MYSQL error in Qt

Alfie Anil

Hello everyone, I was following through the documentation as suggested by @Christian-Ehrlicher . The first command I added was 'qmake -- MYSQL_INCDIR="C:/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Connector C 6.1/include" MYSQL_LIBDIR="C:/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Connector C 6.1/lib"

But the outcome was different to that which was in the documentation. This was what I got:

QMake has two modes, one mode for generating project files based on
some heuristics, and the other for generating makefiles. Normally you
shouldn't need to specify a mode, as makefile generation is the default
mode for qmake, but you may use this to test qmake on an existing project

Mode:
  -project       Put qmake into project file generation mode
                 In this mode qmake interprets [files] as files to
                 be added to the .pro file. By default, all files with
                 known source extensions are added.
                 Note: The created .pro file probably will
                 need to be edited. For example add the QT variable to
                 specify what modules are required.
  -makefile      Put qmake into makefile generation mode (default)
                 In this mode qmake interprets files as project files to
                 be processed, if skipped qmake will try to find a project
                 file in your current working directory

Warnings Options:
  -Wnone         Turn off all warnings; specific ones may be re-enabled by
                 later -W options
  -Wall          Turn on all warnings
  -Wparser       Turn on parser warnings
  -Wlogic        Turn on logic warnings (on by default)
  -Wdeprecated   Turn on deprecation warnings (on by default)

Options:
   * You can place any variable assignment in options and it will be *
   * processed as if it was in [files]. These assignments will be    *
   * processed before [files] by default.                            *
  -o file        Write output to file
  -d             Increase debug level
  -t templ       Overrides TEMPLATE as templ
  -tp prefix     Overrides TEMPLATE so that prefix is prefixed into the value
  -help          This help
  -v             Version information
  -early         All subsequent variable assignments will be
                 parsed right before default_pre.prf
  -before        All subsequent variable assignments will be
                 parsed right before [files] (the default)
  -after         All subsequent variable assignments will be
                 parsed after [files]
  -late          All subsequent variable assignments will be
                 parsed right after default_post.prf
  -norecursive   Don't do a recursive search
  -recursive     Do a recursive search
  -set <prop> <value> Set persistent property
  -unset <prop>  Unset persistent property
  -query <prop>  Query persistent property. Show all if <prop> is empty.
  -qtconf file   Use file instead of looking for qt.conf
  -cache file    Use file as cache           [makefile mode only]
  -spec spec     Use spec as QMAKESPEC       [makefile mode only]
  -nocache       Don't use a cache file      [makefile mode only]
  -nodepend      Don't generate dependencies [makefile mode only]
  -nomoc         Don't generate moc targets  [makefile mode only]
  -nopwd         Don't look for files in pwd [project mode only]

Any ideas?
Thanks

SGaist

Hi,

You are likely not in the right folder, likely in your Qt installation rather than sources.

Alfie Anil

So I opened the terminal from the qt5.13.2 mingw32. Is that where i open the terminal from or is it another directory?

Christian Ehrlicher

@Alfie-Anil said in MYSQL error in Qt:

Is that where i open the terminal from or is it another directory?

That's correct. But then you have to go to the correct source dir as you can see in the documentation: <srcdir>\qtbase\src\plugins\sqldrivers
Is it really that hard to follow the instructions?

Alfie Anil

I've tried everything said but still comes up with the exact error.

Christian Ehrlicher

@Alfie-Anil said in MYSQL error in Qt:

I've tried everything said but still comes up with the exact error.

Did you really call the correct qmake in the correct directory? I would guess no.

Alfie Anil

@Christian-Ehrlicher Yes I did. As stated in the documentation I cd to the correct directory and then followed the commands as given.

jsulm

@Alfie-Anil The question was rather: did you call correct qmake?
To make sure you call correct qmake use absolute path (instead of simply calling qmake).

Alfie Anil

So do you mean 'C:<NecessaryDirectory>? Yes

jsulm

@Alfie-Anil Yes, absolute path like c:\Qt\5.12.0\mingw73_64\bin\qmake.exe

Alfie Anil

Yes That's what I did

Alfie Anil

@jsulm Actually I did get it working. But then I ran into the problem that although the problem was gone, none of the sql commands would not work so I was trying to fix that. Then, I ran into a problem with the computer which meant I had to reset the computer. So now I have to do it all over again (hahaha). (I've tried all the steps I did before)