QtCreator source build failed: psapi.h problem

Grit Clef

Hi all,
I'm not very familiar to the overall process of building QtCreator. Today I tried building QtCreator 7.0.2 from source on Windows in MSYS2 environment. I installed all packages about Qt 5.15.16 and GCC 14.2.0, then I successfully cmaked the source. Everything has been well until the 'localprocesslist.cpp' was built. The error is:

In file included from localprocesslist.cpp:45:
D:/msys64/mingw32/include/psapi.h:166:28: error: expected ')' before '*' token
  166 |   typedef WINBOOL (CALLBACK *PENUM_PAGE_FILE_CALLBACKW) (LPVOID pContext,PENUM_PAGE_FILE_INFORMATION pPageFileInfo,LPCWSTR lpFilename);
      |                   ~        ^~
      |                            )
D:/msys64/mingw32/include/psapi.h:167:28: error: expected ')' before '*' token
  167 |   typedef WINBOOL (CALLBACK *PENUM_PAGE_FILE_CALLBACKA) (LPVOID pContext,PENUM_PAGE_FILE_INFORMATION pPageFileInfo,LPCSTR lpFilename);
      |                   ~        ^~
      |                            )
D:/msys64/mingw32/include/psapi.h:169:34: error: 'PENUM_PAGE_FILE_CALLBACKW' was not declared in this scope; did you mean 'PENUM_PAGE_FILE_CALLBACK'?
  169 |   WINBOOL WINAPI EnumPageFilesW (PENUM_PAGE_FILE_CALLBACKW pCallBackRoutine,LPVOID pContext);
      |                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                                  PENUM_PAGE_FILE_CALLBACK
D:/msys64/mingw32/include/psapi.h:169:84: error: expected primary-expression before 'pContext'
  169 |   WINBOOL WINAPI EnumPageFilesW (PENUM_PAGE_FILE_CALLBACKW pCallBackRoutine,LPVOID pContext);
      |                                                                                    ^~~~~~~~
............

Such errors were caused by the psapi.h. But I haven't modified it, which belongs to the compiler itself. How to solve that problem? Great thanks.

Or is there some way to exclude the 'projectexporter' plugin from build?

aha_1980

@Grit-Clef Any reason you want to build an almost three year old Creator version with a very recent GCC compiler?

I'd recommend trying Qt Creator 15 or the upcoming 16 instead, which will need some newer Qt 6 also.

And ProjectExplorer is one of the essential plugins, you will not get far without that.

Regards

Grit Clef

I just don't want to use Qt6, that's it. I tried to manually expand the macro CALLBACK to __stdcall in psapi.h, and those errors disappeared... Now I'm wondering this...

Christian Ehrlicher

What has QtCreator to do with the Qt version you want to use for compiling? It's just an IDE...