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What changed with QString::toStdString() in QT6?

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  • C Christian Ehrlicher
    23 Sept 2021, 12:57

    The only difference is the const QString <-> QString now.
    Ste through your debugger with F11 to see that only those two functions are called.

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    Dmitriano
    wrote on 23 Sept 2021, 13:07 last edited by Dmitriano
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    @Christian-Ehrlicher Noticed that my original example works in Release configuration, but does not work in Debug. So probably the difference is that some copying or moving are optimized. Or probably something goes wrong if I link a debug version of the app with a release version of QT.

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    • D Dmitriano
      23 Sept 2021, 13:07

      @Christian-Ehrlicher Noticed that my original example works in Release configuration, but does not work in Debug. So probably the difference is that some copying or moving are optimized. Or probably something goes wrong if I link a debug version of the app with a release version of QT.

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      wrote on 23 Sept 2021, 14:20 last edited by
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      @Dmitriano said in What changed with QString::toStdString() in QT6?:

      if I link a debug version of the app with a release version of QT.

      You must not mix debug and release libraries on windows since they use a different MSVCRT

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      • C Christian Ehrlicher
        23 Sept 2021, 14:20

        @Dmitriano said in What changed with QString::toStdString() in QT6?:

        if I link a debug version of the app with a release version of QT.

        You must not mix debug and release libraries on windows since they use a different MSVCRT

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        JonB
        wrote on 23 Sept 2021, 14:51 last edited by JonB
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        @Christian-Ehrlicher said in What changed with QString::toStdString() in QT6?:

        You must not mix debug and release libraries on windows since they use a different MSVCRT

        I suggested a library mismatch might be at issue earlier, but seemed to be told this was causing "To avoid starting a battle"....

        I assume the OP means he has two quite separate builds of everything, with different, consistent compilation/linkage flags used throughout, and is not mixing anything debug with release at all.....

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          JonB
          wrote on 23 Sept 2021, 15:03 last edited by
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          @Dmitriano
          When I said earlier about Googling qstring tostdstring crash and the stackoverflow post, there is https://stackoverflow.com/a/15611383/489865

          Your Qt DLLs need to be compiled with STL support and exactly the same C-Runtime Library as your code. It looks as though you are using two different CRTs at the same time, which would destroy the objects created on one heap by Qt into the heap used by your program.

          Check the DLL Usage with the Dependency Walker!

          That is what I had in mind, about the "same C-Runtime Library".

          Do you have the Windows Dependency Walker? It's a useful tool! If you run it on the misbehaving executable, check carefully for all the dependent libraries. If you see both debug and non-debug versions of things like MSVCRT involved, you have a problem! Everything, including your Qt libraries, must be compiled either for release or for debug, no mixture. Might that be the situation you are in?

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            23 Sept 2021, 15:03

            @Dmitriano
            When I said earlier about Googling qstring tostdstring crash and the stackoverflow post, there is https://stackoverflow.com/a/15611383/489865

            Your Qt DLLs need to be compiled with STL support and exactly the same C-Runtime Library as your code. It looks as though you are using two different CRTs at the same time, which would destroy the objects created on one heap by Qt into the heap used by your program.

            Check the DLL Usage with the Dependency Walker!

            That is what I had in mind, about the "same C-Runtime Library".

            Do you have the Windows Dependency Walker? It's a useful tool! If you run it on the misbehaving executable, check carefully for all the dependent libraries. If you see both debug and non-debug versions of things like MSVCRT involved, you have a problem! Everything, including your Qt libraries, must be compiled either for release or for debug, no mixture. Might that be the situation you are in?

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            wrote on 23 Sept 2021, 23:38 last edited by
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            @JonB said in What changed with QString::toStdString() in QT6?:

            Everything, including your Qt libraries, must be compiled either for release or for debug, no mixture. Might that be the situation you are in?

            Yes, it is exactly the situation I was in. And I was in the same situation with QT5, but it did not crash.

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            • D Dmitriano
              23 Sept 2021, 23:38

              @JonB said in What changed with QString::toStdString() in QT6?:

              Everything, including your Qt libraries, must be compiled either for release or for debug, no mixture. Might that be the situation you are in?

              Yes, it is exactly the situation I was in. And I was in the same situation with QT5, but it did not crash.

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              wrote on 24 Sept 2021, 05:35 last edited by
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              @Dmitriano said in What changed with QString::toStdString() in QT6?:

              And I was in the same situation with QT5, but it did not crash.

              Point taken, but that's a bit hit-or-miss. But since you have closed this thread I guess you are saying that sticking to release- or debug-only for everything has resolved your problem?

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                SimonSchroeder
                wrote on 24 Sept 2021, 06:22 last edited by
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                I had many problems with this myself when we started converting from wxWidgets to Qt. In that case it was some library mismatches. (In our case it was dynamic and static linking instead of release and debug.) Sometimes it has also to do with C++11 and C++98 being mixed.

                However, our solution was to call str.toUtf8().data(). This has always worked. Also, it ensures that output, writing to text files, etc. is always UTF8 (which I believe it will not if using str.toStdString()). In addition on Windows (and only Windows!!) we call setlocale(LC_ALL, ".UTF8"); right at the beginning of main. This lets Windows know that all output on std::cout is actually UTF8.

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                • J JonB
                  24 Sept 2021, 05:35

                  @Dmitriano said in What changed with QString::toStdString() in QT6?:

                  And I was in the same situation with QT5, but it did not crash.

                  Point taken, but that's a bit hit-or-miss. But since you have closed this thread I guess you are saying that sticking to release- or debug-only for everything has resolved your problem?

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                  Dmitriano
                  wrote on 25 Sept 2021, 16:31 last edited by
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                  @JonB said in What changed with QString::toStdString() in QT6?:

                  I guess you are saying that sticking to release- or debug-only for everything has resolved your problem?

                  Yes, I built release and debug versions of QT6.2RC1. If I build debug app with debug QT and release app with release QT it does not crash.

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                    Xinlong
                    wrote on 16 Dec 2023, 16:18 last edited by
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                    I had a similar problem and it tuned out that I wrongly set the Runtime Library to be /MTd for the release mode, and it worked ok after I changed it back to /MD in Visual Stuidio 2019.

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                    • X Xinlong
                      16 Dec 2023, 16:18

                      I had a similar problem and it tuned out that I wrongly set the Runtime Library to be /MTd for the release mode, and it worked ok after I changed it back to /MD in Visual Stuidio 2019.

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                      Christian Ehrlicher
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                      wrote on 16 Dec 2023, 17:22 last edited by
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                      @Xinlong Yes, you can not mix different msvc runtimes in one executable.

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