QCA-build for Win32 for PGP

sikander243

Hi All,

I have installed @Qt latest with Qt creator 2.6.1 (Qt 5.0.0).
I am successfully creating any projects with it, I have a project where I need to use PGP and found out an implementation is there for it
from (@qca) http://delta.affinix.com/qca/ that I think was going to be very easy to use as I have always been a Visual Studio user but never used @Qt.
now when I have downloaded the latest source of qca and run configure the following error appears

C:\SDK>cd C:\SDK\qca-2.0.3\qca-2.0.3

C:\SDK\qca-2.0.3\qca-2.0.3>configure
Configuring Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA) ...
Verifying Qt 4 build environment ... fail

Reason: Unable to find the 'qmake' tool for Qt 4.

Be sure you have a proper Qt 4.0 build environment set up. This means not
just Qt, but also a C++ compiler, a make tool, and any other packages
necessary for compiling C++ programs.

If you are certain everything is installed, then it could be that Qt 4 is not
being recognized or that a different version of Qt is being detected by
mistake (for example, this could happen if %QTDIR% is pointing to a Qt 3
installation). At least one of the following conditions must be satisfied:

--qtdir is set to the location of Qt
%QTDIR% is set to the location of Qt

This program will use the first one it finds to be true, checked in the above
order.

is there any guide to building and integrating qca with qt?

regards
sid.

koahnig

welcome to devnet

As I see it, it is a problem of the QCA configure and not a Qt issue.

My assumption is that might build with higher than the expected Qt4.2 as long as it is Qt4.
With Qt5 you might have to check with the QCA guys, or you need to see what has to be changed in QCA configure.

sikander243

thanks! I have posted to their list, let's see what they come up with, mean while will keep exploring Qt for creation of a good UI.

koahnig

You could still use Qt4 as a starter when QCA cannot react fast enough.

anaksimandr

It is possible to compile QCA and its plugins with qt5 using
this path https://github.com/psi-plus/main/blob/master/patches/dev/qca_qt5.patch
and this QConf https://github.com/psi-plus/qconf

PS use --verbose when you running configure to see detail log

helgur

You have to make sure configure.exe uses windows cmd shell, if it finds sh.exe in your path if will use that as its shell and configure will fail. In order to force configure to use cmd shell, remove any path you have pointing to sh.exe from your %PATH% environment variable and retry.

sikander243

thanks for the help, I am really not very much into the build system like that have always been working with more likely Visual Studio ( I tried to get the patch but I don't understand how to make the patch to qca)

following is the output of the

configure--verbose

C:\SDK\qca-2.0.3\qca-2.0.3>configure --verbose
Configuring Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA) ...

EX_QTDIR=
QC_STATIC=
QC_RELEASE=
QC_DEBUG=
QC_DEBUG_AND_RELEASE=
QC_NO_SEPARATE_DEBUG_INFO=
QC_SEPARATE_DEBUG_INFO=
QC_NO_FRAMEWORK=
QC_FRAMEWORK=
QC_UNIVERSAL=
QC_MAC_SDK=
QC_DISABLE_TESTS=
QC_CERTSTORE_PATH=
QC_CERTSTORE_INTERNAL=
Verifying Qt 4 build environment ...
Warning: qmake not found via --qtdir
qmake found in C:\Qt\Qt5.0.0\5.0.0\msvc2010/bin/qmake.exe
Trying "make"
Trying "mingw32-make"
Trying "nmake"
-> fail

Reason: There was an error compiling 'conf'. See conf.log for details.

Be sure you have a proper Qt 4.0 build environment set up. This means not
just Qt, but also a C++ compiler, a make tool, and any other packages
necessary for compiling C++ programs.

If you are certain everything is installed, then it could be that Qt 4 is not
being recognized or that a different version of Qt is being detected by
mistake (for example, this could happen if %QTDIR% is pointing to a Qt 3
installation). At least one of the following conditions must be satisfied:

--qtdir is set to the location of Qt
%QTDIR% is set to the location of Qt

This program will use the first one it finds to be true, checked in the above
order.

conf.log:
The system cannot find the file specified.

anaksimandr

Trying “nmake” -> fail

You need to run all commands from Visual Studio Command Prompt (Link is in the Start -> Programs -> Visual Studio).

May need to first build QConf from source to link I gave above.

sikander243

Hi there,
following is the error that I got after using Visual Studio 2010 command prompt

C:\SDK\qca-2.0.3\qca-2.0.3>configure --verbose
Configuring Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA) ...

EX_QTDIR=
QC_STATIC=
QC_RELEASE=
QC_DEBUG=
QC_DEBUG_AND_RELEASE=
QC_NO_SEPARATE_DEBUG_INFO=
QC_SEPARATE_DEBUG_INFO=
QC_NO_FRAMEWORK=
QC_FRAMEWORK=
QC_UNIVERSAL=
QC_MAC_SDK=
QC_DISABLE_TESTS=
QC_CERTSTORE_PATH=
QC_CERTSTORE_INTERNAL=
Verifying Qt 4 build environment ...
Warning: qmake not found via --qtdir
qmake found in C:\Qt\Qt5.0.0\5.0.0\msvc2010/bin/qmake.exe
Trying "make"
Trying "mingw32-make"
Trying "nmake"
-> fail

Reason: There was an error compiling 'conf'. See conf.log for details.

Be sure you have a proper Qt 4.0 build environment set up. This means not
just Qt, but also a C++ compiler, a make tool, and any other packages
necessary for compiling C++ programs.

If you are certain everything is installed, then it could be that Qt 4 is not
being recognized or that a different version of Qt is being detected by
mistake (for example, this could happen if %QTDIR% is pointing to a Qt 3
installation). At least one of the following conditions must be satisfied:

--qtdir is set to the location of Qt
%QTDIR% is set to the location of Qt

This program will use the first one it finds to be true, checked in the above
order.

conf.log:

    "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\BIN\nmake.exe" -f Make

file.Release

    C:\Qt\Qt5.0.0\5.0.0\msvc2010\bin\moc.exe -DUNICODE -DHAVE_MODULES -DQT_N

O_DEBUG -DQT_CORE_LIB -I. -I"........\Qt\Qt5.0.0\5.0.0\msvc2010\include" -I".
.......\Qt\Qt5.0.0\5.0.0\msvc2010\include\QtCore" -I"release" -I"........
Qt\Qt5.0.0\5.0.0\msvc2010\mkspecs\win32-g++" -D__GNUC__ -DWIN32 conf4.cpp -o rel
ease\conf4.moc
g++ -c -pipe -fno-keep-inline-dllexport -O2 -frtti -Wall -Wextra -fexcep
tions -mthreads -DUNICODE -DHAVE_MODULES -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_CORE_LIB -I. -I"...
.....\Qt\Qt5.0.0\5.0.0\msvc2010\include" -I"........\Qt\Qt5.0.0\5.0.0\msvc2
010\include\QtCore" -I"release" -I"........\Qt\Qt5.0.0\5.0.0\msvc2010\mkspecs
\win32-g++" -o release\conf4.o conf4.cpp
'g++' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'g++' : return code '0x1'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\BI
N\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.

anaksimandr

@........\Qt\Qt5.0.0\5.0.0\msvc2010\mkspecs \win32-g++”@

This is wrong. Should be something like this

@5.0.0\msvc2010\mkspecs\win32-msvc2010"@

Try to build QConf previously:

Download patched QConf https://github.com/psi-plus/qconf
Build it.
Copy qconf.exe, qconf.exe.embed.manifest (not sure), conf (directory) to ./QCA (root)
Run "qconf" in ./QCA. It should create configure.exe and configure files.
Then try again.

PS I might forget something specify.

sikander243

Hi again

I was able to build the qconf from source.
C:\SDK\qca-2.0.3\qca-2.0.3>qconf
Project name: Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA)
Profile: qca.pro
Deps: qt42* buildmode* buildmode_framework* universal* extra* certstore*

'configure' written.
'configure.exe' written.

and run it but it is still giving the same error, and to be understanding actually I still haven't been able to apply the patch that you mentioned earlier for qca
https://github.com/psi-plus/main/blob/master/patches/dev/qca_qt5.patch

I have downloaded the patch application and git as well, configured patch in qt creator but unable to patch it (is that the reason for the errors that I am getting)
can you please point me to some place where I can see the method of patching the project.

anaksimandr

I see that you try to patch version from archive. Can you try to patch lastest version from svn?
svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/kdesupport/qca
The patch was written for this version.

When I build QCA I can't patch it by GIT too. I used TortoiseSVN to patch it. Just open right-click menu of the directory where svn-checkout is and select TortoiseSVN->Apply patch. Then select qt5.patch downloaded by GIT.

sikander243

Hi again!
I was into the UI work and found out a limitation there as well so I have moved to now Qt 4.8 with Qt Creator 2.6.1, tried to build the qca 2.0.3 with the same commands did not make any patch to it and at the end it turns out to be the error is kind of same.

EX_QTDIR=
QC_STATIC=
QC_RELEASE=
QC_DEBUG=
QC_DEBUG_AND_RELEASE=
QC_NO_SEPARATE_DEBUG_INFO=
QC_SEPARATE_DEBUG_INFO=
QC_NO_FRAMEWORK=
QC_FRAMEWORK=
QC_UNIVERSAL=
QC_MAC_SDK=
QC_DISABLE_TESTS=
QC_CERTSTORE_PATH=
QC_CERTSTORE_INTERNAL=
Verifying Qt 4 build environment ...
Warning: qmake not found via --qtdir
qmake found in C:\Qt\4.8.4/bin/qmake.exe
Trying "make"
Trying "mingw32-make"
Trying "nmake"
-> fail

Reason: There was an error compiling 'conf'. See conf.log for details.

Be sure you have a proper Qt 4.0 build environment set up. This means not
just Qt, but also a C++ compiler, a make tool, and any other packages
necessary for compiling C++ programs.

If you are certain everything is installed, then it could be that Qt 4 is not
being recognized or that a different version of Qt is being detected by
mistake (for example, this could happen if %QTDIR% is pointing to a Qt 3
installation). At least one of the following conditions must be satisfied:

--qtdir is set to the location of Qt
%QTDIR% is set to the location of Qt

This program will use the first one it finds to be true, checked in the above
order.

conf.log:

    "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\BIN\nmake.exe" -f Make

file.Debug

    C:\Qt\4.8.4\bin\moc.exe -DUNICODE -DQT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT -DHAVE_MODULES

-DQT_DLL -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_HAVE_MMX -DQT_HAVE_SSE -DQT_HAVE_MMXEXT -DQT_HAVE_SS
E2 -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -I"........\Qt\4.8.4\include\QtCore" -I"........\Qt
\4.8.4\include" -I"........\Qt\4.8.4\include\ActiveQt" -I"debug" -I"......
..\Qt\4.8.4\mkspecs\win32-g++" -D__GNUC__ -DWIN32 conf4.cpp -o debug\conf4.moc
g++ -c -pipe -g -frtti -fexceptions -mthreads -Wall -Wextra -DUNICODE -D
QT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT -DHAVE_MODULES -DQT_DLL -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_HAVE_MMX -DQT_HA
VE_SSE -DQT_HAVE_MMXEXT -DQT_HAVE_SSE2 -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -I"........\Qt\4.8
.4\include\QtCore" -I"........\Qt\4.8.4\include" -I"........\Qt\4.8.4\incl
ude\ActiveQt" -I"debug" -I"........\Qt\4.8.4\mkspecs\win32-g++" -o debug\conf
4.o conf4.cpp
'g++' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'g++' : return code '0x1'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\BI
N\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.

maddyMo

Set QTDIR environment path and then check.

Please check Installwin batch file this searches for QTDIR env variable.