Qmake unable to generate project file from QtCeator...
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@jsulm why? read the first line, I'm a total noob, I'm just trying whatever I can.
The project has been moved from home to myuser to desktop and all over the place, if it has to be in a specific place, can I be told explicitly rather than implied as an idiot for not knowing automatically.
I call qmake -project because that's what various tutorials have told me to do.
Dont bother asking which, please, I'm not going to list every forum page I've looked at this week.By the way, qmake on its own gives me a similar reply, unable to generate makefile. So 'just call qmake and make' is unhelpful as well.
Adjust the project file if needed... to what? How do I find out what needs to be adjusted related to what in my system? I repeat, noobs need examples!
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@chuckborisnorris said in Qmake unable to generate project file from QtCeator...:
rather than implied as an idiot for not knowing automatically
Please calm down, I did not imply you being an idiot. I just ask why you did this, nothing more.
You should keep your project somewhere in your home directory - here you have access rights and don't need to do anything as root.
qmake -project is needed only once to generate the project file.
Now you have it already.
Please run qmake and post the whole output here."Adjust the project file if needed... to what?" - that depends on what is wrong, that's why I suggest to post the qmake output.
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The project has been called from /home/me/robo_ui; is this not my home directory? The output is as in the first post "failure to find... unable to generate..."
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@chuckborisnorris In the first post you called qmake with -project parameter. What happens if you call qmake without -project parameter?
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In the first post I really didn't want to list every single operation I've performed...
- qmake from /home/myuser/roboi_ui - failure to find... unable to generate makefile...
- sudo qmake from /home/myuser/roboi_ui - no output in terminal, no makefile
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@chuckborisnorris OK, lets be more clear. In /home/myuser/roboi_ui you have the pro file? And if you call qmake without -project in that directory you get "failure to find ..."?
The thing is: if you do not provide needed information you will not get any meaningful help as others can only guess then.
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@jsulm once again, absolute noob, I am explaining what I've done to the best of my ability.
Yes my project is in the above directory atm, is this the correct ditectory? I have tried all possible combinations of sudo, qmake, -project (explicitly: qmake, sudo qmake, qmake -project, sudo qmake -project) i have also tried all of these commands with the project folder on my desktop.
Pretty
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@chuckborisnorris posted by accident. Meant to say: pretty sure this has already been stated earlier. Let's be more clear: What other info do you need?
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@chuckborisnorris You didn't answer this question: "In /home/myuser/roboi_ui you have the pro file?".
"is this the correct ditectory?" - it doesn't matter where you put it in your home directory, that's fine.
Can you show what is inside /home/myuser/roboi_ui ?
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I've finally got it sussed, turns out it was a Linux issue rather than a Qt issue.
@jsulm I see now why you were confused about the folder structure, apologies for my frustration yesterday, I thought you were just being pedantic. Sorry.
The makefile was created with "sudo qmake" but the terminal couldn't see it (it didn't show up with "ls" either). In the explorer, though, it did show up. Interestingly when I used the QtCreator file browser to find the makefile (for experimental purposes only) I couldn't see it either. I assume it's some sort of weird permissions thing going on so I just created a new user profile and now I can build my UI without any issues.
If I find out what caused all this I'll post it up but classic first post eh? ...Issue had nothing to do with the forum <Picard face-palm>.
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@chuckborisnorris No problem! Such things happen :-)
