[SOLVED] (Qt 5) Qt Quick 2 application - will not link when c++ class instance created - cpp is not being built into an .obj

Dolphin

Just a test project with one class (nothing in it) and one qml file and a main.cpp - my purpose is to learn how to take a c++ variable value and display it via qml.

Class just has a constructor, nothing else. The project compiles and links until main.cpp creates an instance of my class at which point it tries to find the class.obj file and it is not there. Main.cpp and class.cpp are in the same directory. Shadow build has been disabled. I have tried clean and rebuild, I have even tried deleting the debug output directory manually. Class.h/cpp are in the project file.

I have created this project twice from scratch and got the same thing:

create the project, it runs and displays the qml
add a new class to project, still runs
add one line into main.cpp creating an instance of class -> link error (cannot find the constructor - which is not surprising if the obj is not there)

Any ideas at all?

main.cpp
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int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QGuiApplication app(argc, argv);

QQuickView *viewer = new QQuickView();

CGuideMenu *cMenu = new CGuideMenu(viewer);
viewer->setSource(QUrl::fromLocalFile&#40;"main.qml"&#41;&#41;;
viewer->show();


return app.exec&#40;&#41;;

}
@

class header
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class CGuideMenu
{
public:
CGuideMenu(QObject *parent);
};
@

class cpp
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CGuideMenu::CGuideMenu(QObject *parent)
{
}
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.pro
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Add more folders to ship with the application, here

folder_01.source = qml/GuideNext
folder_01.target = qml
DEPLOYMENTFOLDERS = folder_01

Additional import path used to resolve QML modules in Creator's code model

QML_IMPORT_PATH =

If your application uses the Qt Mobility libraries, uncomment the following

lines and add the respective components to the MOBILITY variable.

CONFIG += mobility

MOBILITY +=

The .cpp file which was generated for your project. Feel free to hack it.

SOURCES += main.cpp
guidemenu.cpp

Please do not modify the following two lines. Required for deployment.

include(qtquick2applicationviewer/qtquick2applicationviewer.pri)
qtcAddDeployment()

HEADERS +=
guidemenu.h
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mlong

-Can you post (or link to) your code and your .pro?- Thanks

mlong

What OS and compiler are you using? If you manually run qmake, does it give you any errors?

It works ok for me, making some assumptions:

main.cpp has:
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#include <QGuiApplication>
#include <QQuickView>

#include "guidemenu.h"
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guidemenu.cpp has:
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#include "guidemenu.h"
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and guidemenu.h has the normal #ifndef/#define/#endif guards.

and your .pro file has
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QT += quick
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Dolphin

I am using Qt 5 on Windows 7.

QT += quick is that in the .pro?? I have posted the whole .pro file and obv it is not there :-)

I will try that first when I am work tomorrow.

Thank you :-)

Dolphin

Yep - that did it. After nearly 2 decades of c code I really did not think I had made an error in the actual classes (and I got someone to check!). It is these setting things that trip you up - I will learn!

Dolphin

One more quick question. CGuideMenu is derived from QObject and has Q_OBJECT in header but I still get the following error

main.obj:-1: error: LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: virtual struct QMetaObject const * __thiscall CGuideMenu::metaObject(void)const " (?metaObject@CGuideMenu@@UBEPBUQMetaObject@@XZ)

for main.obj

main.cpp
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#include <QtGui/QGuiApplication>
#include "qtquick2applicationviewer.h"

#include <QObject>
#include <QUrl>
#include <QQuickView>
#include <QQuickItem>
#include <QQmlContext>
#include <QVariant>
#include "guidemenu.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QGuiApplication app(argc, argv);

qmlRegisterType<CGuideMenu>("CGuideMenu", 1, 0, "CGuideMenu");

QQuickView viewer;

CGuideMenu *cMenu = new CGuideMenu(&viewer);
// With that below you can call myMenu.getDisplayString() in QML

//?? neither lines compile????
viewer.rootContext()->setContextProperty("myMenu", QVariant::fromValue(cMenu));
viewer.rootContext()->setContextProperty("myMenu", cMenu);

viewer.setSource(QUrl::fromLocalFile&#40;"main.qml"&#41;&#41;;
viewer.show(&#41;;

// QQuickItem *window = viewer.rootObject();
// window->setProperty("heading", "BOOH");

return app.exec&#40;&#41;;

}
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guidemenu.h
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#ifndef GUIDEMENU_H
#define GUIDEMENU_H
#include <QObject>

class CGuideMenu : public QObject
{
Q_OBJECT

public:
CGuideMenu(QObject *parent = 0);
};

#endif // GUIDEMENU_H
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cpp
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#include "guidemenu.h"

CGuideMenu::CGuideMenu(QObject *parent) : QObject(parent)
{
parent = parent;
}
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pro
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