Linker QT error

Zola

Even if I added [qt+=multimedia to my qt4.8.6 .pro file, I get these errors:

mainwindow.o: In function MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget*)': /home/ubuntuccbbb/build-videoplayerbbb-Qt_for_BBB-Debug/../videoplayerbbb/mainwindow.cpp:20: undefined reference to QMediaServiceProvider::defaultServiceProvider()'
/home/ubuntuccbbb/build-videoplayerbbb-Qt_for_BBB-Debug/../videoplayerbbb/mainwindow.cpp:20: undefined reference to QMediaPlayer::QMediaPlayer(QObject*, QFlags<QMediaPlayer::Flag>, QMediaServiceProvider*)' /home/ubuntuccbbb/build-videoplayerbbb-Qt_for_BBB-Debug/../videoplayerbbb/mainwindow.cpp:22: undefined reference to QMediaPlaylist::QMediaPlaylist(QObject*)'
/home/ubuntuccbbb/build-videoplayerbbb-Qt_for_BBB-Debug/../videoplayerbbb/mainwindow.cpp:23: undefined reference to QMediaContent::QMediaContent(QUrl const&)' /home/ubuntuccbbb/build-videoplayerbbb-Qt_for_BBB-Debug/../videoplayerbbb/mainwindow.cpp:23: undefined reference to QMediaPlaylist::addMedia(QMediaContent const&)'
/home/ubuntuccbbb/build-videoplayerbbb-Qt_for_BBB-Debug/../videoplayerbbb/mainwindow.cpp:23: undefined reference to QMediaContent::~QMediaContent()' /home/ubuntuccbbb/build-videoplayerbbb-Qt_for_BBB-Debug/../videoplayerbbb/mainwindow.cpp:24: undefined reference to QMediaContent::QMediaContent(QUrl const&)'
/home/ubuntuccbbb/build-videoplayerbbb-Qt_for_BBB-Debug/../videoplayerbbb/mainwindow.cpp:24: undefined reference to QMediaPlaylist::addMedia(QMediaContent const&)' /home/ubuntuccbbb/build-videoplayerbbb-Qt_for_BBB-Debug/../videoplayerbbb/mainwindow.cpp:24: undefined reference to QMediaContent::~QMediaContent()'
/home/ubuntuccbbb/build-videoplayerbbb-Qt_for_BBB-Debug/../videoplayerbbb/mainwindow.cpp:26: undefined reference to QVideoWidget::QVideoWidget(QWidget*)' /home/ubuntuccbbb/build-videoplayerbbb-Qt_for_BBB-Debug/../videoplayerbbb/mainwindow.cpp:27: undefined reference to QMediaPlayer::setVideoOutput(QVideoWidget*)'
/home/ubuntuccbbb/build-videoplayerbbb-Qt_for_BBB-Debug/../videoplayerbbb/mainwindow.cpp:30: undefined reference to QMediaPlaylist::setCurrentIndex(int)' /home/ubuntuccbbb/build-videoplayerbbb-Qt_for_BBB-Debug/../videoplayerbbb/mainwindow.cpp:31: undefined reference to QMediaPlayer::play()'
/home/ubuntuccbbb/build-videoplayerbbb-Qt_for_BBB-Debug/../videoplayerbbb/mainwindow.cpp:23: undefined reference to QMediaContent::~QMediaContent()' /home/ubuntuccbbb/build-videoplayerbbb-Qt_for_BBB-Debug/../videoplayerbbb/mainwindow.cpp:24: undefined reference to QMediaContent::~QMediaContent()'

What more to try?

SGaist

Hi,

That because it's not directly part of Qt 4. You need the Qt Mobility module.

Zola

@SGaist How to include qt mobility in my .pro file?

QT += mobility doesn't work

SGaist

You need to build and install the module first. After that you can use QT += multimedia

Zola

@SGaist I added it but it still doesn't work.

jsulm

@Zola Did you do this first "You need to build and install the module first" as suggested by SGaist??

Zola

@jsulm Yes module is installed, and it doesn't work.

Here are the steps I gone through to make project:

1)Created new project in Qt Creator.

in my main.cpp file I insterted this code

#include "mainwindow.h"
#include <QApplication>
#include <QMediaPlaylist>
#include <qmobilityglobal.h>
#include <QVideoWidget>
#include <QMediaPlayer>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QApplication a(argc, argv);

QMediaPlayer *player = new QMediaPlayer;

QMediaPlaylist *playlist = new QMediaPlaylist(player);
playlist->addMedia(QUrl("http://example.com/myclip1.mp4"));
playlist->addMedia(QUrl("http://example.com/myclip2.mp4"));

QVideoWidget *videoWidget = new QVideoWidget;
player->setVideoOutput(videoWidget);

videoWidget->show();
playlist->setCurrentIndex(1);
player->play();

return a.exec();

}

and changed my pro file to this:

#-------------------------------------------------

Project created by QtCreator 2015-11-26T03:58:31

#-------------------------------------------------

QT += core gui multimedia multimediawidgets

greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets

TARGET = videoplater
TEMPLATE = app

INCLUDEPATH += /usr/include/QtMobility/
INCLUDEPATH += /usr/include/QtMultimediaKit/

SOURCES += main.cpp
mainwindow.cpp

HEADERS += mainwindow.h

FORMS += mainwindow.ui

and it gives me errors I wrote above.

jsulm

Same compiler error messages?

SGaist

Are you sure you built Qt Mobility with the right version of Qt ?

Zola

@jsulm Look at post above :) I built it with 4.8.7.

SGaist

One thing that looks suspicious is that you added the include path to QtMobility. If you needed to do that, you would also have to add the link part i.e. LIBS += -lQtMultiMedia -lQtMultiMediaWidgets.

But it looks like either Qt Mobility is not correctly installed or not built with the same version of Qt you are currently using.

Zola

@SGaist How I can install required Qt Mobility version when building my qt 4.8.7? ./configure -mobility? or?

SGaist

First clone the qt-mobility sources:
git clone git://code.qt.io/qt-mobility/qt-mobility.git

Do an out of source build:
mkdir qt-mobility-build
cd qt-mobility-build
/path/to/qt-mobility/configure -qmake-exec /path/to/your/qmake
make && make install