Custom C++ type from a QML module is not defined when used inside QML file

Anumas

@monkeber after doing what I said you should get your app working

To fix Qt Creator complaining about unknown types, you have to modify your module definition:

project(logicmodulelib VERSION 0.1 LANGUAGES CXX)

qt_add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} STATIC)
qt_add_qml_module(${PROJECT_NAME}
    URI logicmodule
    VERSION 1.0
    RESOURCE_PREFIX "/qt/qml"
    QML_FILES
        Main.qml
    SOURCES
        MySingleton.h
        Message.h
)
...

In the URI you MUST follow your project structure. https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtqml-writing-a-module.html

Update your root's CMakeLists.txt to link to the plugin correctly: target_link_libraries(apptypetest PUBLIC logicmodulelibplugin)

dheerendra

You can see the example in my repository.
https://github.com/QtDheeru/QtExamples/tree/master/QML/QMLSingleTonIssue

monkeber

@Anumas Thank you very much, your suggestion indeed helped me and now qml properly recognizes custom types!

A note regarding Qt Creator complaining about unknown types - for some reason implementing fixes as you suggested didn't help, but what helped is setting QML_IMPORT_PATH in root CMakeLists.txt, do you think this is a proper fix for this or is something wrong here?

CMakeLists files now look like this:

# logicmodule/CMakeLists.txt
project(logicmodulelib VERSION 0.1 LANGUAGES CXX)

qt_add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} STATIC)
qt_add_qml_module(${PROJECT_NAME}
	URI logicmodule
	VERSION 1.0
	RESOURCE_PREFIX "/qt/qml"
	QML_FILES
		Main.qml
	SOURCES
		MySingleton.h
		Message.h
)

target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC
	Qt6::Core
	Qt6::Gui
	Qt6::Qml
	Qt6::Quick
)

target_include_directories(${PROJECT_NAME}
	PUBLIC
		.
)

# CmakeLists.txt
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)

project(typetest VERSION 0.1 LANGUAGES CXX)

set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)

find_package(Qt6 6.5 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Quick)
qt_policy(SET QTP0001 NEW)
set(QT_QML_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/qt/qml)
set(QML_IMPORT_PATH "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/qt/qml" CACHE STRING "Qt Creator extra qml import paths"
	FORCE)

qt_standard_project_setup(REQUIRES 6.5)

add_subdirectory(logicmodule)

qt_add_executable(apptypetest
	main.cpp
)

target_link_libraries(apptypetest PUBLIC
	Qt6::Gui
	Qt6::Qml
	logicmodulelibplugin
)

monkeber

@dheerendra Sorry, I'm not sure I understood your example correctly. When I start your example I get an error:

QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component
qrc:/qt/qml/dheeru/Main/Main.qml: No such file or directory

Does it work for you? Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

I also tried to tweak it to make it work for me, but with no success so far.

dheerendra

Yes. It is working example. Did you make any changes to the program ?
I have failed case with StaticPlugin/CMakeLists.txt -
qt_add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} STATIC). Change this line to ->qt_add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} SHARED)

Everything should work.

Anumas

@monkeber Sorry, I forgot to add that you needed to reset your code model: Go to Tools -> QML/JS -> Reset Code Model. Always try to reset it when Qt Creator complains about unknown types.

monkeber

@Anumas Yes, I've tried to reset the code model, clean rebuild and also I've updated Qt Creator to 13.0.2 (from 13.0.0) just in case. Not sure what's wrong, but after commenting out setting QML_IMPORT_PATH again, rebuilding and resetting the code model - Qt Creator can't recognize the module:

QML_IMPORT_PATH is indeed not in CMakeCache.txt unless I set it from CMake.

Maybe I indeed need to set it manually:
https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-qml-modules-with-plugins.html#importing-qml-modules

I'm also on Windows, not sure if it's relevant or not.

monkeber

@dheerendra
Sorry, I'm not sure what am I doing wrong here, but even after changing qt_add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} STATIC) to qt_add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} SHARED) as you suggested I still get this error while trying to run the example:

23:42:38: Starting E:\Projects\QtExamples-master\QML\QMLSingleTonIssue\build\Debug-Desktop_Qt_6_7_0_MSVC2019_64bit_MSVC2022\appQMLSingleTonIssue.exe...
QML debugging is enabled. Only use this in a safe environment.
QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component
qrc:/qt/qml/dheeru/Main/Main.qml: No such file or directory

What I did:

Download your repo in zip archive.
Unpack.
In Qt Creator Open File or Project -> QtExamples-master\QML\QMLSingleTonIssue\CMakeLists.txt
Build and Run in Debug configuration.

I did not change anything in the code, just retried it.

dheerendra

@monkeber How did you solve the problem ? It helps if you post the same here.

monkeber

Hi @dheerendra

I think the issue was in NO_PLUGIN as were suggested by @Anumas here:
https://forum.qt.io/post/802964

Seems to be working fine with static library now. I marked that message as a solution.