Where/How to populate information for Problem Report?

[SPlatten]

I have a problem report for an application I'm developing on MacBook Pro Apple M1. The report contains a lot of information some of which is not populated:

Identifier:    com.yourcompany.XMLMPAM
Version:       ????

How do I supply the information for these?

[SGaist]

Hi,

I would venture that some of them are read out of your application's .plist file which is generated for you by default. The version of the application you can define in your .pro file.

[SPlatten]

@SGaist , thank you, like:

VERSION_MAJOR = 1
VERSION_MINOR = 2
VERSION_BUILD = 1
VERSION = $${VERSION_MAJOR}.$${VERSION_MINOR}.$${VERSION_BUILD}
QMAKE_TARGET_BUNDLE_PREFIX = com.syberdynesystems

After modifying there .pro file, this is a copy of the output:

Process:               XMLMPAM [10715]
Path:                  /Users/USER/*/XMLMPAM.app/Contents/MacOS/XMLMPAM
Identifier:            com.syberdynesystems.XMLMPAM
Version:               ???
Code Type:             ARM-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        Exited process [10716]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2022-08-16 08:06:31.8711 +0100
OS Version:            macOS 12.5 (21G72)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        FBBB437B-FB50-D3BE-66D6-752C0698B11B

Sleep/Wake UUID:       186467C9-1ECA-4E19-970F-893DEAF10D09

Time Awake Since Boot: 3100 seconds
Time Since Wake:       2409 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: ls-notificationxpcq

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

As you can see Identifier has now been set-up. But version has not.

[SGaist]

Did you check the content of the generated .plist file ?

[SPlatten]

@SGaist Where would I find that file? I've searched the entire project folder including the build folders and I don't see any .plist files.

[J.Hilk]

@SPlatten IIRC if you don't provide one via QMAKE_INFO_PLIST than you will only ever find the binary variant inside the generated AppBundle

But you can open that one via Xcode. Xcode should be able to parse it and show it in a human readable format

[SPlatten]

@J-Hilk said in Where/How to populate information for Problem Report?:

QMAKE_INFO_PLIST

Thank you, googled this, but not clear how to use it, must found this:

http://www.bim-times.com/qt/Qt-5.11.1/qtdoc/platform-notes-ios.html

Reading now.... I tried adding:

ios {
    QMAKE_INFO_PLIST = info.plist
}

To my .pro file then ran qmake, clean and Build, I still can't see any .plist files.

[SGaist]

Do you have an info.plist file in your sources ?

[SPlatten]

@SGaist , there are no .plist files in the project folder or any of its sub-folders which includes the build folders.

[J.Hilk]

@SPlatten
ok, do you compile for MacOS or for iOS ?

ios { // iOS ONLY

}

macx { //MAC OS ONLY

}

2ndly, I said: you will only ever find the binary variant inside the generated AppBundle this is true for macOS builds, iOS builds should generate an Xcode project files and a info.plist file in the build directory

let me show you a picture:

[SPlatten]

@J-Hilk , thank you, I am building and testing on iMAC and MacBook Pro so macOS is the correct OS. Will make change now.

When rebuilding I now see in the Issues:

:-1: warning: Could not resolve Info.plist: 'info.plist'. Check if QMAKE_INFO_PLIST points to a valid file.

This is with:

macx {
    QMAKE_INFO_PLIST = info.plist
}

In my .pro file.

[J.Hilk]

@SPlatten well, does QMAKE_INFO_PLIST point to a valid info.plist file ? :D

@J-Hilk said in Where/How to populate information for Problem Report?:

@SPlatten IIRC if you don't provide one via QMAKE_INFO_PLIST than you will only ever find the binary variant inside the generated AppBundle

But you can open that one via Xcode. Xcode should be able to parse it and show it in a human readable format

I should have added here, the info.plist file you find inside the appbundle is in binary format. Thats why QtCreator can't but Xcode can interpret it.
the file QMAKE_INFO_PLIST points to should/must be the human readable format one.

I used to create my own info.plist file via Xcode and include that then in QtCreator.

But I took the time to research where Qt has the templates stowed. For me, I found it here:
/.../Qt/5.15.10/clang_64/mkspecs/macx-clang

confusingly named Info.plist.app

Copy that one to your project folder, rename it, and let QMake_Info__plist point to it.

[SPlatten]

@J-Hilk Sorry for the long delay, I've been busy with other projects and now returning to this, still getting:

:-1: warning: Could not resolve Info.plist: 'info.plist'. Check if QMAKE_INFO_PLIST points to a valid file.

Why is this an issue, what causes it?

[Edit] I commented out:

#macx {
#    QMAKE_INFO_PLIST = info.plist
#}

From the .pro file, cleaned and rebuilt, no more problems.

[J.Hilk]

Hi @SPlatten , don't worry, I was away too :D

anyway usually its Info.plist not info.plist should technically not matter on macOS but the qmake tool is handwritten and my be case sensitive