How to build Qt Creator 14.0.2 using Q 6.6.3 and MinGW 11.2

8Observer8

I have configured Qt Creator without problems using CMake 3.27.7:

Log:

Could NOT find WrapVulkanHeaders (missing: Vulkan_INCLUDE_DIR) 
Could NOT find Clang (missing: Clang_DIR)
qml/notes_qt6.vert -> notes_qt6.vert.qsb exposed as :/qt/qml/QtCreator/Tracing/notes_qt6.vert.qsb
qml/notes_qt6.frag -> notes_qt6.frag.qsb exposed as :/qt/qml/QtCreator/Tracing/notes_qt6.frag.qsb
qml/timelineitems_qt6.vert -> timelineitems_qt6.vert.qsb exposed as :/qt/qml/QtCreator/Tracing/timelineitems_qt6.vert.qsb
qml/timelineitems_qt6.frag -> timelineitems_qt6.frag.qsb exposed as :/qt/qml/QtCreator/Tracing/timelineitems_qt6.frag.qsb
qml/bindingloops_qt6.frag -> bindingloops_qt6.frag.qsb exposed as :/qt/qml/QtCreator/QmlProfiler/bindingloops_qt6.frag.qsb
qml/bindingloops_qt6.vert -> bindingloops_qt6.vert.qsb exposed as :/qt/qml/QtCreator/QmlProfiler/bindingloops_qt6.vert.qsb
The following packages have been found:

 * Qt6CoreTools (required version >= 6.6.3)
 * Qt6Concurrent (required version >= 6.4.3)
 * Qt6GuiTools (required version >= 6.6.3)
 * Qt6Gui (required version >= 6.4.3)
 * Qt6Network (required version >= 6.4.3)
 * Qt6WidgetsTools (required version >= 6.6.3)
 * Qt6PrintSupport (required version >= 6.4.3)
 * Qt6QmlTools (required version >= 6.6.3)
 * Qt6Qml (required version >= 6.4.3)
 * Qt6Sql (required version >= 6.4.3)
 * Qt6Xml (required version >= 6.4.3)
 * Qt6Core5Compat (required version >= 6.4.3)
 * Qt6Quick
 * Qt6QuickWidgets
 * Qt6Designer
 * Qt6DesignerComponentsPrivate
 * Qt6Help
 * Qt6Svg
 * Qt6ToolsTools (required version >= 6.6.3)
 * Qt6Tools
 * Qt6LinguistTools
 * Threads
 * Qt6Test
 * Qt6SvgWidgets
 * yaml-cpp, using internal src/libs/3rdparty/yaml-cpp
 * Qt6ShaderToolsTools (required version >= 6.6.3)
 * Qt6ShaderTools
 * Qt6QmlDomPrivate
 * Python3

-- The following packages have not been found:

 * Qt6QmlCompilerPlusPrivate
 * Vulkan
 * WrapVulkanHeaders
 * Qt6SerialPort
 * Clang
 * Qt6WebEngineWidgets
 * Qt6Charts
 * Qt6QmlCompilerPrivate
 * Qt6Quick3D
 * Qt6Quick3DAssetImport
 * Qt6Quick3DParticles
 * Qt6Quick3DAssetUtils
 * Qt6

-- The following features have been enabled:

 * Build QmlDesigner and related code (only if Qt is 6.5.4 or newer)
 * Library 3rd_cplusplus
 * Library KSyntaxHighlighting
 * Library libvterm
 * Library QrCodeGenerator, with CONDITION TARGET Qt6::Quick AND TARGET Qt6::Svg
 * Library qtkeychain
 * CredentialStore keychain support, with CONDITION USE_CREDENTIAL_STORE
 * Library lua546
 * Executable winpty-agent
 * Library winpty
 * Library Nanotrace
 * Library AdvancedDockingSystem, with CONDITION TARGET Qt::QuickWidgets
 * Library Aggregation
 * Library CPlusPlus
 * Library ExtensionSystem
 * Library GLSL
 * Library LanguageServerProtocol
 * Library LanguageUtils
 * Library Modeling
 * Library QmlDebug
 * Library QmlEditorWidgets
 * Library QmlJS
 * Library Utils
 * Executable qtcreator_ctrlc_stub
 * Library Spinner
 * Library Tasking
 * Library TerminalLib
 * Library Tracing, with CONDITION TARGET Qt6::ShaderTools AND TARGET Qt::Quick
 * Library SqliteInternal
 * Library Sqlite
 * Library QmlPuppetCommunication
 * Library designerintegrationv2
 * Library ProParser
 * Library shared_help
 * Plugin Core
 * Plugin Lua
 * Plugin TextEditor
 * Plugin ExtensionManager
 * Plugin HelloWorld
 * Plugin ImageViewer
 * Plugin Marketplace
 * Plugin ScreenRecorder
 * Plugin UpdateInfo
 * Plugin Welcome
 * Plugin BinEditor
 * Executable cpaster
 * Plugin CodePaster
 * Plugin DiffEditor
 * Plugin EmacsKeys
 * Plugin Macros
 * Plugin ProjectExplorer
 * Plugin SilverSearcher
 * Plugin Axivion
 * Plugin CompilerExplorer
 * Plugin CppEditor
 * Plugin Haskell
 * Plugin Help, with CONDITION TARGET Qt::Help
 * Plugin ResourceEditor
 * Plugin Nim
 * Plugin Conan
 * Plugin SafeRenderer
 * Plugin Terminal
 * Plugin Vcpkg
 * Plugin ClassView
 * Plugin GLSLEditor
 * Plugin ModelEditor
 * Plugin QtSupport
 * Plugin Todo
 * Plugin VcsBase
 * Plugin AutotoolsProjectManager
 * Plugin Bazaar
 * Plugin Beautifier
 * Plugin ClearCase
 * Plugin CVS
 * Plugin Designer, with CONDITION TARGET Qt::DesignerComponentsPrivate AND TARGET Qt::Designer
 * Plugin Docker
 * Plugin FakeVim
 * Plugin Fossil
 * Plugin GenericProjectManager
 * Plugin Git
 * Plugin Mercurial
 * Plugin MesonProjectManager
 * Plugin Perforce
 * Plugin QmakeProjectManager
 * Plugin QmlJSTools
 * Plugin ScxmlEditor
 * Plugin Subversion
 * Plugin CompilationDatabaseProjectManager
 * Plugin LanguageClient
 * Plugin LuaLanguageClient, with CONDITION TARGET Lua
 * Plugin QmlDesignerBase, with CONDITION TARGET Qt::QuickWidgets
 * Plugin WebAssembly
 * Plugin Debugger
 * Plugin Coco
 * Plugin Copilot
 * Plugin GitLab
 * Plugin QmlProjectManager, with CONDITION TARGET Qt::QuickWidgets
 * Library QmlProjectManagerLib
 * Plugin Python
 * Plugin CMakeProjectManager
 * Plugin Android
 * Plugin AutoTest
 * Plugin BareMetal
 * Plugin ClangCodeModel
 * Library yaml-cpp
 * Plugin ClangTools, with CONDITION TARGET yaml-cpp
 * Plugin Cppcheck
 * Plugin IncrediBuild
 * Plugin Ios
 * Plugin QmlJSEditor
 * Plugin QmlPreview, with CONDITION TARGET QmlProjectManager
 * Plugin QmlProfiler, with CONDITION TARGET Tracing AND TARGET Qt6::ShaderTools
 * Plugin RemoteLinux
 * Plugin Valgrind
 * Plugin PerfProfiler, with CONDITION TARGET Tracing
 * Plugin QbsProjectManager
 * Plugin CtfVisualizer, with CONDITION TARGET Tracing
 * Plugin Squish
 * Plugin Boot2Qt
 * Library QmlDesignerUtils
 * Library QmlDesignerCore, with CONDITION TARGET QmlDesignerBase AND TARGET Qt6::QmlPrivate AND TARGET Qt6::QmlDomPrivate AND TARGET Qt6::QmlCompilerPrivate
 * Plugin QmlDesigner, with CONDITION TARGET QmlDesignerCore AND TARGET Qt::QuickWidgets AND TARGET Qt::Svg
 * Plugin assetexporterplugin, with CONDITION TARGET QmlDesigner
 * Plugin componentsplugin, with CONDITION TARGET QmlDesigner
 * Plugin qmlpreviewplugin, with CONDITION TARGET QmlDesigner
 * Plugin qtquickplugin, with CONDITION TARGET QmlDesigner
 * Plugin QmlDesignerLite, with CONDITION TARGET QmlDesigner
 * Plugin EffectComposer, with CONDITION TARGET Qt::Quick AND TARGET QtCreator::QmlDesigner
 * Plugin StudioWelcome, with CONDITION TARGET Qt::QuickWidgets AND TARGET QtCreator::QmlDesigner
 * Plugin Insight, with CONDITION TARGET QtCreator::QmlDesigner
 * Plugin Qnx
 * Plugin McuSupport
 * Plugin QtApplicationManagerIntegration
 * Executable qtcreator
 * Executable cplusplus-keywordgen
 * Executable buildoutputparser
 * Executable cplusplus-ast2png
 * Executable cplusplus-frontend
 * Executable cplusplus-mkvisitor
 * Executable cplusplus-update-frontend
 * Executable qtcreator_processlauncher
 * Executable qml2puppet, with CONDITION TARGET Qt::Quick
 * Executable qtcdebugger
 * Executable qtc-askpass
 * Executable qtpromaker
 * Library sdktoolLib
 * Executable sdktool
 * Executable valgrind-fake
 * Executable win64interrupt
 * Executable qtcreator_process_stub

-- The following features have been disabled:

 * Build documentation
 * Build online documentation
 * Build documentation by default
 * Build tests
 * Build with sanitize, SANITIZE_FLAGS=''
 * Build with Crashpad
 * Sqlite tracing
 * Build Qbs
 * Plugin SerialTerminal, with CONDITION TARGET Qt::SerialPort
 * Native WebKit help viewer, with CONDITION FWWebKit AND FWAppKit
 * QtWebEngine help viewer, with CONDITION BUILD_HELPVIEWERBACKEND_QTWEBENGINE AND TARGET Qt::WebEngineWidgets
 * litehtml help viewer, with CONDITION TARGET qlitehtml
 * Treat warnings as errors in QmlDesigner
 * Plugin ClangFormat, with CONDITION TARGET clangFormat AND LLVM_PACKAGE_VERSION VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL 14.0.0 AND ( QTC_CLANG_BUILDMODE_MATCH OR CLANGTOOLING_LINK_CLANG_DYLIB )
 * Plugin AppStatisticsMonitor, with CONDITION TARGET Qt6::Charts
 * Qml Designer Lite
 * Image cache tracing
 * Model tracing
 * Meta info tracing
 * Qt Quick 3D support, with CONDITION TARGET Qt::Quick3D
 * Qt Quick 3D asset import, with CONDITION TARGET Qt::Quick3DAssetImport
 * Qt Quick 3D particles, with CONDITION TARGET Qt::Quick3DParticles
 * Qt Quick 3D asset utils, with CONDITION TARGET Qt::Quick3DAssetUtils
 * multilanguage-support in qml2puppet, with CONDITION TARGET QtCreator::multilanguage-support
 * Executable qtcreator_crash_handler, with CONDITION UNIX AND NOT APPLE AND ( CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL Debug )
 * Include developer documentation

Configuring done (13.9s)
Generating done (19.2s)

But nothing happens when I try to build it:

E:\Temp\qt-creator-14.0.2\dist>cmake --build dist -j4
Built target copy_changelog_to_builddir

8Observer8

Oh, sorry! I should run it like this:

cmake --build . -j4

or:

E:\Temp\qt-creator-14.0.2\dist>cd ..
E:\Temp\qt-creator-14.0.2>cmake --build dist -j4

8Observer8

The building was stopped with errors. For example the first errors:

[ 35%] Building CXX object src/plugins/lua/CMakeFiles/Lua.dir/bindings/settings.cpp.obj
C:/Qt/Tools/mingw1120_64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/11.2.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/as.exe: CMakeFiles\Lua.dir\bindings\gui.cpp.obj: too many sections (36684)
C:\Users\8OBSER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\ccK77WId.s: Assembler messages:
C:\Users\8OBSER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\ccK77WId.s: Fatal error: can't write 79 bytes to section .text of CMakeFiles\Lua.dir\bindings\gui.cpp.obj: 'file too big'
C:/Qt/Tools/mingw1120_64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/11.2.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/as.exe: CMakeFiles\Lua.dir\bindings\gui.cpp.obj: too many sections (36684)
C:\Users\8OBSER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\ccK77WId.s: Fatal error: CMakeFiles\Lua.dir\bindings\gui.cpp.obj: file too big
mingw32-make.exe[2]: *** [src\plugins\lua\CMakeFiles\Lua.dir\build.make:185: src/plugins/lua/CMakeFiles/Lua.dir/bindings/gui.cpp.obj] Error 1
mingw32-make.exe[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

It says gui.cpp.obj: 'file too big'. I think it means that I don't have enough space on my laptop. The dist folder has 2.64 GB now. I build on the E drive. It has 7.85 GB of free space. The C drive has 5.37 GB. How many GBs should I have?

jsulm

@8Observer8 said in How to build Qt Creator 14.0.2 using Q 6.6.3 and MinGW 11.2:

How many GBs should I have?

To build QtCreator quite a lot I think. Can't tell you exactly.
Having only 5GB free on C drive is anyway problematic (temp folder for example).

cristian-adam

Qt Creator is being built with MinGW at https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator/actions and the MinGW builds are green.

Note that that is a Release build. The Debug build sometimes has issues, and one has to add a compiler option.

We have fixed this in master, see https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-creator/qt-creator.git/tree/src/plugins/lua/CMakeLists.txt#n63


    if (MSVC)
        # Prevent fatal error C1128
        target_compile_options(Lua PRIVATE /bigobj)
    endif()
    if (MINGW)
        target_compile_options(Lua PRIVATE "-Wa,-mbig-obj")
    endif()

8Observer8

I have added the if (MINGW) here: E:\Temp\qt-creator-14.0.2\src\plugins\lua\CMakeLists.txt:

if (MSVC)
    # Prevent fatal error C1128
    set_property(SOURCE bindings/settings.cpp PROPERTY COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
endif()
if (MINGW)
    target_compile_options(Lua PRIVATE "-Wa,-mbig-obj")
endif()

Error: Fatal error: CMakeFiles\Lua.dir\bindings\settings.cpp.obj: file too big here

[ 37%] Automatic RCC for diffeditor.qrc
C:/Qt/Tools/mingw1120_64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/11.2.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/as.exe: [ 37%] CMakeFiles\Lua.dir\bindings\settings.cpp.objBuilding CXX object src/plugins/diffeditor/CMakeFiles/DiffEditor.dir/DiffEditor_autogen/mocs_compilation.cpp.obj: section
.xdata$_ZN3sol6detail18ctti_get_type_nameIPN5Utils11EnvironmentEiEENSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEEv: string table overflow at offset 10000103
C:\Users\8OBSER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\ccQzTMVu.s: Assembler messages:
C:\Users\8OBSER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\ccQzTMVu.s: Fatal error: CMakeFiles\Lua.dir\bindings\settings.cpp.obj: file too big
[ 37%] Building CXX object src/plugins/cpaster/CMakeFiles/CodePaster.dir/frontend/argumentscollector.cpp.obj
mingw32-make.exe[2]: *** [src\plugins\lua\CMakeFiles\Lua.dir\build.make:270: src/plugins/lua/CMakeFiles/Lua.dir/bindings/settings.cpp.obj] Error 1
mingw32-make.exe[1]: *** [CMakeFiles\Makefile2:6415: src/plugins/lua/CMakeFiles/Lua.dir/all] Error 2
mingw32-make.exe[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
[ 37%] Building CXX object src/plugins/diffeditor/CMakeFiles/DiffEditor.dir/diffeditor.cpp.obj
...
[ 37%] Building CXX object src/plugins/diffeditor/CMakeFiles/DiffEditor.dir/DiffEditor_autogen/EWIEGA46WW/qrc_diffeditor.cpp.obj
AutoMoc: E:/Temp/qt-creator-14.0.2/src/plugins/projectexplorer/sanitizerparser.cpp: note: No relevant classes found. No output generated.
[ 37%] Built target ProjectExplorer_autogen
[ 37%] Linking CXX shared library ..\..\..\lib\qtcreator\plugins\libDiffEditor.dll
[ 37%] Built target DiffEditor
mingw32-make.exe: *** [Makefile:155: all] Error 2

8Observer8

I've start from the beginning. My steps:

I've made: "File" > "Delete Cache" in the CMake-GUI
I've deleted the qt-creator-14.0.2 folder and unzipped the qt-creator-14.0.2.zip file
I've edit this E:\Temp\qt-creator-14.0.2\src\plugins\lua\CMakeLists.txt file. I've added this code to it:

if (MINGW)
    target_compile_options(Lua PRIVATE "-Wa,-mbig-obj")
endif()

I've clicked the Configure button
I've set the Qt6_DIR to C:/Qt/6.6.3/mingw_64/lib/cmake/Qt6
I've clicked on the Configure button again and again to make it white instead of red
I've clicked on the Generate. It was finished without errors
I've pressed the Generate button again
I've moved to the E:/Temp/qt-creator-14.0.2/build location in CMD
I've typed the cmake --build . -j4

The building was finished after 15 minutes with the message: ar.exe: could not create temporary file whilst writing archive: no more archived files

[  9%] Linking CXX static library ..\..\..\..\bin\liblua546.a
C:\Qt\Tools\mingw1120_64\bin\ar.exe: could not create temporary file whilst writing archive: no more archived files
mingw32-make.exe[2]: *** [src\libs\3rdparty\lua\CMakeFiles\lua546.dir\build.make:665: bin/liblua546.a] Error 1
mingw32-make.exe[1]: *** [CMakeFiles\Makefile2:3847: src/libs/3rdparty/lua/CMakeFiles/lua546.dir/all] Error 2
mingw32-make.exe[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
[  9%] Building CXX object src/libs/3rdparty/cplusplus/CMakeFiles/3rd_cplusplus.dir/Type.cpp.obj
[  9%] Built target winpty
[  9%] Building CXX object src/libs/3rdparty/cplusplus/CMakeFiles/3rd_cplusplus.dir/TypeVisitor.cpp.obj
[  9%] Built target 3rd_cplusplus
[  9%] Linking CXX shared library ..\..\..\bin\libNanotrace.dll
[  9%] Built target Nanotrace
mingw32-make.exe: *** [Makefile:155: all] Error 2

Full log: https://gist.github.com/8Observer8/894bb0f4016bf582ea1d691642aa917c

cristian-adam

Try using the Ninja CMake generator. Alternatively you can disable the Lua plugin if you don't need it. -DBUILD_PLUGIN_LUA:BOOL=OFF