New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop."
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Hi I'm IsaacPrkr and I'm a beginner with using Qt and installed it today to do some work with a C++ project and I've ran into an error when trying to run the program and it just says "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop" at first I searched around the forums trying to find a fix but came to no help for my issue so I was wondering if I make my own someone can help. Really would appreciate it. Thank you.
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I am not using Qt-Creator myself but the error you get is the compiler telling you it does not know what to do.
I had a look at QT-Creator once and as far as I know, if you create a new project using their widget, all required MakeFiles are automatically created and you should be able to run your program without any errors like this. I chose to go with another editor and I am using CMake, this forced me to dive into the build process,.. it is boring but you learn a lot about how a program is compiled.Either recreate you application within Qt-Creator or do some research into the build process.
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Hi I'm IsaacPrkr and I'm a beginner with using Qt and installed it today to do some work with a C++ project and I've ran into an error when trying to run the program and it just says "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop" at first I searched around the forums trying to find a fix but came to no help for my issue so I was wondering if I make my own someone can help. Really would appreciate it. Thank you.
@IsaacPrkr said in New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop.":
C++ project
How did you create this project?
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@IsaacPrkr said in New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop.":
C++ project
How did you create this project?
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"No rule to make target...." usually tells you that the configuring has failed and your compiler doesn't know what to do at all. But that's poking around in the fog. To help we'd need more info.
- Which Qt version are you using?
- Is it CMake or QMake?
- Can you post the CMakeLists.txt or the .pro file respectively?
- Does the "Compile Output" tab say anything?
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@jsulm It's from a git repository. I just imported the file and that was it. I think that's where I've gone wrong however but I'm not sure how I fix it. Is there another way of importing the file so that it builds correctly?
@IsaacPrkr said in New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop.":
I just imported the file and that was it
What file?
Is ther a *.pro or CMakeLists.txt file? -
@IsaacPrkr said in New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop.":
I just imported the file and that was it
What file?
Is ther a *.pro or CMakeLists.txt file?@jsulm I imported a file named gps from a git repo which contains files inside such as data, headers, src, and tests. Inside data there is data of gps locations, inside headers there are the header programs, inside src is the main cpp programs, and tests is boost tests.
Outside of these subfiles when you open just the gps file which is the main file I downloaded from the git repo it has a bunch of other files created when I loaded it into qt for the first time. And one of them is a .pro file which I can't open and dont see in qt.
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@jsulm I imported a file named gps from a git repo which contains files inside such as data, headers, src, and tests. Inside data there is data of gps locations, inside headers there are the header programs, inside src is the main cpp programs, and tests is boost tests.
Outside of these subfiles when you open just the gps file which is the main file I downloaded from the git repo it has a bunch of other files created when I loaded it into qt for the first time. And one of them is a .pro file which I can't open and dont see in qt.
@IsaacPrkr Please post a link to the Git repo.
You need to load the project file in QtCreator. QtCreator supports Qmake (*.pro) and CMake (CMakeLists.txt). -
@jsulm I imported a file named gps from a git repo which contains files inside such as data, headers, src, and tests. Inside data there is data of gps locations, inside headers there are the header programs, inside src is the main cpp programs, and tests is boost tests.
Outside of these subfiles when you open just the gps file which is the main file I downloaded from the git repo it has a bunch of other files created when I loaded it into qt for the first time. And one of them is a .pro file which I can't open and dont see in qt.
@IsaacPrkr said in New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop.":
And one of them is a .pro file which I can't open and dont see in qt
Why can't you open it? What happens?
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@IsaacPrkr Please post a link to the Git repo.
You need to load the project file in QtCreator. QtCreator supports Qmake (*.pro) and CMake (CMakeLists.txt). -
@IsaacPrkr said in New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop.":
And one of them is a .pro file which I can't open and dont see in qt
Why can't you open it? What happens?
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@jsulm Do you want the https link? If it's easier we can message on a alternative platform like Discord if that's better to resolve things.
Thank you for the help I really do appreciate it.
@IsaacPrkr said in New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop.":
Do you want the https link?
Yes, the link to the repo.
How exactly are you trying to open the pro file?
Do this:- Open QtCreator
- Go to "File/Open File or Project..."
- Navigate to the project and select the pro file
- What exactly happens now?
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@IsaacPrkr said in New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop.":
Do you want the https link?
Yes, the link to the repo.
How exactly are you trying to open the pro file?
Do this:- Open QtCreator
- Go to "File/Open File or Project..."
- Navigate to the project and select the pro file
- What exactly happens now?
@jsulm it says could not display 'gps.pro' there is no application for "qt qmake profiles".
The link is here: https://olympuss.ntu.ac.uk/N0923887/gps.git
It's gonna be password protected most likely however.
When I open the .pro file in qt it comes up with configure project. And it says no suitable kits found and I can't seem to do anything the configure project is grayed out.
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@jsulm it says could not display 'gps.pro' there is no application for "qt qmake profiles".
The link is here: https://olympuss.ntu.ac.uk/N0923887/gps.git
It's gonna be password protected most likely however.
When I open the .pro file in qt it comes up with configure project. And it says no suitable kits found and I can't seem to do anything the configure project is grayed out.
@IsaacPrkr said in New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop.":
When I open the .pro file in qt it comes up with configure project. And it says no suitable kits found
Did you also install at least one Qt version?
QtCreator is an IDE, you also need Qt if you want to build a Qt application. -
@IsaacPrkr said in New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop.":
When I open the .pro file in qt it comes up with configure project. And it says no suitable kits found
Did you also install at least one Qt version?
QtCreator is an IDE, you also need Qt if you want to build a Qt application. -
@jsulm
When installing all I did was enter
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libclang-common-8-dev qt5-default qtcreator ssh-askpassIn the terminal. Is this wrong?
@IsaacPrkr Make sure qt5-qmake is also installed.
And check whether you have any properly configured Kit in QtCreator. -
@IsaacPrkr Make sure qt5-qmake is also installed.
And check whether you have any properly configured Kit in QtCreator. -
@jsulm I've installed qt5-qmake. And how do I go check whether I have a properly configured kit?
@IsaacPrkr In QtCreator go to "Tools/Options.../Kits" and check whether there is at least one Kit
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@IsaacPrkr In QtCreator go to "Tools/Options.../Kits" and check whether there is at least one Kit
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@IsaacPrkr said in New to QtCreator Error "no rule to make target 'all'. Stop.":
There is only options that say Auto-detected and Manual
But are there any Kits, either in manual or auto detected section?
If there are no Kits then that explains your problem. In this case add a Kit manually - first add your Qt in "Qt Versions" tab (you ) and then a Kit.
