[Solved] Awesome QML Presentation Code won't build or run on Linux or Mac

drewpotter

Dear All,

I have discovered this amazing QML Presentation code, mentioned on the Qt blog:
http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2011/05/30/a-qml-presentation-system/

The code is here:
https://qt.gitorious.org/qt-labs/qml-presentation-system/source/653149a7cd455f2619af2bd54280eebecef87ea4:

When I try and follow the instructions to run 'make install' I just get some errors:

$ qmake
Info: creating stash file /Users/denisepotter/Downloads/qt-labs-qml-presentation-system/.qmake.stash

$ make
cd src/ && ( test -e Makefile || /usr/bin/qmake /Users/denisepotter/Downloads/qt-labs-qml-presentation-system/src/src.pro -o Makefile ) && /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -f Makefile
WARNING: qmlfiles2build: Cannot access directory '/usr/qml/Qt/labs/presentation'
WARNING: qmlfiles2build: Cannot access directory '/usr/qml/Qt/labs/presentation'
WARNING: qmlfiles2build: Cannot access directory '/usr/qml/Qt/labs/presentation'
WARNING: qmlfiles2build: Cannot access directory '/usr/qml/Qt/labs/presentation'
WARNING: qmlfiles2build: Cannot access directory '/usr/qml/Qt/labs/presentation'
WARNING: qmlfiles2build: Cannot access directory '/usr/qml/Qt/labs/presentation'
cp -f qmldir /usr/qml/Qt/labs/presentation/qmldir
cp: /usr/qml/Qt/labs/presentation/qmldir: No such file or directory

I would love to use this code in my App to have amazing presentations but I am stuck with regards to getting this example up and running.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Drew

SGaist

Hi,

Which version of Qt are you running ? And how did you install it ?

The error comes from the fact that your are trying to copy files and folder in the /usr folder which you don't have write access to (it's normal)

drewpotter

I am using Qt version 5.3.1 and I compiled it from source using prefix=/usr

SGaist

That what I would call a Bad Idea (™)

You could be overwriting your distribution provided Qt with that.

Either use a prefix like /usr/local/, /opt/local/, a folder in your home directory or just the default but not /usr

drewpotter

Would this be the reason why it wants to install in:
/usr/qml/Qt/labs/presentation/qmldir

SGaist

It is, yes

drewpotter

Thanks, I have got the Awesome Presentation Code working now.

Peace.

SGaist

You're welcome !

Now you have it working, please update the thread title prepending [solved] so other forum users may know a solution has been found :)