Undefined reference to QIconvCodec during embedded make?

[crstjean]

I'm trying to configure my Qt for Embedded Linux with a virtual framebuffer according to "these instructions":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qvfb.html. From the Qt for Embedded source folder, I'm trying:

@./configure -embedded -opensource -confirm-license -verbose -qvfb
make@

I get the following error which prevents me from doing make install:

@.obj/release-shared-emb-x86/qtextcodec.o: In function setup()': qtextcodec.cpp:(.text+0x23cc): undefined reference to QIconvCodec::QIconvCodec()'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [../../lib/libQtCore.so.4.8.4] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cstjean/qt/src/corelib'
make: *** [sub-corelib-all-ordered] Error 2@

If I do:

@./configure -embedded -opensource -confirm-license -verbose -qvfb
make -no-iconv
sudo make install -no-iconv @

...This works. But when I go into QtCreator, Tools > Options > Build & Run > Qt Versions, I try to select qmake for Qt Embedded (for me it's in /home/cstjean/qt/bin/qmake) and it tells me:

@Qt version is not properly installed, please run make install@

I've tried googling this like crazy. There are a lot of suggestions to download various libraries, which I've tried to no avail, but perhaps I'm missing something because this is a pretty fresh installation of Ubuntu I'm using.

If anyone had any suggestions, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

[crstjean]

I cross-posted this problem to StackOverflow and solved the problem myself. My answer can be found "here":http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17050177/undefined-reference-to-qiconvcodec-during-qt-embedded-make

But to sum up my answer, you need Gnome if you're trying to install Qt Embedded for Linux with a Virtual Framebuffer on Ubuntu.

Install Gnome for your version of Ubuntu, uninstall your previous Qt Embedded attempts, and reinstall Qt Embedded.

Hope this helps!