Building examples: File does not exist '../shared/shared.qrc'

april_heard

I'm facing issues with getting the any examples to work. The ones I have tried complain with:

File does not exist '../shared/shared.qrc'

My steps are:

Installed Qt Creator from Arch Linux repositories (using pacman)
It is not installed into a virtual environment
Open Welcome Section in Qt Creator 4.11.0-4 and go to Examples
Choose the externaldraganddrop example (located at /usr/share/doc/qt/examples/quick/externaldraganddrop/)
Accept the suggestion to "Copy Project & Open" the example to a writeable location (in my home folder)
Configure Project: accept default (desktop kit)

Upon building & running the project I am faced with a lot of these errors:

WARNING: Failure to find: ../shared/shared.qrc
/usr/bin/rcc: File does not exist '../shared/shared.qrc'

My next step was to copy /usr/share/doc/qt/examples/quick/shared/ to the correct relative location of '../shared/'

from my project's location (in my home directory) I can see that the file shared.qrc is located where it is expected:

$ ls ../shared/shared.qrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 623 Dec 12 03:45 ../shared/shared.qrc

I see a similar question here:

Examples difficult to use - QtWebkit Examples in particular | Qt Forum https://forum.qt.io/topic/83731/examples-difficult-to-use-qtwebkit-examples-in-particular

The solution there was to install OpenSuse, which is not realistic for me. This should work on Arch Linux, right?

Anyone know how I can resolve this?

EDIT: I removed the confusing stuff. Too much information. Question is now more directly to the point.

SGaist

What if you do it quick and dirty and copy the complete examples folder ?

Don't forget to try a full clean rebuild.

SGaist

Hi,

Are you trying to build the examples directly in the folder where they are ?

This won't work since it's in a read-only part of your system.

april_heard

@SGaist said in Building examples: File does not exist '../shared/shared.qrc':

Hi,

Are you trying to build the examples directly in the folder where they are ?

This won't work since it's in a read-only part of your system.

No, as I stated, I'm not doing that. Maybe I should edit my question to make it less confusing. But I explained how to copied the examples to a writeable location.

SGaist

What if you do it quick and dirty and copy the complete examples folder ?

Don't forget to try a full clean rebuild.