[SOLVED] Qt 4.8.3 qmake produces faulty makefiles

egrath

Hi,
I am currently trying to get Qt 4.8.3 and TDM-GCC running. Unfortunately not even a simple application is buildable because qmake produces defective Makefiles in my case.

When i run mingw32-make in my shadow build tree, i get the following error

@mingw32-make -f Makefile.Release
mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory C:/Temp/test01-build-Desktop-Release' mingw32-make[1]: *** No rule to make target ../test01/...', needed by ui_mainwindow.h'. Stop. mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory C:/Temp/test01-build-Desktop-Release'
mingw32-make: *** [release] Error 2@

The offending part of the Makefile.Release file is:

@ui_mainwindow.h: ../test01/mainwindow.ui
../test01/...
c:/Qt/4.8.3/bin/uic.exe ../test01/mainwindow.ui -o ui_mainwindow.h@

Can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong? The project i've used for this purpose is a Qt Creator 2.6 generated application (default "Qt GUI Application")

What i've tried so far:

Using another Compiler (Stock MinGW) => No success

Manually running "qmake -makefile -spec win32-g++" in the shadow build directory => No success

Manually running "qmake -makefile -speci win32-g++" in the source directory => No success

Adding C:\Qt\4.8.3\bin and C:\MingW32\bin to the PATH variable => No success

Tried Qt 4.8.1 instead => No success, same problem

I am running out of ideas...

Thanks,
egrath

egrath

After doing a little more investigation it seems that the issue must be related to the local system (Windows 8 RTM):

Copying Qt 4.8.3 and the MinGW compiler to another host (Windows 7 based) and running qmake/mingw32-make there works.

Running qmake on another host (Windows 7) and compiling the project on the Windows 8 box works too.

sierdzio

Interesting. Consider trying out "Qt 4.8.4 RC3":http://releases.qt-project.org/digia/4.8.4_RC3/ and if the problem persists, would be nice to report this as a bug on "jira":https://qt-project.org/wiki/ReportingBugsInQt.

egrath

So, after digging and playing around a little more i've found out whats going on - and it seems to be a bug in Qmake.

I've set up my system to execute a batch script automatically every time i run "cmd.exe" via the Registry Key "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor" REG_SZ AutoRun. If this batch script outputs something like
@
<BLANK LINE>
Setting up environment ....
<BLANK LINE>
@

in my case, the newlines and '...' end up in the Makefile. Automagically the alphanumeric characters are filtered out. As soon as i disable the output of the batch script, everything works as expected. Should i post a Bug report to JIRA or is this just a behavior too specific in my environment?

Thanks,
egrath

sierdzio

This is indeed quite specific, but I think it's worth reporting. There are some generally available programs that hook up to cmd.exe, too, so a fix might have some broader use.