error: ‘QT_INIT_METAOBJECT’ does not name a type; did you mean ‘Q_INIT_RESOURCE’?

[rtvideo]

Randomly started getting this error for a reason I do not know, I was editing some functions and all of a sudden this error is popping up. Would anyone know what this means and how to fix it?

error: ‘QT_INIT_METAOBJECT’ does not name a type; did you mean ‘Q_INIT_RESOURCE’?
moc_mainwindow.cpp:93:1: error: ‘QT_INIT_METAOBJECT’ does not name a type; did you mean ‘Q_INIT_RESOURCE’?
QT_INIT_METAOBJECT const QMetaObject MainWindow::staticMetaObject = { {
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Q_INIT_RESOURCE

[Christian Ehrlicher]

I would start with a clean source (make sure there are no generated files) and build dir

[SGaist]

Hi,

Which version of Qt ?
What code does trigger that ?

[rtvideo]

QT 5.9.5

This is the function in moc_mainwindow.cpp that is causing the issue

QT_INIT_METAOBJECT const QMetaObject MainWindow::staticMetaObject = { {
    QMetaObject::SuperData::link<QMainWindow::staticMetaObject>(),
    qt_meta_stringdata_MainWindow.data,
    qt_meta_data_MainWindow,
    qt_static_metacall,
    nullptr,
    nullptr
} };

[SGaist]

Can you show your MainWindow header ?

[rtvideo]

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[SGaist]

Nothing obvious comes to mind. Do you have the same issue if you comment all the non Qt related code (includes as well) ?

[rtvideo]

Yes unfortunately, I tried upgrading my QT version earlier by downloading another version from the website, could that have messed it up somehow? Should I just try uninstalling all QT versions and reinstalling again?

[SGaist]

The content of the moc file can change but that should not concern you directly as they are automatically generated.

Any chance that this moc file was not regenerated ?

[rtvideo]

It is generated

[Christian Ehrlicher]

I would start with a clean source (make sure there are no generated files) and build dir