Running qmake and nmake commands
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wrote on 22 Jun 2014, 07:07 last edited by
In order to run a .bat file that has the commands-
qmake.exe aa.pro -r -spec win32-msvc2013++ "CONFIG+=release"
nmake
Do i have to have Qt creator installed on my computer or its enough to have qt libraries and dlls copied (of msvc2013) and debugging tools for windows? -
You do not need Qt Creator, it is "just" an IDE. qmake.exe is part of Qt libraries (located in qtbase/bin).
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wrote on 23 Jun 2014, 10:26 last edited by
Thank you!
I copied the libraries of msvc2013_64_opengl to be in the location:
D:\Qt5.3.0\5.3\msvc2013_64_opengl.
I set the environment variables to be:
@QTDIR = D:\Qt5.3.0\5.3\msvc2013_64_opengl
QMAKESPEC = win32-msvc2013
PATH = %PATH%;%QTDIR%\bin
@When I open the command line and run the command:
qmake.exe aa.pro -r -spec win32-msvc2013++ "CONFIG+=release"I get the error:
'qmake.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command.How can I solve it?
Is there anything else I need to do in order to run the qmake command?
like- configure something, install Qt version...
If so, how exactly should I do it? -
If you decide to copy Qt libraries, you are going to have trouble. Those can be solved, but it will definitely be painful. It's usually better to compile Qt on your own, or install the Qt package in a new location. Qt lib move can be made with help of a qt.conf file. You can search for more info on that in the documentation.
Now, qmake is missing from your path, because you set it up wrongly. qmake.exe resides in <qt dir>/qtbase/bin.
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wrote on 23 Jun 2014, 10:53 last edited by
Where? I don't see it. Inside qt dir that is: D:\Qt5.3.0\5.3\msvc2013_64_opengl
I see only: bin, imports, include, lib, mkspecs, phrasebooks, plugins, qml, translations.
(Meanwhile I want to try with out compiling Qt by my own or installing Qt on the PC I moving my project to) -
Well. Then, perhaps, just look around? Somewhere in your Qt installation folder, you will find a folder named qtbase, and it will contain a directory bin, and inside it, qmake.exe will be present. Ten just point PATH to there.
I don't normally use Qt installers, so I don't know exact path inside the installed bundle. I know it for Qt built from source, and that is what I have provided.
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wrote on 23 Jun 2014, 11:09 last edited by
Well. I searched around and there is no qtbase folder.
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Have you checked whether qmake.exe is in "bin" folder? It has to be somewhere.
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wrote on 23 Jun 2014, 11:20 last edited by
Yes. as I wrote at the beginning qmake.exe is at the location I put in the path: D:\Qt5.3.0\5.3\msvc2013_64_opengl\bin.
but I still then get the error: ‘qmake.exe’ is not recognized as an internal or external command. -
Oh, you did, indeed. I have missed or misunderstood that part.
Try cd'ing into QTDIR/bin and see if you can launch qmake from there. Maybe it is enough to skip .exe from the call (so, run qmake -v instead of qmake.exe -v). It's been a while since I launched qmake on Windows manually. Linux tends to be simpler to use in that regard.
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wrote on 23 Jun 2014, 13:00 last edited by
OK. I did so. Now it works well. but how can I make it work with out cd'ing to D:\Qt5.3.0\5.3\msvc2013_64_opengl\bin.
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You have already done that: by setting PATH (which on Windows is enclosed in percentage signs, of course) in the control panel.
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wrote on 23 Jun 2014, 13:13 last edited by
But if I am not launching qmake from D:\Qt5.3.0\5.3\msvc2013_64_opengl\bin I get the error: ‘qmake.exe’ is not recognized as an internal or external command.
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Make sure path is defined in your terminal by running this:
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echo %path%
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