Unable to build standalone executable on Windows 7, Qt5.3.1

[blu083]

I've been trying to follow this: https://qt-project.org/wiki/Build_Standalone_Qt_Application_for_Windows

But recently discovered that because I used the online installer and did NOT build from source, that the directions weren't originally relevant. I now have 5.3.1 source downloaded and get the following error:

cd <path>\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-<version>
configure -static -release -platform win32-msvc

• cd qtbase
• C:\Users\me\Desktop\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.3.1\qtbase\configure.bat -top-level -static -release -platform win32-msvc
  Invalid option "win32-msvc" for -platform.
  See the README file for a list of supported operating systems and compilers.

I've tried this in the following command prompts:
VS2013 x86 Native Tools Command Prompt
VS2013 x64 Native Tools Command Prompt
VS2013 x64 Cross Tools Command Prompt

Qt 5.3.1
Windows 7, 64-bit
VS2013 compiler

[SGaist]

Hi and welcome to devnet,

You don't need to set platform. Just call configure -static -release from the top of the sources and then nmake (or jom) and you should be good to go.

[blu083]

Thanks, looking forward to doing more with Qt!

I was able to configure after reading the README, but the build failed. Note that I have the directory with all the source files on my Desktop.

Input:
@configure -prefix

[blu083]

Post parsing of code failed (please see below)

[blu083]

Thanks, looking forward to doing more with Qt!

I was able to configure after reading the README, but the build failed. Note that I have the directory with all the source files on my Desktop.

Input:
@configure -prefix <current directory>\qtbase -opensource -nomake tests
nmake@

Output:
@bq. bq. mt.exe : general error c101008d: Failed to write the updated manifest to the resource of file "......\bin\qlalr.exe". The operation failed.
NMAKE : fatal error V1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x02'@

[SGaist]

Did you forget to confclean before reconfiguring ? You should consider doing an out of source build so if something goes wrong you can simply delete and restart.

[blu083]

And then when running in VS2013 x64 Native Tools Command Prompt:

Same input.

Output:
@
.obj\release\qmalloc.obj : fatal error LNK1112: module machine type 'X86' conflicts with target machine type 'x64'

return code '0x458
@

[blu083]

[quote author="SGaist" date="1410216345"]Did you forget to confclean before reconfiguring ? You should consider doing an out of source build so if something goes wrong you can simply delete and restart.[/quote]

Yes, I did, trying that now. Can you provide the command line syntax for an 'out of source' build? I'm unclear on where I can specify source code path and then output path.

[SGaist]

Looks like you didn't clean before re-configuring

[blu083]

Sorry, can you tell me how to clean? Something seems different in qt5.

It no longer seems to be:
@
make confclean
@

run from that same directory.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6067271/qt-when-builing-qt-from-source-how-do-i-clean-old-configure-configurations

[SGaist]

pseudo bash:

@
C:\Users\me\Desktop
mkdir build_qt5
cd build_qt5
..\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.3.1\configure -release -static -nomake examples -nomake demos
@

[blu083]

I'm unable to build. Trying to be very explicit about my process. Things terminate with error U1077.

This post seems to suggest something along the lines of a bad example or needing to disable my antivirus?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10356198/error-when-compiling-qt-nmake-fatal-error-u1077

@

Open VS2013 x64 Native Tools Command Prompt

Install perl, git, python, ruby

Perl

Git

Python

[Ruby](1.9.3 http://www.rubyinstaller.org/downloads/

Restart command prompt (and potentially machine) and ensure

these all now exist in your PATH variable

perl --version
git --version
python --version
ruby --version

Make separate directories for the source and build

cd \Users\blu083\Desktop
mkdir qt5source
mkdir qt5build

cd qt5source
git clone https://github.com/qtproject/qt5.git
// May have to move folders around
git checkout 5.3.1
perl init-repository

Clean any potential previous configuration

cd \Users\blu083\Desktop\qt5source
git submodule foreach --recursive "git clean -dfx"

Create the config file

cd \Users\blu083\Desktop\qt5build
C:\Users\blu083\Desktop\qt5source\configure -release -opensource -static -nomake examples

Compile to the build directory

cd \Users\blu083\Desktop\qt5build
nmake
...
mt.exe : general error c101008d: Failed to write the updated manifest to the resource of file "......\bin\moc.exe". The operation failed.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\bin\x64\mt.exe"' : return code '0x1f'
@

[SGaist]

Indeed, depending on which anti-virus you have on your computer, it may interfere with the creation of executable files.

[blu083]

Woo hoo! Turning off my antivirus and running as administrator did it.

[SGaist]

You shouldn't need to run it as admin. Standard user should be enough to build and run.

[blu083]

Continuing with the directions here: https://qt-project.org/wiki/Build_Standalone_Qt_Application_for_Windows

It's unclear where I place the static build. At the highest level of my application? I also get stopped again by the following error in my process. Note that my PATH variable does NOT have a path to qmake, so I put in the full path to be more explicit about everything. I may end up needed an absolute path to mt.exe as well:

@

Open VS2013 x64 Native Tools Command Prompt

cd \Users\blu083\Desktop\MyQtProject\MyProjectApp
C:\Qt\5.3\msvc2013_64\bin\qmake MyApp.pro
nmake release
error LNK2038: mismatch detected for 'RuntimeLibrary': value 'MD_DynamicRelease' doesn't match value 'MT_StaticRelease' in MainWindow.obj
cd release
mt.exe -manifest MyApp.exe.manifest -outputresource: MyApp.exe;1
@

[SGaist]

Simple, you don't move a build

Did you cleanup your project before running qmake ?

[blu083]

Yes. But I still don't understand how are my built libraries found. Will these now conflict with files under @C:\Qt@ directory? Can I delete the qt5build directory from my desktop?

I am now getting problems where I cannot build a release via QtCreator:
@
MSVCRT.lib(MSVCR120.dll):-1: error: LNK2005: memmove already defined in LIBCMT.lib(memcpy.obj)
MSVCRT.lib(MSVCR120.dll):-1: error: LNK2005: free already defined in LIBCMT.lib(free.obj)
MSVCRT.lib(MSVCR120.dll):-1: error: LNK2005: malloc already defined in LIBCMT.lib(malloc.obj)
...
qtmain.lib(qtmain_win.obj):-1: error: LNK2038: mismatch detected for 'RuntimeLibrary': value 'MD_DynamicRelease' doesn't match value 'MT_StaticRelease' in Settings.obj
...
LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'MSVCRT' conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library
@

This problem only seems to exist on the PC on which I did a static build. A new PC, that I just downloaded Qt5.3 onto does NOT get these errors.

[SGaist]

Did you by any chance modify Qt's sources to link against Visual Studio's static run time ?

[blu083]

I followed the directions as closely as I could. My steps are explicitly documented in this thread. I, I don't know what to do anymore. I think I'm going to build chrome apps.