulm When you say "add your qt in qt versions tab (you)" i went in the tab and clicked add and it just came up with my files. Do I add the project file into that?

jsulm

@IsaacPrkr said in New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop.":

Do I add the project file into that?

No, this has nothing to do with any projects!
This is used to manage different Qt versions in QtCreator, as QtCreator can support many Qt versions.

"and it just came up with my files" - I don't know what this means. To add a Qt version you need to navigate to the folder containing qmake of that Qt version (in your case /usr/bin) and select qmake.

See:

IsaacPrkr

@jsulm It just opens the file explorer in the downloads tab. There is no /usr/bin for me anywhere I can find.