[Solved] Getting error compiling one of the tutorial examples

[theuser]

hi, im trying to compile part 13 or the "official" qt tutorial(http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/tutorial-t13.html) but doing so gives me the following error:
"undefined reference to `vtable for Gameboard" while refering to this part of the code:
@
class GameBoard : public QWidget
{
Q_OBJECT@

(its the first part of the gameboard.h file)

im using qtcreator and the other parts compiled without any errors.
Do you know what i did wrong? I simply copied the given source code and compiled

[anselmolsm]

Ok, this is old, but this error is not related with the age of the tutorial (BTW, Qt 4.7 tutorials are "here":http://doc.trolltech.com/4.7/tutorials.html).

How did you build the example? Did you try to run qmake again, then make?

[goetz]

Did you add all the source files to your .pro file? The error comes from the linker, and it's likely that it's caused by a non-compiled source file.

See a discussion of that error message here: http://bytes.com/topic/c/answers/161894-undefined-reference-vtable

[anselmolsm]

theuser, I've just checked here, doing

@
qmake -project
qmake
make
@

this example compiled successfully. Reading the tutorial, I found that the class GameBoard is included in the project now and as I suspected, the build error you experienced happened because moc did not evaluate GameBoard yet. It's needed because GameBoard inherits QObject (via QWidget) and declares its own slots - moc is the "Qt Meta Object Compiler":http://doc.trolltech.com/4.7/moc.html, the guy who deals with Q_OBJECT stuff.

[theuser]

thank you, i ran qmake once and compiled afterwards and now it works just fine :)

edit: ah and thank you for the link to the newer tutorials i didnt know the one i worked with was "out of date"(though i guess the basic concepts are still the same)

[anselmolsm]

[quote author="theuser" date="1291768946"]edit: ah and thank you for the link to the newer tutorials i didnt know the one i worked with was "out of date"(though i guess the basic concepts are still the same)[/quote]

Indeed, the concepts are still the same. Also, it is a Qt 4 example so it is expected to work with Qt 4.7 too.

I just pointed it's old because I could not find in the Qt 4.7 sources :-P