Errors when building QT 4.7.3 from source

[Hedge]

I'm trying to build QT (1.1 SDK) from source but a lot of errors happen during compilation.

What I did:
@set PATH=C:QtSDKmingwbin
configure.exe -platform win32-g++ -qconfig minimal > C:file.txt@

This is the content of file.txt afterwards
@
This is the Qt for Windows Open Source Edition.

Environment:

  C:QtSDKmingwbin

You are licensed to use this software under the terms of the GNU GPL version 3.You are licensed to use this software under the terms of the Lesser GNU LGPL version 2.1.
See C:/QtSDK/QtSources/4.7.33

or C:/QtSDK/QtSources/4.7.3L

Configuration:
minimal-config
build_all

debug

Qt Configuration:
release
debug
zlib
png
accessibility
qt3support
opengl
s60
ipv6
script
scripttools
xmlpatterns
phonon
phonon-backend
multimedia
audio-backend
declarative
native-gestures
svg
minimal-config

QMAKESPEC...................win32-g++ (commandline)
Architecture................windows
Maketool....................mingw32-make
Debug symbols...............yes
Link Time Code Generation...no
Accessibility support.......yes
STL support.................yes
Exception support...........yes
RTTI support................yes
MMX support.................yes
3DNOW support...............yes
SSE support.................yes
SSE2 support................yes
IWMMXT support..............no
OpenGL support..............yes
OpenVG support..............no
OpenSSL support.............no
QtDBus support..............no
QtXmlPatterns support.......yes
Phonon support..............yes
QtMultimedia support........yes
WebKit support..............yes
Declarative support.........yes
Declarative debugging.......yes
QtScript support............yes
QtScriptTools support.......yes
Graphics System.............raster
Qt3 compatibility...........yes

Third Party Libraries:
ZLIB support............qt
GIF support.............plugin
TIFF support............plugin
JPEG support............plugin
PNG support.............yes
MNG support.............plugin
FreeType support........no

Styles:
Windows.................yes
Windows XP..............yes
Windows Vista...........yes
Plastique...............yes
Cleanlooks..............yes
Motif...................yes
CDE.....................yes
Windows CE..............no
Windows Mobile..........no
S60.....................no

Sql Drivers:
ODBC....................no
MySQL...................no
OCI.....................no
PostgreSQL..............no
TDS.....................no
DB2.....................no
SQLite..................plugin (qt)
SQLite2.................no
InterBase...............no

Sources are in..............C:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3
Build is done in............C:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3
Install prefix..............C:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3
Headers installed to........C:/QtSDK/QtSources/4.7.3/include
Libraries installed to......C:/QtSDK/QtSources/4.7.3/lib
Plugins installed to........C:/QtSDK/QtSources/4.7.3/plugins
Imports installed to........C:/QtSDK/QtSources/4.7.3/imports
Binaries installed to.......C:/QtSDK/QtSources/4.7.3/bin
Docs installed to...........C:/QtSDK/QtSources/4.7.3/doc
Data installed to...........C:/QtSDK/QtSources/4.7.3
Translations installed to...C:/QtSDK/QtSources/4.7.3/translations
Examples installed to.......C:/QtSDK/QtSources/4.7.3/examples
Demos installed to..........C:/QtSDK/QtSources/4.7.3/demos

Creating qmake...
g++ -c -oproject.o -O -I. -Igenerators -Igenerators/unix -Igenerators/win32 -Igenerators/mac -Igenerators/symbian -IC:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/include -IC:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/include/QtCore -IC:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/include -IC:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/include/QtCore -IC:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/src/corelib/global -IC:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/src/corelib/xml -IC:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/mkspecs/win32-g++ -IC:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/tools/shared -DQT_NO_TEXTCODEC -DQT_NO_UNICODETABLES -DQT_LITE_COMPONENT -DQT_NO_PCRE -DQT_NODLL -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPRESS -DUNICODE -DHAVE_QCONFIG_CPP -DQT_BUILD_QMAKE -DQT_NO_THREAD -DQT_NO_QOBJECT -DQT_NO_GEOM_VARIANT -DQT_NO_DATASTREAM -DQT_BOOTSTRAPPED -DQLIBRARYINFO_EPOCROOT -DQMAKE_OPENSOURCE_EDITION project.cpp
del project.o main.o makefile.o unixmake.o unixmake2.o mingw_make.o option.o winmakefile.o projectgenerator.o property.o meta.o makefiledeps.o metamakefile.o xmloutput.o pbuilder_pbx.o borland_bmake.o msvc_nmake.o msvc_vcproj.o msvc_vcxproj.o msvc_objectmodel.o msbuild_objectmodel.o symmake.o initprojectdeploy_symbian.o symmake_abld.o symmake_sbsv2.o symbiancommon.o registry.o epocroot.o qbitarray.o qbuffer.o qbytearray.o qcryptographichash.o qvsnprintf.o qbytearraymatcher.o qconfig.o qdatetime.o qdir.o qdiriterator.o qfile.o qtemporaryfile.o qfileinfo.o qabstractfileengine.o qfsfileengine.o qfsfileengine_iterator.o qfsfileengine_win.o qfsfileengine_iterator_win.o qglobal.o qhash.o qiodevice.o qlibraryinfo.o qlist.o qlinkedlist.o qlocale.o qmalloc.o qmap.o qregexp.o qtextcodec.o qutfcodec.o qstring.o qstringlist.o qsystemlibrary.o qtextstream.o quuid.o qvector.o qurl.o qsettings.o qsettings_win.o qvariant.o qmetatype.o qxmlstream.o qxmlutils.o qnumeric.o
g++ -c -oproject.o -O -I. -Igenerators -Igenerators/unix -Igenerators/win32 -Igenerators/mac -Igenerators/symbian -IC:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/include -IC:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/include/QtCore -IC:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/include -IC:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/include/QtCore -IC:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/src/corelib/global -IC:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/src/corelib/xml -IC:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/mkspecs/win32-g++ -IC:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/tools/shared -DQT_NO_TEXTCODEC -DQT_NO_UNICODETABLES -DQT_LITE_COMPONENT -DQT_NO_PCRE -DQT_NODLL -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPRESS -DUNICODE -DHAVE_QCONFIG_CPP -DQT_BUILD_QMAKE -DQT_NO_THREAD -DQT_NO_QOBJECT -DQT_NO_GEOM_VARIANT -DQT_NO_DATASTREAM -DQT_BOOTSTRAPPED -DQLIBRARYINFO_EPOCROOT -DQMAKE_OPENSOURCE_EDITION project.cpp
Building qmake failed, return code 2
@

[Hedge]

These are some of the errors:

@
In file included from project.cpp:42:
project.h:45:25: error: qstringlist.h: No such file or directory
project.h:46:25: error: qtextstream.h: No such file or directory
project.h:47:21: error: qstring.h: No such file or directory
project.h:48:20: error: qstack.h: No such file or directory
project.h:49:18: error: qmap.h: No such file or directory
project.h:50:23: error: qmetatype.h: No such file or directory
In file included from property.h:45,
from project.cpp:43:
C:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/src/corelib/global/qglobal.h:62:28: error: QtCore/qconf
ig.h: No such file or directory
C:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/src/corelib/global/qglobal.h:1173:31: error: QtCore/qfe
atures.h: No such file or directory
In file included from project.cpp:44:
option.h:48:19: error: qfile.h: No such file or directory
In file included from project.cpp:45:
cachekeys.h:49:23: error: qfileinfo.h: No such file or directory
cachekeys.h:50:19: error: qhash.h: No such file or directory
In file included from project.cpp:46:
generators/metamakefile.h:47:19: error: qlist.h: No such file or directory
project.cpp:48:23: error: qdatetime.h: No such file or directory
project.cpp:51:18: error: qdir.h: No such file or directory
project.cpp:52:21: error: qregexp.h: No such file or directory
project.cpp:56:20: error: qdebug.h: No such file or directory
In file included from project.cpp:67:
C:QtSDKQtSources4.7.3/tools/shared/symbian/epocroot_p.h:56:28: error: QtCore/
qstring.h: No such file or directory
In file included from project.cpp:42:
project.h:54: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before
'class'
project.h:69: error: 'uint' does not name a type
project.h:75: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'QStack' with no type
project.h:75: error: expected ';' before '<' token
project.h:76: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'QStack' with no type
project.h:76: error: expected ';' before '<' token
project.h:79: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'QMap' with no type
project.h:79: error: expected ';' before '<' token
project.h:84: error: 'QString' does not name a type
project.h:85: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'QMakeProperty' with no type

project.h:85: error: expected ';' before '' token
project.h:87: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'QMap' with no type
project.h:87: error: expected ';' before '<' token
project.h:88: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'QString' with no type
project.h:88: error: expected ',' or '...' before '&' token
project.h:103: error: 'QString' has not been declared
project.h:103: error: 'uchar' has not been declared
project.h:103: error: 'QMap' has not been declared
project.h:103: error: expected ',' or '...' before '<' token
project.h:105: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'QStringList' with no type
project.h:105: error: expected ',' or '...' before '&' token
project.h:106: error: 'QString' has not been declared
project.h:106: error: 'QMap' has not been declared
project.h:106: error: expected ',' or '...' before '<' token
project.h:107: error: 'QStringList' does not name a type
project.h:108: error: 'QMakeProperty' has not been declared
project.h:108: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'QMap' with no type
project.h:108: error: expected ',' or '...' before '<' token
project.h:109: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'QStringList' with no type
project.h:109: error: expected ';' before '&' token
project.h:114: error: expected ')' before '' token
project.h:115: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'QMap' with no type
project.h:115: error: expected ',' or '...' before '<' token
project.h:116: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'QMap' with no type
project.h:116: error: expected ',' or '...' before '<' token
project.h:117: error: expected ')' before '*' token
project.h:122: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'QString' with no type
project.h:122: error: expected ',' or '...' before '&' token
project.h:122: error: 'bool QMakeProject::parse(int)' cannot be overloaded
project.h:88: error: with 'bool QMakeProject::parse(int)'
project.h:123: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'QString' with no type
project.h:123: error: expected ',' or '...' before '&' token
project.h:124: error: 'uchar' has not been declared
project.h:124: error: 'bool QMakeProject::read(int)' cannot be overloaded
project.h:123: error: with 'bool QMakeProject::read(int)'
project.h:126: error: 'QStringList' does not name a type
project.h:127: error: 'QStringList' does not name a type
project.h:129: error: 'QString' does not name a type
project.h:130: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'QMakeProperty' with no typ
e@

[goetz]

(Re)-Compiling Qt from the sources within the SDK is know to cause problems. If you need a manually compiled version, I recommend to grab the sources from http://qt.nokia.com/downloads and use that one.

[Hedge]

Is qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.2.zip the right one?

[ucomesdag]

You need perl in the path, I had the same issue. Download "activeperl":http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads and your problems will go away ;-)

[goetz]

[quote author="Hedge" date="1303339941"]Is qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.2.zip the right one?
[/quote]

Yes, that's the right one (and the most recent, Qt 4.7.3 has not been released yet).

[Hedge]

ucomesdag:
That helped but there are still 3 or 4 errors:

@header created for C:/QtSDK/QtSources/4.7.3/src/qt3support/widgets/q3whatsthis.h
(2)
header created for C:/QtSDK/QtSources/4.7.3/src/qt3support/widgets/q3widgetstack
.h (2)
header (master) created for Qt3Support
headers.pri file created for Qt3Support
Creating qmake...
g++ -c -oproject.o -O -I. -Igenerators -Igenerators/unix -Igenerators/win32 -Ige
nerators/mac -Igenerators/symbian -IC:\QtSDK\QtSources\4.7.3/include -IC:\QtSDK
QtSources\4.7.3/include/QtCore -IC:\QtSDK\QtSources\4.7.3/include -IC:\QtSDK\QtS
ources\4.7.3/include/QtCore -IC:\QtSDK\QtSources\4.7.3/src/corelib/global -IC:\Q
tSDK\QtSources\4.7.3/src/corelib/xml -IC:\QtSDK\QtSources\4.7.3/mkspecs/win32-g+

• -IC:\QtSDK\QtSources\4.7.3/tools/shared -DQT_NO_TEXTCODEC -DQT_NO_UNICODETABLE
  S -DQT_LITE_COMPONENT -DQT_NO_PCRE -DQT_NODLL -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPRESS -DUNI
  CODE -DHAVE_QCONFIG_CPP -DQT_BUILD_QMAKE -DQT_NO_THREAD -DQT_NO_QOBJECT -DQT_NO_
  GEOM_VARIANT -DQT_NO_DATASTREAM -DQT_BOOTSTRAPPED -DQLIBRARYINFO_EPOCROOT -DQMAK
  E_OPENSOURCE_EDITION project.cpp
  project.cpp: In member function 'QStringList& QMakeProject::values(const QString
  &, QMap<QString, QStringList>&)':
  project.cpp:3004: error: 'class QDateTime' has no member named 'toString'
  mingw32-make: *** [project.o] Error 1
  del project.o main.o makefile.o unixmake.o unixmake2.o mingw_make.o option.o win
  makefile.o projectgenerator.o property.o meta.o makefiledeps.o metamakefile.o xm
  loutput.o pbuilder_pbx.o borland_bmake.o msvc_nmake.o msvc_vcproj.o msvc_vcxproj
  .o msvc_objectmodel.o msbuild_objectmodel.o symmake.o initprojectdeploy_symbian.
  o symmake_abld.o symmake_sbsv2.o symbiancommon.o registry.o epocroot.o qbitarray
  .o qbuffer.o qbytearray.o qcryptographichash.o qvsnprintf.o qbytearraymatcher.o
  qconfig.o qdatetime.o qdir.o qdiriterator.o qfile.o qtemporaryfile.o qfileinfo.o
  qabstractfileengine.o qfsfileengine.o qfsfileengine_iterator.o qfsfileengine_wi
  n.o qfsfileengine_iterator_win.o qglobal.o qhash.o qiodevice.o qlibraryinfo.o ql
  ist.o qlinkedlist.o qlocale.o qmalloc.o qmap.o qregexp.o qtextcodec.o qutfcodec.
  o qstring.o qstringlist.o qsystemlibrary.o qtextstream.o quuid.o qvector.o qurl.
  o qsettings.o qsettings_win.o qvariant.o qmetatype.o qxmlstream.o qxmlutils.o qn
  umeric.o
  C:\QtSDK\QtSources\4.7.3\qmake\project.o konnte nicht gefunden werden
  g++ -c -oproject.o -O -I. -Igenerators -Igenerators/unix -Igenerators/win32 -Ige
  nerators/mac -Igenerators/symbian -IC:\QtSDK\QtSources\4.7.3/include -IC:\QtSDK
  QtSources\4.7.3/include/QtCore -IC:\QtSDK\QtSources\4.7.3/include -IC:\QtSDK\QtS
  ources\4.7.3/include/QtCore -IC:\QtSDK\QtSources\4.7.3/src/corelib/global -IC:\Q
  tSDK\QtSources\4.7.3/src/corelib/xml -IC:\QtSDK\QtSources\4.7.3/mkspecs/win32-g+
• -IC:\QtSDK\QtSources\4.7.3/tools/shared -DQT_NO_TEXTCODEC -DQT_NO_UNICODETABLE
  S -DQT_LITE_COMPONENT -DQT_NO_PCRE -DQT_NODLL -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPRESS -DUNI
  CODE -DHAVE_QCONFIG_CPP -DQT_BUILD_QMAKE -DQT_NO_THREAD -DQT_NO_QOBJECT -DQT_NO_
  GEOM_VARIANT -DQT_NO_DATASTREAM -DQT_BOOTSTRAPPED -DQLIBRARYINFO_EPOCROOT -DQMAK
  E_OPENSOURCE_EDITION project.cpp
  project.cpp: In member function 'QStringList& QMakeProject::values(const QString
  &, QMap<QString, QStringList>&)':
  project.cpp:3004: error: 'class QDateTime' has no member named 'toString'
  mingw32-make: *** [project.o] Error 1
  Building qmake failed, return code 2@

[ucomesdag]

[quote author="Hedge" date="1303341741"]ucomesdag:
That helped but there are still 3 or 4 errors:
[/quote]

Did you run mingw32-make clean before retrying?

[Hedge]

It just shows the following error when I try a clean

@C:\QtSDK\QtSources\4.7.3>mingw32-make clean
mingw32-make: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop.@

[Hedge]

Bump!
Can anyone help me with the problem mentioned in the post above?

[goetz]

Try it from the regular source package.

[ucomesdag]

Did you try running configure without arguments and then build?

Here it builds fine with the QtSources 4.7.3 on windows 7 as I mentioned the only hick-up I had was that it needed perl. Btw the regular sources also seem to need perl for syncqt.

[goetz]

[quote author="ucomesdag" date="1303596988"]Btw the regular sources also seem to need perl for syncqt.[/quote]

syncqt is not needed for regular sources. I used to compile Qt myself on windows for years, I had no problems ever.

[ucomesdag]

[quote author="Volker" date="1303818302"]
[quote author="ucomesdag" date="1303596988"]Btw the regular sources also seem to need perl for syncqt.[/quote]

syncqt is not needed for regular sources. I used to compile Qt myself on windows for years, I had no problems ever.[/quote]
Same here, but because of the issue with the QtSources that come with the SDK I downloaded the regular sources cause I did'nt want to install perl, if I could have lived without it why install it now, and I had exactly the same issue it needed perl.

[goetz]

syncqt is only needed if the source tree is different from the build tree (according to the configure shell script). I never needed perl on my Windows box when I compiled Qt mysql for a couple of years (always using the regular sources of the framework, no SDK; using MSVS). What are your configure options?

[ucomesdag]

[quote author="Volker" date="1304013778"]syncqt is only needed if the source tree is different from the build tree (according to the configure shell script). I never needed perl on my Windows box when I compiled Qt mysql for a couple of years (always using the regular sources of the framework, no SDK; using MSVS). What are your configure options?[/quote]
None as I always used when compiling from source.

[goetz]

Seems, I need to give it a try myself. I'll report soon.

[ucomesdag]

[quote author="Volker" date="1304028718"]Seems, I need to give it a try myself. I'll report soon.[/quote]Please do so, would like to know if it's me that has it all wrong or not! :-)

[goetz]

I just ran two configure sessions for Qt 4.7.3, and all went without any problems.

Setup:

• Installed Qt Creator 2.2.0
• downloaded qt-everywhere-commercial-src-4.7.3.tar.gz (the open source should be fairly identical, except of licensing files)
• extract the archive
• cd into the extracted directory
• ran .\configure.exe in Visual Studio 2008 command prompt
• opened cmd.exe, put C:\Qt\qtcreator-2.2.0\mingw\bin into PATH and ran .\configure.exe -platform win32-g++ -qconfig minimal

No hassles with missing perl (it is not installed!) in both cases, no call of syncqt.