Failing to start a new Qt program on Mac

Gabriel_22

Hello.
I'm creating a Qt project and receiving the following error in the Application output when running in the release mode:

Starting (build directory)/my_project ...
Failed to start program. Path or permissions wrong?
(build directory)/my_project exited with code -1
The process failed to start. Either the invoked program "(build directory)/my_project" is missing, or you may have insufficient permissions to invoke the program.

compile output:

Running steps for project my_project...
Configuration unchanged, skipping qmake step.
Starting: "/usr/bin/make" -j4
make: Nothing to be done for `first'.
The process "/usr/bin/make" exited normally.
Elapsed time: 00:00.

The same happens in debug mode.

Current Configurations:
Mac clang_64(Mac OS Sierra, version 10.12.6)
Qt 5.6.3
Qt Creator 4.10.1

How i'm creating the project:
new project -> Qt Widgets Application
build system: qmake
kit selection: Desktop Qt 5.6.3 clang 64bit2

In the executable field in Run Settings/Run, my_project doesn't have the .app extension. Could this mean something with the qt not finding my_project?

However, i am able to run my project directly from: (build directory)/my_project.app/Contents/MacOS/my_project, using the terminal.

SGaist

Hi,

Are you locked to that old version of Qt ?
I would first update to e.g. the current LTS which is Qt 5.12.5.

Gabriel_22

@SGaist
Yes, we must use this version for now.

Gabriel_22

I was able to run my project by renaming the file "QtProject" in the .config folder, so QtCreator could generate a new "QtProject" file.

The error "Failed to start program. Path or permissions wrong?" no longer occurred.

Maybe there was something wrong with the "QtProject" file, but I have no idea what it was.

SGaist

Spaces are rarely a good idea with such a use case.