[Solved]Compiling Qt Designer

[lloydqt]

Hi,

I have downloaded Qt Designer (Qt tools) from this link -> https://gitorious.org/qt-tools/qt-tools/archive-tarball/master

I am interested in the implementation details of designer. To study the code, I would like to build it.

I have loaded the project in Qt Creator directly. When try building it it throws a lot of error. Is this the right way of building Designer. Also I have visual studio add-in of Qt for VS 2010. I have created a new Qt project and loaded all the files related to Qt Designer. But when try compiling it, get a lot of errors like this

"fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'QtWidgets/QGroupBox': No such file or directory"

I am using Visual Studio 2010 premium in Windows 7, Qt 4.8.7

Whats the best way to compile Qt Designer?

Thanks,
Lloyd

[miroslav]

You trying to build the (future) Qt5 Qt Creator against 4.8. Try looking at the source code of Creator 2.4.1 here: http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-creator

[lloydqt]

Thanks miroslav,

I have downloaded Qtcreator as you have suggested. Now again I have loaded the project in QtCreator, tried to build. It gave me the following error....

....
....
jom 1.0.6 - empower your cores

Error: dependent '........\Qt' does not exist.
command failed with exit code 2
command failed with exit code 2
command failed with exit code 2
20:13:13: The process "C:\DevelLibs\QtSDK\QtCreator\bin\jom.exe" exited with code 2.
Error while building project qtcreator (target: Desktop)
When executing build step 'Make'

What could be the reason? Is it possible to get the code of Designer alone for compilation as a standalone application not as a plugin? As I am more interested in its "professional style implementation details"...

Thanks,
Lloyd

[lloydqt]

To solve this I have done the following.

Downloaded Qt 4.8.1 SDK src and built as per the instrcutions like
*) configure
*) nmake /jom
then went to SDK srcs tools directory and opened the "designer.sln" file and built it.