Getting a .pro file to work for both Visual Studio 2008 and Qt Creator

goetz

I have no idea about the actual problem. It's hard to debug without the complete files (what's in SalesCenter.pri and in qmlapplicationviewer/qmlapplicationviewer.pri?)

Though, I spotted some small glitches in the project file:

UI_DIR and RCC_DIR should be set with "=" not, appended to with "+="n
There is a typo in "DEFINES += QT_LARGEILE_SUPPORT" (add an F for FILE)

Also, you should capsulate the platform dependent portions in their own scope.

scarleton

Wow, totally missed the existence of qmlapplicationviewer.pri. You will find that below along with the SalesCenter.pri.

The SalesCenter.pri simply lists all the files which make up the C++ side of the application. It is a vs-addin concept, there is menu option to update the pri after adding or removing files via Visual Studio.

I made the two corrections you pointed out and no change, VS2008 runs fine, Qt Creator comes up with a blank screen and an error message:

file:///D:/MSDev/PhotoParata/Qt/Debug/qml/SalesCenter/main.qml: File not found

The folders layout is the default layout that Qt Creator created for me:

D:MSDevPhotoParataQtSalesCenter is the <solution folder> where the Qt's .pro and Visual Studio .vcproj/.sln files are found.

All the qml files are in <solution folder>\qml\SalesCenter

It looks like Qt Creator is putting the EXE in the wrong folder, it is placing it in <solution folder>..\Debug, where as VS2008 is placing the exe (and object files) in <solution folder>\Debug.

Some how when running the code from with in VS2008, it knows to find the qml files in <solution folder>qmlSalesCenter, where Qt Creator is looking in <solution folder>..\Debug\qml\SalesCenter.

The post is too long, so I will follow up in the next post with the files...

scarleton

qmlapplicationviewer.pri
@# checksum 0xb7ef version 0x2000a
QT += declarative

SOURCES += $$PWD/qmlapplicationviewer.cpp
HEADERS += $$PWD/qmlapplicationviewer.h
INCLUDEPATH += $$PWD

defineTest(minQtVersion) {
maj = $$1
min = $$2
patch = $$3
isEqual(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, $$maj) {
isEqual(QT_MINOR_VERSION, $$min) {
isEqual(QT_PATCH_VERSION, $$patch) {
return(true)
}
greaterThan(QT_PATCH_VERSION, $$patch) {
return(true)
}
}
greaterThan(QT_MINOR_VERSION, $$min) {
return(true)
}
}
return(false)
}

contains(DEFINES, QMLJSDEBUGGER) {
CONFIG(debug, debug|release) {
!minQtVersion(4, 7, 1) {
warning()
warning("Disabling QML debugging:")
warning()
warning("Debugging QML requires the qmljsdebugger library that ships with Qt Creator.")
warning("This library requires Qt 4.7.1 or newer.")
warning()
DEFINES -= QMLJSDEBUGGER
} else:isEmpty(QMLJSDEBUGGER_PATH) {
warning()
warning("Disabling QML debugging:")
warning()
warning("Debugging QML requires the qmljsdebugger library that ships with Qt Creator.")
warning("Please specify its location on the qmake command line, eg")
warning(" qmake -r QMLJSDEBUGGER_PATH=$CREATORDIR/share/qtcreator/qmljsdebugger")
warning()
DEFINES -= QMLJSDEBUGGER
} else {
include($$QMLJSDEBUGGER_PATH/qmljsdebugger-lib.pri)
}
} else {
DEFINES -= QMLJSDEBUGGER
}
}

defineTest(qtcAddDeployment) {
for(deploymentfolder, DEPLOYMENTFOLDERS) {
item = item$${deploymentfolder}
itemsources = $${item}.sources
$$itemsources = $$eval($${deploymentfolder}.source)
itempath = $${item}.path
$$itempath= $$eval($${deploymentfolder}.target)
export($$itemsources)
export($$itempath)
DEPLOYMENT += $$item
}

MAINPROFILEPWD = $$PWD

symbian {
ICON = $${TARGET}.svg
TARGET.EPOCHEAPSIZE = 0x20000 0x2000000
contains(DEFINES, ORIENTATIONLOCK):LIBS += -lavkon -leikcore -lcone
contains(DEFINES, NETWORKACCESS):TARGET.CAPABILITY += NetworkServices
} else:win32 {
copyCommand =
for(deploymentfolder, DEPLOYMENTFOLDERS) {
source = $$MAINPROFILEPWD/$$eval($${deploymentfolder}.source)
source = $$replace(source, /, )
sourcePathSegments = $$split(source, )
target = $$OUT_PWD/$$eval($${deploymentfolder}.target)/$$last(sourcePathSegments)
target = $$replace(target, /, )
!isEqual(source,$$target) {
!isEmpty(copyCommand):copyCommand += &&
copyCommand += $(COPY_DIR) "$$source" "$$target"
}
}
!isEmpty(copyCommand) {
copyCommand = echo Copying application data... && $$copyCommand
copydeploymentfolders.commands = $$copyCommand
first.depends = $(first) copydeploymentfolders
export(first.depends)
export(copydeploymentfolders.commands)
QMAKE_EXTRA_TARGETS += first copydeploymentfolders
}
} else:unix {
maemo5 {
installPrefix = /opt/usr
desktopfile.path = /usr/share/applications/hildon
} else {
installPrefix = /usr
desktopfile.path = /usr/share/applications
copyCommand =
for(deploymentfolder, DEPLOYMENTFOLDERS) {
source = $$MAINPROFILEPWD/$$eval($${deploymentfolder}.source)
source = $$replace(source, , /)
macx {
target = $$OUT_PWD/$${TARGET}.app/Contents/Resources/$$eval($${deploymentfolder}.target)
} else {
target = $$OUT_PWD/$$eval($${deploymentfolder}.target)
}
target = $$replace(target, , /)
sourcePathSegments = $$split(source, /)
targetFullPath = $$target/$$last(sourcePathSegments)
!isEqual(source,$$targetFullPath) {
!isEmpty(copyCommand):copyCommand += &&
copyCommand += $(MKDIR) "$$target"
copyCommand += && $(COPY_DIR) "$$source" "$$target"
}
}
!isEmpty(copyCommand) {
copyCommand = echo Copying application data... && $$copyCommand
copydeploymentfolders.commands = $$copyCommand
first.depends = $(first) copydeploymentfolders
export(first.depends)
export(copydeploymentfolders.commands)
QMAKE_EXTRA_TARGETS += first copydeploymentfolders
}
}
for(deploymentfolder, DEPLOYMENTFOLDERS) {
item = item$${deploymentfolder}
itemfiles = $${item}.files
$$itemfiles = $$eval($${deploymentfolder}.source)
itempath = $${item}.path
$$itempath = $${installPrefix}/share/$${TARGET}/$$eval($${deploymentfolder}.target)
export($$itemfiles)
export($$itempath)
INSTALLS += $$item
}
icon.files = $${TARGET}.png
icon.path = /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps
desktopfile.files = $${TARGET}.desktop
target.path = $${installPrefix}/bin
export(icon.files)
export(icon.path)
export(desktopfile.files)
export(desktopfile.path)
export(target.path)
INSTALLS += desktopfile icon target
}

export (ICON)
export (INSTALLS)
export (DEPLOYMENT)
export (TARGET.EPOCHEAPSIZE)
export (TARGET.CAPABILITY)
export (LIBS)
export (QMAKE_EXTRA_TARGETS)
}
@

SalesCenter.pri
@# ----------------------------------------------------

This file is generated by the Qt Visual Studio Add-in.

------------------------------------------------------

HEADERS +=
./DBManager.h
./FavoriteSqlModel.h
./stdafx.h
./StationManager.h
./SystemSettings.h

SOURCES +=
./DBManager.cpp
./FavoriteSqlModel.cpp
./main.cpp
./stdafx.cpp
./StationManager.cpp
./SystemSettings.cpp

OTHER_FILES +=
@

goetz

[quote author="scarleton" date="1296431511"]Wow, totally missed the existence of qmlapplicationviewer.pri. You will find that below along with the SalesCenter.pri.