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Compilling Qt Creator 2.2 on FreeBSD

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    tobias.hunger
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    Did you try running c++filt on the symbol name to demangle it and then went on a search for where it is actually defined? You might be needing an additional library or something to get it.

    PS: Patches to Qt Creator to fix the build are welcome:-)

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      gustavo
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      Thanks Tobias!

      Running c++filt get me this result:
      @c++filt _ZTVN5Botan11POSIX_TimerE

      vtable for Botan::POSIX_Timer
      @

      So, there's something in Botan build configuration preventing it to load this class at build time. Fortunately, I've noticed Qt Creator 2.0 was showing this same problem, and, for this version, there's a patch in FreeBSD ports, namely:
      @
      --- ./src/libs/3rdparty/botan/src/src.pro.orig 2010-08-24 11:46:09.000000000 +0400
      +++ ./src/libs/3rdparty/botan/src/src.pro 2010-11-29 03:49:46.829707166 +0300
      -564,10 +564,6
      timer/gettimeofday/tm_unix.cpp
      }

      -linux*-g++* {

      • SOURCES += timer/posix_rt/tm_posix.cpp
        -}
        +SOURCES += timer/posix_rt/tm_posix.cpp

      -linux*-g++* {

      • LIBS += -lrt
        -}
        +LIBS += -lrt

      @

      This fix the Botan::POSIX_Timer problem. Now I'm able to launch Qt Creator. Nevertheless, another problem has arrived: when I try to load a project file, a dialog appears displaying this message:

      bq. No valid qt versions found. Please add a qt version in Tools/Options or via the maintenance tool of the SDK

      This is really strange, because the path of my Qt local installation is already set up correctly in Tools/Options (Qt Creator just found it automatically). Any idea what went wrong this time?

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        tobias.hunger
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        Does "this patch":http://pastebin.com/7pQyvFDj fix the build for you?

        Is the Qt version marked as valid in Tools->Options->Qt4? My guess is that this worked. Is there any tool chain set up in Tools->Options->Qt4? Does it have a sane ABI (hover it, please)? My guess that this is what is going wrong here. If it indeed is: Can you please provide me with the output of gcc -dumpmachine? Thanks!

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          gustavo
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          Everything in Qt4 configuration seems to be ok:

          Name: Qt in PATH
          ABI: x86-linux-generic-elf-64bit
          mkspec: freebsd-g++
          qmake: /home/gustavo/opt/Qt-4.7.3/bin/qmake
          Version: 4.7.3
          QT_INSTALL_LIBS /home/gustavo/opt/Qt-4.7.3/demos
          QT_INSTALL_EXAMPLES /home/gustavo/opt/Qt-4.7.3/examples
          QT_INSTALL_DOCS /home/gustavo/opt/Qt-4.7.3/doc
          QT_INSTALL_DATA /home/gustavo/opt/Qt-4.7.3/
          QT_INSTALL_CONFIGURATION /etc/xdg
          QT_INSTALL_IMPORTS /home/gustavo/opt/Qt-4.7.3/imports
          QT_INSTALL_TRANSLATIONS /home/gustavo/opt/Qt-4.7.3/translations
          QMAKE_MKSPECS /home/gustavo/opt/Qt-4.7.3/mkspecs
          QT_INSTALL_PLUGINS /home/gustavo/opt/Qt-4.7.3/plugins
          QT_INSTALL_PREFIX /home/gustavo/opt/Qt-4.7.3/
          QT_INSTALL_HEADERS /home/gustavo/opt/Qt-4.7.3/include
          QT_VERSION 4.7.3
          QT_INSTALL_BINS /home/gustavo/opt/Qt-4.7.3/bin

          The output of gcc -dumpmachine:
          amd64-undermydesk-freebsd

          About the patch you provided, I'm gonna testing it to provide you a feedback.

          Thanks.

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            tobias.hunger
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            Yeap, it does not know "amd64-undermydesk-freebsd", so it will not recognize that this is something compatible with your freebsd Qt... Plus it obviously assumed your Qt to be linux, too.

            So there is quite a bit going wrong. Could you please send me your libQtCore.so (the actual lib, not the symlinks;)? That would be highly appreciated!

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              gustavo
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              How do I send it to you? By mail?

              By the way, let me point a related usability bug in Qt Creator: at my work, only some projects are currently using any Qt library. Nonetheless, we want to use Qt Creator as our IDE for every C++ project, regardless of it being Qt based or not. So, for many projects, it's not necessary that Qt Creator finds any Qt configuration at all. But, with this bug, we are not able to use Qt Creator even for this non-Qt projects, because Qt Creator does require a working Qt configuration for every project.

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                gustavo
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                And the patch you provided fixed the build issue.
                Thanks!

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                  tobias.hunger
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                  We do not require a working Qt in Qt Creator. QMake based projects do, since qmake itself is part of Qt and we of course need to find that.

                  You can use qmake based projects without Qt though, or CMake or generic projects (both of which do not even ask for Qt).

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                    gustavo
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                    Pretty interesting. I've never heard Qt Creator could use another file format besides .pro to set up a project structure. I was thinking one must use a .pro file in order to Qt Creator recognise and index a project tree even for non Qt projects. This is a usefull information.

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                      tobias.hunger
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                      The docs do mention it:

                      http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtcreator-2.2/creator-project-cmake.html
                      http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtcreator-2.2/creator-project-generic.html

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                        tobias.hunger
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                        Just opened http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTCREATORBUG-4879 about misdetection of freebsd binaires as linux.

                        This will make it hard to work on freebsd since Creator will not match up the compiler with the Qt version and thus block building:-/

                        The only workaround I can think of right now is to feed Qt Creator with a compiler that claims via "gcc -dumpmachine" to be targetting Linux. A small script wrapper should do that... then the (now misdetected) compiler will match up with the misdetected Qt and all should be well.

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                          gustavo
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                          Thank you, Tobias! I'm gonna try this workaround.

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                            Belisario
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                            Hello All,

                            I've compile the qt-creator 2.2.0 and I have the exact same error when trying to run it, i.e.

                            bash-4.2# bin/qtcreator
                            Failed to load core: /export/home/Download/Qt-creator/lib/qtcreator/plugins/Nokia/libCore.so: Cannot load library /export/home/Download/Qt-creator/lib/qtcreator/plugins/Nokia/libCore.so: (ld.so.1: qtcreator: fatal: relocation error: file /download/Qt-creator/lib/qtcreator/libBotan.so.1: symbol _ZTVN5Botan11POSIX_TimerE: referenced symbol not found)

                            bash-4.2# nm -C /download/Qt-creator/lib/qtcreator/libBotan.so.1 | grep _ZTVN5Botan11POSIX_TimerE
                            [_ZTVN5Botan11POSIX_TimerE]
                            bash-4.2# nm /download/Qt-creator/lib/qtcreator/libBotan.so | grep _ZTVN5Botan11POSIX_TimerE
                            [7605] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |_ZTVN5Botan11POSIX_TimerE

                            and well the patch it seems to work for FreeBSD, but I'm working in Solaris 10 and well checking the file

                            vim /download/qt-creator-2.2.0-src/src/libs/3rdparty/botan/src/timer/gettimeofday/info.txt

                            realname "Unix Timer"

                            define TIMER_UNIX

                            load_on auto
                            modset unix,beos

                            <add>
                            tm_unix.cpp
                            tm_unix.h
                            </add>

                            <os>
                            aix
                            beos
                            cygwin
                            darwin
                            freebsd
                            dragonfly
                            hpux
                            irix
                            linux
                            netbsd
                            openbsd
                            qnx
                            solaris
                            tru64
                            </os>

                            <requires>
                            timer
                            </requires>

                            Solaris is listed as the "detected" OS, I don't know how to check if the compiler does a good detection of the OS, I have both libraries, librt et libposix4, which i read were the needed libraries to get all the posix timing routines.

                            Do you have any ideas on how getting qtcreator to run?

                            Thanks in advance

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                              gustavo
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                              Hi, Belisario!

                              In the file src/libs/3rdparty/botan/src/src.pro, did you try just removing the folowing lines: 287, 289, 571, 573, 575 and 577? If this works, we can do a small change in the patch Tobias provided to fix compilation in Solaris as well.

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                                Belisario
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                                Thanks Gustavo, It runs now, qtcreator, but I have the exact same problemyou had, when trying to create or open a project it says no valid qt version found! but verifying under tools/options/qt4 Qtcreator has automatically taken the qmake on the PATH variable.

                                And on the shell where i ran the qtcreator i found these 3 different messages repeated:

                                QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
                                QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed: Error 0
                                QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed: Error 0
                                QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed: Error 0
                                QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed: Error 0
                                QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed: Error 0
                                QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed: Error 0
                                QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed: No such file or directory

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                                  Belisario
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                                  I just check and I'm guessing the problem is on the ABI value:

                                  ABI: x86-linux-generic-elf-32bit

                                  when i have a Solaris machine:

                                  bash-4.2# gcc -dumpmachine
                                  i386-pc-solaris2.10

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                                    tobias.hunger
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                                    No surprise there considering that the fix did not go into the 2.2 branch:-)

                                    Please try master (or backport the patch from there, the SHA is in the bugreport).

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                                      Belisario
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                                      I'm sorry but I don't follow :D

                                      I cannot find the Master version, from where can I download it?

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                                        goetz
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                                        You will have to clone the sources from "gitorious":https://qt.gitorious.org/qt-creator and build Creator yourself.

                                        Alternatively, you can try one of the snapshots on "get.qt.nokia.com":http://get.qt.nokia.com/qtcreator/snapshots/

                                        http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                                          Belisario
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                                          Thanks Volker, I have the latest clone source, still work to do though for make it compile, nothing I haven' t done before, I will post a summary of changes I'll make thru all the process to see if ww can get it in the next fix

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