Errors when building QT 4.7.3 from source

Hedge · wrote on 21 Apr 2011, 06:23

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 · wrote on 22 Apr 2011, 20:33

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

goetz · wrote on 23 Apr 2011, 19:43

Try it from the regular source package.

ucomesdag · wrote on 23 Apr 2011, 22:16

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 · wrote on 26 Apr 2011, 11:45

[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 · wrote on 28 Apr 2011, 10:34

[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 · wrote on 28 Apr 2011, 18:02

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 · wrote on 28 Apr 2011, 21:47

[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 · wrote on 28 Apr 2011, 22:11

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

ucomesdag · wrote on 29 Apr 2011, 12:03

[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 · wrote on 8 May 2011, 13:04

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.