Running UIC on .ui files on Visual Studio

Thaxila

I have a complicated Qt Widgets GUI written on Linux.
To compile it with Visual Studio for Windows, I created a Visual Studio Project From Existing Code. After the project was created, I added in the .ui form files to the project.

When I compile the project, uic does not run and the ui_ headers and moc files are not being created. Consequently, the project does not find the ui_ headers.

How can I configure Visual Studio 2022 to make it run the Qt uic on the .ui files in the project as a build step please?

Pl45m4

@Thaxila

Use a build system like CMake and/or add the Qt VS Tools for Visual Studio 2022 to your VS Plugins.

For CMake, see

Don't you use CMake for your Linux build?! Why not use the same configuration (well or at least similar when there is OS specific stuff)?

@Thaxila said in Running UIC on .ui files on Visual Studio:

After the project was created, I added in the .ui form files to the project.

Also: Include the *.ui files in your project, don't just move them afterwards

Thaxila

I added the Qt Visual Studio Tools which is supposed to automatically run the uic compiler on all .ui files. But it doesn't. I ended up adding a pre-build event to manually run uic on each .ui form.

Bonnie

Are the .ui files correctly catalogued as "Form Files" in the solution explorer? What's your Qt Project Settings?
Years ago when I was using quite old Qt & VS I had met similar problem and clear/reset the Qt version in the project setting could solve that. Not sure if this would work on your case.

Thaxila

I had to manually add the form files. It is supposed to recognize the .ui extension. The project didn't.