Add QFTP module in qt5

[Zunneh]

Hello guys, i want to add QFTP module to qt5, after download the source file from github, what is the next steps ?

please try to be the most explicit step by step, 4 days past and i m blocked to add this module , thanks

note : don't tell me there is QNetworkAcessManager because i need the QFtp for list() method

[Christian Ehrlicher]

What did you try exactly? What did not work?
I would simply trying to run qmake inside the source dir and/or create a separate build dir and call qmake from there with the path to the qtftp.pro file

[JonB]

@Zunneh
I cannot help you with how to get QFtp working, but....

I know your question here comes as a result of your https://forum.qt.io/topic/104526/download-a-folder-with-qnetworkaccessmanager-instead-of-file. Before you have to commit to getting QFtp to work, I did ask you there:

That means you won't be able to get a list of folder contents from server so that you can then ask it to download each one. (Unless your attempt to get() the folder URL returned anything like a list of files?)

Did you check what your attempt to get() the folder URL actually returns? You said "it diidn't work (to do the download)", but does it return anything?

[Zunneh]

@JonB said in Add QFTP module in qt5:

That means you won't be able to get a list of folder contents from server so that you can then ask it to download each one. (Unless your attempt to get() the folder URL returned anything like a list of files?)

get() didn't return anything, i saw in other post that the only solution for my problem is to install QFTP

[Zunneh]

@Christian-Ehrlicher i dowloaded this file, i put the directory in my desktop and i open the qtftp.pro ,then i tried Qmake no error , but when i try to build it says error

[JonB]

@Zunneh
Just to let you know: once someone has helped you to get this compiled, for sample code which will copy a directory recursively via QFtp see http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1405552 (search for recursively; code is old but principle is correct, hopefully it still works). Listing is also covered in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23067695/qt-4-7-how-to-iterate-through-files-in-an-ftp-directory.

[Zunneh]

@JonB Thank you , hope now someone help me to install the QFtp module

[Christian Ehrlicher]

The readme states:

"Note: If you downloaded the source package from a hosting service
such as Gitorious, the package does not contain the generated headers
under the ./include directory. Before building, you'll need to generate
them manually by running the syncqt Perl script. For example:

cd qtftp
<QTDIR>/bin/syncqt.pl -version 5.x.y"

[JonB]

@Christian-Ehrlicher
I wonder how many Windows users will have Perl installed?! :)

[Christian Ehrlicher]

@JonB : if you want to compile Qt then you have to. And since QtFtp was a part of Qt and is now deprecated it's buildsystem was never ported away from this.

[JonB]

@Christian-Ehrlicher
OIC, I have never compiled Qt, I did wonder whether that process might require Perl.
I remember when Perl was first invented, I had to compile it then :)

[J.Hilk]

@JonB I installed perl, and python. Even switched my old laptop completely over to linux.
The things Qt made me do over the years. Stuff I swore I wouldn't ever touch again, yet here I am ...
-_-

[Zunneh]

@J.Hilk i need to install perl to execute that script ? thanks

[mrjj]

@Zunneh
Hi
yes it seems so to generate some important headers.
You can get it from here
http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/releases/5.14.2.1402/

[mrjj]

Hi
Had to try it.
You can call it like

E:\qtftp-master>perl C:\Qt\5.12.3\msvc2017_64\bin\syncqt.pl -version 5.12.3

make sure to change the path to right one and also the Qt version

and it did create the include folder.

[Zunneh]

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