[solved] Qt5: Deploying an Application on Windows - Static Linking

[michal.lohnisky]

Hello,

I downloaded qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0.zip and followed tutorial at
"http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtdoc/deployment-windows.html":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtdoc/deployment-windows.html
with these parametres:
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configure -prefix

[michal.lohnisky]

Shouldn't I have libQt5Multimedia.a or something similar in C:\Qt\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase\lib? Because I have libQt5Core.a, libQt5Gui.a, libQt5Network.a and libQt5Widgets.a in there.

How can I force configure (and mingw32-make) to create libQt5Multimedia.a?

[compor]

it seems that the Qt Multimedia module is missing, as it is also indicated by the relevant qmake error.
you can also verify this by checking if the qtmultimedia directory is present in the Qt source directory (it's most likely missing).

head over to "qt downloads":http://download.qt-project.org/development_releases/qt/5.1/ and after you select your version of Qt 5.1, head over to the submodules directory and locate the qtmultimedia package.

download, follow the instructions and install it. just make sure you provide the same path for it as the rest of your already installed Qt has
(although, i don't recall if it's asked during the build/installation)

hope this helps

[michal.lohnisky]

It was first thing I checked. There is qtmultimedia directory in C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0, so I think I have configure with bad/incomplete parameters.

There is the tail of configures output:
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Environment:
INCLUDE=
Unset
LIB=
Unset
PATH=
C:\Python27
C:\Python27\Scripts
C:\Perl\site\bin
C:\Perl\bin
C:\Windows\system32
C:\Windows
C:\Windows\System32\Wbem
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0
C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2009a\bin
C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2009a\bin\win32
C:\Qt\qtcreator-2.5.2\bin
C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\mingw47_32\bin
C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\Tools\MinGW\bin
C:\Ruby193\bin
C:\Users\michal\AppData\Roaming\Python\Scripts
Configuration:
minimal-config
small-config
medium-config
large-config
full-config
pcre
debug
compile_examples
Qt Configuration:
debug_and_release build_all release
debug
c++11
static
system-zlib
gif
jpeg
png
freetype
build_all
accessibility
audio-backend
native-gestures
qpa
iconv
concurrent
minimal-config
small-config
medium-config
large-config
full-config

QMAKESPEC...................win32-g++ (commandline)
Architecture................i386, features:
Host Architecture...........i386, features:
Maketool....................mingw32-make
Debug build.................yes (combined)
Default build...............debug
Force debug info............no
C++11 support...............yes
Link Time Code Generation...no
Accessibility support.......yes
RTTI support................yes
SSE2 support................yes
SSE3 support................yes
SSSE3 support...............yes
SSE4.1 support..............yes
SSE4.2 support..............yes
AVX support.................yes
AVX2 support................yes
NEON support................no
IWMMXT support..............no
OpenGL support..............no
Large File support..........yes
NIS support.................no
Iconv support...............yes
Inotify support.............no
eventfd(7) support..........no
Glib support................no
CUPS support................no
OpenVG support..............no
OpenSSL support.............no
Qt D-Bus support............no
Qt Widgets module support...yes
Qt GUI module support.......yes
QML debugging...............yes
DirectWrite support.........no
Use system proxies..........no

Third Party Libraries:
ZLIB support............system
GIF support.............yes
JPEG support............yes
PNG support.............yes
FreeType support........yes

PCRE support............qt
ICU support.............no
ANGLE...................no

Styles:
Windows.................yes
Windows XP..............yes
Windows Vista...........yes
Fusion..................yes
Windows CE..............no
Windows Mobile..........no

Sql Drivers:
ODBC....................no
MySQL...................no
OCI.....................no
PostgreSQL..............no
TDS.....................no
DB2.....................no
SQLite..................yes (qt)
SQLite2.................no
InterBase...............no

Sources are in..............C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase
Build is done in............C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase
Install prefix..............C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase
Headers installed to........C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase\include
Libraries installed to......C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase\lib
Arch-dep. data to...........C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase
Plugins installed to........C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase\plugins
Library execs installed to..C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase\bin
QML1 imports installed to...C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase\imports
QML2 imports installed to...C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase\qml
Binaries installed to.......C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase\bin
Arch-indep. data to.........C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase
Docs installed to...........C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase\doc
Translations installed to...C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase\translations
Examples installed to.......C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase\examples
Tests installed to..........C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase\tests
WARNING: Using static linking will disable the use of plugins.
Make sure you compile ALL needed modules into the library.

Generating Makefiles...

Qt is now configured for building. Just run mingw32-make.
To reconfigure, run mingw32-make confclean and configure.

• qtbase\bin\qmake C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0
  Info: creating super cache file C:/Qt/Qt5.0.2/5.0.2/qt-everywhere-opensource-src
  -5.1.0/.qmake.super
  @

Shouldn't be there something like
@
Qt Multimedia module support...yes
@

near lines

@
Qt Widgets module support...yes
Qt GUI module support.......yes
@

?

[compor]

i don't think qt-everywhere contains every possible submodule, and if that is so, that's why you don't see the lines you suggested in you last post.

either try the installers from "here":http://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/5.1/5.1.0/ (top level directory)

or

try installing the qtmultimedia submodule as i suggested in last post (also the link above "submodules" directory)

[michal.lohnisky]

I figured it out. There is qtmultimedia folder in qt-everywhere, but the configure does not create a Makefile (don't know why), so I had to create it manualy. There are updated steps I used to build Qt5 statically:
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configure -static -debug-and-release -opensource -nomake tests -nomake examples -skip declarative -skip quick1 -skip quickcontrols -qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -no-opengl -platform win32-g++
mingw32-make
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cd qtmultimedia
C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase\bin\qmake C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtmultimedia\qtmultimedia.pro -o Makefile
mingw32-make -f Makefile
cd ../
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mingw32-make
mingw32-make install
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[compor]

ah, i'm glad cause dusting off my windows partition and trying to install it there was gonna take a while.

[michal.lohnisky]

Thx for your help.

[VoiD]

I will try that !
Thank you !

[quote author="michal.lohnisky" date="1376844399"]I figured it out. There is qtmultimedia folder in qt-everywhere, but the configure does not create a Makefile (don't know why), so I had to create it manualy. There are updated steps I used to build Qt5 statically:
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configure -static -debug-and-release -opensource -nomake tests -nomake examples -skip declarative -skip quick1 -skip quickcontrols -qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -no-opengl -platform win32-g++
mingw32-make
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cd qtmultimedia
C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtbase\bin\qmake C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.1.0\qtmultimedia\qtmultimedia.pro -o Makefile
mingw32-make -f Makefile
cd ../
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mingw32-make
mingw32-make install
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