Cannot configure Qt 4.7.4 with VS2008 - Error 1083

hasdjhf

Hi everyone, first time poster here.

So I've done the following steps:

Using Windows 8, 64-bit
Installed Visual Studio 2008 with all features (ie. including c++ compilers)
Downloaded the qt-everywhere-opensource .zip file for qt 4.7.4 and extracted it to D:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit
I am using Qt 4.7.4 because the program I'd like to develop for was originally built against Qt4.7.4
In the file mkspecs/win32-msvc2008/qmake.conf, I've changed the line that reads

QMAKE_LIBS_CORE = kernel32.lib user32.lib shell32.lib uuid.lib ole32.lib advapi32.lib ws2_32.lib

to

QMAKE_LIBS_CORE = ole32.lib uuid.lib ws2_32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib user32.lib kernel32.lib

This is supposedly in order to run the program I want to develop for.

However, when I go to the 64-bit command prompt for Visual Studio, and run the following command:

configure.exe -platform win32-msvc2008 -no-gif -qt-libpng -qt-zlib -no-libmng -qt-libtiff -qt-libjpeg -no-openssl -no-phonon -no-qt3support -D _BIND_TO_CURRENT_VCLIBS_VERSION=1

I get the following output:

Creating qmake...
cl -c -Fo./ -W3 -nologo -O2 /MP -I. -Igenerators -Igenerators\unix -Igenerators\win32 -Igenerators\mac -Igenerators\symbian -ID:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include -ID:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include\QtCore -ID:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include -ID:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include\QtCore -ID:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\src\corelib\global -ID:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\src\corelib\xml -ID:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\mkspecs\win32-msvc2008 -ID:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\tools\shared -DQT_NO_TEXTCODEC -DQT_NO_UNICODETABLES -DQT_LITE_COMPONENT -DQT_NODLL -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPRESS -DUNICODE -DHAVE_QCONFIG_CPP -DQT_BUILD_QMAKE -DQT_NO_THREAD -DQT_NO_QOBJECT -DQT_NO_GEOM_VARIANT -DQT_NO_DATASTREAM -DQT_NO_PCRE -DQT_BOOTSTRAPPED -DQLIBRARYINFO_EPOCROOT -c -Yc -Fpqmake_pch.pch -TP qmake_pch.h
cl : Command line warning D9030 : '/Yc' is incompatible with multiprocessing; ignoring /MP switch
include
c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include': No such file or directory
QtCore
c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include\QtCore': No such file or directory
include
c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include': No such file or directory
QtCore
c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include\QtCore': No such file or directory
global
c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\src\corelib\global': No such file or directory
xml
c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\src\corelib\xml': No such file or directory
win32-msvc2008
c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\mkspecs\win32-msvc2008': No such file or directory
shared
c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\tools\shared': No such file or directory
qmake_pch.h
qmake_pch.h(44) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'qglobal.h': No such file or directory

and

cl -c -Fo./ -W3 -nologo -O2 /MP -I. -Igenerators -Igenerators\unix -Igenerators\win32 -Igenerators\mac -Igenerators\symbian -ID:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include -ID:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include\QtCore -ID:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include -ID:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include\QtCore -ID:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\src\corelib\global -ID:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\src\corelib\xml -ID:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\mkspecs\win32-msvc2008 -ID:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\tools\shared -DQT_NO_TEXTCODEC -DQT_NO_UNICODETABLES -DQT_LITE_COMPONENT -DQT_NODLL -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPRESS -DUNICODE -DHAVE_QCONFIG_CPP -DQT_BUILD_QMAKE -DQT_NO_THREAD -DQT_NO_QOBJECT -DQT_NO_GEOM_VARIANT -DQT_NO_DATASTREAM -DQT_NO_PCRE -DQT_BOOTSTRAPPED -DQLIBRARYINFO_EPOCROOT -c -Yc -Fpqmake_pch.pch -TP qmake_pch.h
cl : Command line warning D9030 : '/Yc' is incompatible with multiprocessing; ignoring /MP switch
include
c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include': No such file or directory
QtCore
c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include\QtCore': No such file or directory
include
c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include': No such file or directory
QtCore
c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include\QtCore': No such file or directory
global
c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\src\corelib\global': No such file or directory
xml
c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\src\corelib\xml': No such file or directory
win32-msvc2008
c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\mkspecs\win32-msvc2008': No such file or directory
shared
c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\tools\shared': No such file or directory
qmake_pch.h
qmake_pch.h(44) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'qglobal.h': No such file or directory
Building qmake failed, return code 2

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Don't put Qt in a path with spaces, it's known to be problematic on this OS.

The recommended path on windows is C:\Qt\name_of_qt_version

hasdjhf

That did it! That's pretty embarrassing. I have a 128GB SSD that houses my OS, and a 1TB drive that I like to keep my data on. If I want to build Qt on my D drive, do I just need to make the path D:\Qt\4.7.4? Do you know what it is exactly that causes problems when the path becomes too long?

SGaist

That would be enough yes.

The command line (cmd/bash etc.) can pass only so much char to a command so if you use long paths you'll saturate the call quickly

hskoglund

Hi, in this case however I think it's the "embedded spaces" syndrome that strikes first, because Visual Studio does not see your path "D:\Program Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include", only "Files\Qt\4.7.4-64bit\include"