Link Cryptlib Library with Qt creator

[sikander243]

I have Qt Creator 2.6.1 based on Qt 5.0 I have build cryptlib with visual studio 2010

all cryptlib project is on C:\SDK\cl342 when I have built the project the crypt.h and cl32.lib and cl32.dll are in this folder C:\SDK\cl342

I am getting linker error on every method that I call from cryptlib such as cryptInit I have tried adding it from the project menu and add external library it makes many changes to pro file but does not even let me include crypt.h.

mainwindow.obj:-1: error: LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _cryptEnd@0 referenced in function "public: __thiscall MainWindow::MainWindow(class QWidget *)" (??0MainWindow@@QAE@PAVQWidget@@@Z) –

my pro files looks something like this.

QT += core gui
greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets
TARGET = testlistview
TEMPLATE = app
SOURCES += main.cpp
mainwindow.cpp
HEADERS += mainwindow.h
FORMS += mainwindow.ui
INCLUDEPATH = C:\SDK\cl342
DEPENDPATH += C:\SDK\cl342
LIBS += C:\SDK\cl342\cl32.lib

[Hostel]

Maybe try:
@
INCLUDEPATH += C:\SDK\cl342\ #add a + sign
LIBS += -LC:\SDK\cl342\cl32.lib -lcl32

else looks ok

@

[ChrisW67]

That would be:
@
LIBS += -LC:/SDK/cl342 -lcl32

or

LIBS += C:/SDK/cl342/cl32.lib
@

(Get out of the habit of using backslashes in pro files and you will avoid the qmake warnings about unescaped backslashes)

Are you sure of the library name? cl32 not cl342 perhaps?
Is the project being built with the same compiler you used for the library? If not you might have a binary format mismatch issue: MSVC++ lib files are not useful in MingW builds.

[sikander243]

well either of the above didn't work I still get the same error.
I made sure the lib and the dll names are cl32.lib, cl32.dll

more over I found out there is another folder there
C:\SDK\cl342\binaries32_vs10
and here I found the libs with same name as well and tried to access them the above mentioned way.

I am not doing any thing with the MingW I guess, I built cryptlib with Visual Studio and settings in Qt Creator for my test project are
qmake.exe C:\Qt\Qt5.0.0\Tools\QtCreator\bin\testlistview\testlistview.pro -r -spec win32-msvc2010

more over I have a strange issue that if try compiling my Qt application in Debug it gives me crypt.h not found error
error: C1083: Cannot open include file: 'crypt.h': No such file or directory
at the same time when I switch to debug it gives me no header error but if I switch to release configuration I get this linker error.

[sikander243]

I tried using the right click and Add-library option as well that wrote the following lines in my .pro file
more over built cryptlib to be a static lib

unix|win32: LIBS += -L$$PWD/../../../../../../SDK/cl342/binaries32_vs10/ -lcl32

INCLUDEPATH += $$PWD/../../../../../../SDK/cl342
DEPENDPATH += $$PWD/../../../../../../SDK/cl342

win32: PRE_TARGETDEPS += $$PWD/../../../../../../SDK/cl342/binaries32_vs10/cl32.lib
else:unix: PRE_TARGETDEPS += $$PWD/../../../../../../SDK/cl342/binaries32_vs10/libcl32.a

but to no use the error is still same