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

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      blu083 last edited by

      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

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      • SGaist
        SGaist Lifetime Qt Champion last edited by

        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.

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          blu083 last edited by

          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

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            blu083 last edited by

            Post parsing of code failed (please see below)

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              blu083 last edited by

              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'@

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              • SGaist
                SGaist Lifetime Qt Champion last edited by

                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.

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                  blu083 last edited by

                  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
                  @

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                    blu083 last edited by

                    [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.

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                    • SGaist
                      SGaist Lifetime Qt Champion last edited by

                      Looks like you didn't clean before re-configuring

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                        blu083 last edited by

                        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

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                        • SGaist
                          SGaist Lifetime Qt Champion last edited by

                          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
                          @

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                            blu083 last edited by

                            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'
                            @

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                            • SGaist
                              SGaist Lifetime Qt Champion last edited by

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

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                                blu083 last edited by

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

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                                • SGaist
                                  SGaist Lifetime Qt Champion last edited by

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

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                                    blu083 last edited by

                                    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
                                    @

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                                    • SGaist
                                      SGaist Lifetime Qt Champion last edited by

                                      Simple, you don't move a build

                                      Did you cleanup your project before running qmake ?

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                                        blu083 last edited by

                                        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.

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                                        • SGaist
                                          SGaist Lifetime Qt Champion last edited by

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

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                                            blu083 last edited by

                                            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.

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