Trying to build qt 5.15.14 x64 on windows.

james b-s

I'm trying to build qt5.15.14 x64 on windows with msvc2022. I keep getting 32 bit libraries and can't figure out how to build the 64 bit libraries.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64

configure.bat -platform win32-msvc -opensource -release -verbose

Build type: win32-msvc (i386, CPU features: sse sse2)
Compiler: msvc
Configuration: sse2 aesni sse3 ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 avx avx2 avx512f avx512bw avx512cd avx512dq avx512er avx512ifma avx512pf avx512vbmi avx512vl compile_examples f16c largefile precompile_header rdrnd rdseed shani x86SimdAlways shared shared release c++11 c++14 c++17 c++1z concurrent dbus no-pkg-config stl
Build options:
  Mode ................................... release
  Optimize release build for size ........ no
  Building shared libraries .............. yes
  Using C standard ....................... C89
  Using C++ standard ..................... C++17
  Relocatable ............................ yes
  Using precompiled headers .............. yes
  Using LTCG ............................. no
  Target compiler supports:
    SSE .................................. SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4.1 SSE4.2
    AVX .................................. AVX AVX2
    AVX512 ............................... F ER CD PF DQ BW VL IFMA VBMI
    Other x86 ............................ AES F16C RDRAND SHA
  Build parts ............................ libs examples tools
  App store compliance ................... no
Qt modules and options:
  Qt Concurrent .......................... yes
  Qt D-Bus ............................... yes
  Qt D-Bus directly linked to libdbus .... no
  Qt Gui ................................. yes
  Qt Network ............................. yes
  Qt Sql ................................. yes
  Qt Testlib ............................. yes
  Qt Widgets ............................. yes
  Qt Xml ................................. yes
Support enabled for:
  Using pkg-config ....................... no
  udev ................................... no
  Using system zlib ...................... no
  Zstandard support ...................... no
Qt Core:
  DoubleConversion ....................... yes
    Using system DoubleConversion ........ no
  GLib ................................... no
  iconv .................................. no
  ICU .................................... no
  Built-in copy of the MIME database ..... yes
  Tracing backend ........................ <none>
  Logging backends:
    journald ............................. no
    syslog ............................... no
    slog2 ................................ no
  PCRE2 .................................. yes
    Using system PCRE2 ................... no
Qt Network:
  getifaddrs() ........................... no
  IPv6 ifname ............................ no
  libproxy ............................... no
  Schannel ............................... no
  OpenSSL ................................ no
    Qt directly linked to OpenSSL ........ no
  OpenSSL 1.1 ............................ no
  DTLS ................................... no
  OCSP-stapling .......................... no
  SCTP ................................... no
  Use system proxies ..................... yes
  GSSAPI ................................. no
Qt Gui:
  Accessibility .......................... yes
  FreeType ............................... yes
    Using system FreeType ................ no
  HarfBuzz ............................... yes
    Using system HarfBuzz ................ no
  Fontconfig ............................. no
  Image formats:
    GIF .................................. yes
    ICO .................................. yes
    JPEG ................................. yes
      Using system libjpeg ............... no
    PNG .................................. yes
      Using system libpng ................ no
  Text formats:
    HtmlParser ........................... yes
    CssParser ............................ yes
    OdfWriter ............................ yes
    MarkdownReader ....................... yes
      Using system libmd4c ............... no
    MarkdownWriter ....................... yes
  EGL .................................... yes
  OpenVG ................................. no
  OpenGL:
    ANGLE ................................ yes
    Combined ANGLE Library ............... no
    Desktop OpenGL ....................... no
    Dynamic OpenGL ....................... yes
    OpenGL ES 2.0 ........................ no
    OpenGL ES 3.0 ........................ no
    OpenGL ES 3.1 ........................ no
    OpenGL ES 3.2 ........................ no
  Vulkan ................................. no
  Session Management ..................... yes
Features used by QPA backends:
  evdev .................................. no
  libinput ............................... no
  INTEGRITY HID .......................... no
  mtdev .................................. no
  tslib .................................. no
  xkbcommon .............................. no
  X11 specific:
    XLib ................................. no
    XCB Xlib ............................. no
    EGL on X11 ........................... no
    xkbcommon-x11 ........................ no
QPA backends:
  DirectFB ............................... no
  EGLFS .................................. no
  LinuxFB ................................ no
  VNC .................................... no
  Windows:
    Direct 2D ............................ yes
    DirectWrite .......................... yes
    DirectWrite 2 ........................ yes
Qt Sql:
  SQL item models ........................ yes
Qt Widgets:
  GTK+ ................................... no
  Styles ................................. Fusion Windows WindowsVista
Qt PrintSupport:
  CUPS ................................... no
Qt Sql Drivers:
  DB2 (IBM) .............................. no
  InterBase .............................. no
  MySql .................................. no
  OCI (Oracle) ........................... no
  ODBC ................................... yes
  PostgreSQL ............................. no
  SQLite2 ................................ no
  SQLite ................................. yes
    Using system provided SQLite ......... no
  TDS (Sybase) ........................... no
Qt Testlib:
  Tester for item models ................. yes
Serial Port:
  ntddmodm ............................... yes
Qt SerialBus:
  Socket CAN ............................. no
  Socket CAN FD .......................... no
  SerialPort Support ..................... yes
Further Image Formats:
  JasPer ................................. no
  MNG .................................... no
  TIFF ................................... yes
    Using system libtiff ................. no
  WEBP ................................... yes
    Using system libwebp ................. no
Qt QML:
  QML network support .................... yes
  QML debugging and profiling support .... yes
  QML just-in-time compiler .............. yes
  QML sequence object .................... yes
  QML XML http request ................... yes
  QML Locale ............................. yes
Qt QML Models:
  QML list model ......................... yes
  QML delegate model ..................... yes
Qt Quick:
  Direct3D 12 ............................ yes
  AnimatedImage item ..................... yes
  Canvas item ............................ yes
  Support for Qt Quick Designer .......... yes
  Flipable item .......................... yes
  GridView item .......................... yes
  ListView item .......................... yes
  TableView item ......................... yes
  Path support ........................... yes
  PathView item .......................... yes
  Positioner items ....................... yes
  Repeater item .......................... yes
  ShaderEffect item ...................... yes
  Sprite item ............................ yes
QtQuick3D:
  Assimp ................................. yes
  System Assimp .......................... no
Qt Scxml:
  ECMAScript data model for QtScxml ...... yes
Qt Gamepad:
  SDL2 ................................... no
Qt 3D:
  Assimp ................................. yes
  System Assimp .......................... no
  Output Qt3D GL traces .................. no
  Use SSE2 instructions .................. no
  Use AVX2 instructions .................. no
  Aspects:
    Render aspect ........................ yes
    Input aspect ......................... yes
    Logic aspect ......................... yes
    Animation aspect ..................... yes
    Extras aspect ........................ yes
Qt 3D Renderers:
  OpenGL Renderer ........................ yes
  RHI Renderer ........................... no
Qt 3D GeometryLoaders:
  Autodesk FBX ........................... no
Qt Wayland Client ........................ no
Qt Wayland Compositor .................... no
Qt Bluetooth:
  BlueZ .................................. no
  BlueZ Low Energy ....................... no
  Linux Crypto API ....................... no
  Native Win32 Bluetooth ................. no
  WinRT Bluetooth API (desktop & UWP) .... yes
  WinRT advanced bluetooth low energy API (desktop & UWP) . yes
Qt Sensors:
  sensorfw ............................... no
Qt Quick Controls 2:
  Styles ................................. Default Fusion Imagine Material Universal
Qt Quick Templates 2:
  Hover support .......................... yes
  Multi-touch support .................... yes
Qt Positioning:
  Gypsy GPS Daemon ....................... no
  WinRT Geolocation API .................. yes
Qt Location:
  Qt.labs.location experimental QML plugin . no
  Geoservice plugins:
    OpenStreetMap ........................ yes
    HERE ................................. yes
    Esri ................................. yes
    Mapbox ............................... yes
    MapboxGL ............................. no
    Itemsoverlay ......................... yes
QtXmlPatterns:
  XML schema support ..................... yes
Qt Multimedia:
  ALSA ................................... no
  GStreamer 1.0 .......................... no
  GStreamer 0.10 ......................... no
  Video for Linux ........................ no
  OpenAL ................................. no
  PulseAudio ............................. no
  Resource Policy (libresourceqt5) ....... no
  Windows Audio Services ................. yes
  DirectShow ............................. yes
  Windows Media Foundation ............... yes
Qt TextToSpeech:
  Flite .................................. no
  Flite with ALSA ........................ no
  Speech Dispatcher ...................... no
Qt Tools:
  Qt Assistant ........................... yes
  Qt Designer ............................ yes
  Qt Distance Field Generator ............ yes
  kmap2qmap .............................. yes
  Qt Linguist ............................ yes
  Mac Deployment Tool .................... no
  makeqpf ................................ yes
  pixeltool .............................. yes
  qdbus .................................. yes
  qev .................................... yes
  Qt Attributions Scanner ................ yes
  qtdiag ................................. yes
  qtpaths ................................ yes
  qtplugininfo ........................... yes
  Windows deployment tool ................ yes
  WinRT Runner Tool ...................... no
Qt Tools:
  QDoc ................................... no
Qt WebEngine Build Tools:
  Use System Ninja ....................... yes
  Jumbo Build Merge Limit ................ no
  Developer build ........................ no
  Sanitizer .............................. no

Christian Ehrlicher

You have to open the amd64 x64 visual studio prompt and start over with a clean build dir.

james b-s

Doesn't C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64 do the same thing?

Christian Ehrlicher

Don't know, make sure 'where cl.exe' returns the correct compiler.

james b-s

I'm trying your suggestion, but I don't think it will make a difference. It will take 2 hours before I know.
Where cl gives
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.28.29910\bin\Hostx64\x64\cl.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.28.29910\bin\Hostx86\x86\cl.exe

C:\Qt\5.15>cl -version
Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 19.28.29913 for x64
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

I would think that there would be some switch to tell qt which to build, probably in the configure.bat command line.

I would also expect this to be documented somewhere.

Christian Ehrlicher

Why is also the 32bit compiler in the path? Use the correct visual studio command prompt.

james b-s

when I open the command prompt from within visual studio, I get this
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.34.31933\bin\Hostx86\x86\cl.exe

That doesn't seem any better

I found some stuff online for qt6 (I'm building qt5) that says that this:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64
is the correct way to set the symbols. That's what I was doing. I'm trying the from the visual studio command line, but it will take a while.

james b-s

I'm trying cleaning everything by deleting the directory qt produced (nmake clean doesn't get rid of everything). I restarted everything. where cl only lists the one compiler. cl lists the right compiler. I'll let you know in 2 hours

Christian Ehrlicher

Just take a look in the task manager which cl.exe is used. Or look at QtCore.dll to see if it is a 64bit dll.

james b-s

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james b-s

I have built the release build of Qt, but when I try to use it, I get a fatal program exit when QApplication is called, so now I am trying to build a debug build of Qt to see if I can get more information.

My configure command looks like this:
configure.bat -platform win32-msvc -opensource -debug -verbose
The output contains the following:
Mode ................................... debug; optimized tools

The build process creates library files like translator.lib, it does not create translatord.lib.

When I run "nmake install", I get
NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'C:\Qt\5.15\qtbase\lib\translatord.lib'

There are some debug libraries in that directory, built today. There are also translator.prl and translatord.prl. Also built today

Christian Ehrlicher

Simply create debug and release in one build directory... - see configure.bat --help --> -debug-and-release

james b-s

I'm running the nmake command again, capturing the output. It seems to have built translatord.lib this time, but I do see a lot of errors like this

WARNING: Failure to find: qt5qmld_metatypes.json
WARNING: Failure to find: C:/Qt/5.15/qtdeclarative/src/3rdparty/masm/assembler/.h
WARNING: Failure to find: C:/Qt/5.15/qtdeclarative/src/3rdparty/masm/wtf/.h
WARNING: Failure to find: C:/Qt/5.15/qtdeclarative/src/qml/qt5qmld_metatypes.json
WARNING: Failure to find: C:/Qt/5.15/qtdeclarative/src/3rdparty/masm/assembler/.h
WARNING: Failure to find: C:/Qt/5.15/qtdeclarative/src/3rdparty/masm/wtf/.h
Cannot open foreign types file C:/Qt/Qt-5.15.14/lib/metatypes/qt5network_metatypes.json
WARNING: Failure to find: qt5qmlmodelsd_metatypes.json
WARNING: Failure to find: C:/Qt/5.15/qtdeclarative/src/qmlmodels/qt5qmlmodelsd_metatypes.json

paangele

James b-s have you succeeded building a 5.15.14 x64 windows msvc2022 build? I have tried the same, and while the build process completes, my build seems unable to run applications..