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