Errors when building QT 4.7.3 from source

[A Former User]

(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.

[A Former User]

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

[A Former User]

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 ;-)

[A Former User]

[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).

[A Former User]

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@

[A Former User]

[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?

[A Former User]

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.@

[A Former User]

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

[A Former User]

Try it from the regular source package.

[A Former User]

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.

[A Former User]

[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.

[A Former User]

[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.

[A Former User]

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?

[A Former User]

[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.

[A Former User]

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

[A Former User]

[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! :-)

[A Former User]

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.