"unused parameter 'parent'" and undefined symbols
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Hey, I've been trying to write my own Qt program from scratch, and but I've been getting this error:
bq. usr/bin/clang++ -c -pipe -O2 -arch x86_64 -Xarch_x86_64 -mmacosx-version-min=10.8 -Wall -W -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I/opt/local/share/qt4/mkspecs/macx-g++ -I. -I. -I/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions/4/Headers -I/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Versions/4/Headers -I. -I/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Versions/4/Headers -I/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions/4/Headers -I/opt/local/include -F/opt/local/Library/Frameworks -F/opt/local/lib -o gui.o gui.cpp
/usr/bin/clang++ -headerpad_max_install_names -arch x86_64 -Xarch_x86_64 -mmacosx-version-min=10.8 -o secretproject.app/Contents/MacOS/secretproject gui.o -F/opt/local/Library/Frameworks -F/opt/local/lib -F/opt/local/Library/Frameworks -F/opt/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib -framework QtGui -framework QtCore
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
"vtable for TopSecret", referenced from:
TopSecret::TopSecret(QWidget*) in gui.o
NOTE: a missing vtable usually means the first non-inline virtual member function has no definition.
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [secretproject.app/Contents/MacOS/secretproject] Error 1So apparently this error is caused by me not defining all functions. But I swear I defined all the functions in my QWidget subclass:
@#include <iostream>
#include <QApplication>
#include <QWidget>
#include <QVBoxLayout>
#include <QHBoxLayout>
#include <QPushButton>
#include <QCheckBox>
#include <QTextBrowser>
class TopSecret: public QWidget
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
TopSecret(QWidget *parent=0);
~TopSecret();
private slots:
void setverbose();
//void openfilepls();
private:
bool verbose;
QVBoxLayout *inputvsoutput;
QHBoxLayout *inputoptions;
QPushButton *openbutton;
QCheckBox *verbosecheckbox;
QTextBrowser *dcmdumpoutput;
};TopSecret::TopSecret(QWidget *parent):QWidget(parent)
{
verbose = FALSE;
inputvsoutput = new QVBoxLayout();
inputoptions = new QHBoxLayout();
openbutton = new QPushButton("Open");
verbosecheckbox = new QCheckBox("Verbose");
dcmdumpoutput = new QTextBrowser();inputoptions->addWidget(openbutton);
inputoptions->addWidget(verbosecheckbox);
inputvsoutput->addLayout(inputoptions);
inputvsoutput->addWidget(dcmdumpoutput);
setLayout(inputvsoutput);
};
TopSecret::~TopSecret()
{};void TopSecret::setverbose(){
std::cout << "verbose checkbox state: " << verbosecheckbox->checkState() << std::endl;
};
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You don't by any chance have all this code in a .cpp? QObject based class declaration should be in a header.
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You mean you have #include "gui.cpp" somewhere??? That is bad on its own.
But here the problem is something else. You inherit from QObject, which has quite a few virtual methods that you don't implement (and shouldn't!).
Each time you run qmake a tool called moc (meta object compiler) runs on all headers and generates a file moc_YOURCLASS.cpp which contains implementation of those virtual methods.
Because you placed your class declaration in a .cpp moc can't see it and doesn't generate it so you get this linker error of missing implementation.Aside from this Qt specific topic it's a good style to place class declarations in headers. There are lots of reasons for it (use your favorite search engine) and it's the C++ way, so do that and you'll avoid lots of problems in the future.
