Using poppler-qt6 for qt project on macOS

BushyAxis793

Hello,

I want to add to my application pdf viewer. I found information that poppler should be good for this. So I decided to use it.

I use homebrew to install poppler and qt:

brew install poppler

brew install qt

Next I added to my project CMakeList.txt lines:

find_package(Poppler REQUIRED)
find_package(Qt6 COMPONENTS Widgets REQUIRED)

add_executable(myapp main.cpp)
target_link_libraries(myapp PRIVATE Poppler::Qt6 Qt6::Widgets)

Where my app is name of my project

And I got an error:

What should I do to solve this problem? I try to add path to poppler installation but not result:

Any tips?

Have a good day

SGaist

Hi,

One possible way: use KDE's ecm package that provides a CMake find module for Poppler.

BushyAxis793

@SGaist I think I have no idea how to use your solution. Is there any simpler way to use poppler in qt creator project?

SGaist

It has nothing to do with Qt Creator, you are using CMake to manage your project.

Since you are already using brew, did you install the
extra-cmake-modules formula ?

JoeCFD

@BushyAxis793 can you try
export Poppler_Dir=installdir/cmake

The installed poppler has a cmake dir.

BushyAxis793

@SGaist No, I did not install extra-cmake-modules formula

SGaist

Then it's a good first step so you will get these extra find modules for cmake which contains one for poppler.

Otherwise, use CMake's find_library and find_path functions.