QT5.6 windows10 64bit build from source failing...

Ollie

Anyone having problems getting a 64bit windows build from source? I'm following the steps in the online doco outlined exactly but I'm getting all sorts of errors. And have also tried some variations.

linker cd errors, compiler not supported, etc, etc...

I can do a 32bit build OK. But as soon as I specify amd64 there's no end of trouble.

Also, I can't to a -opengl desktop build for winrt. It complains that a non opengl build is not an option??

I have visual studio 2015 community installed.

jsulm

Without more details (at which step does it fail? what error do you get?...) it is not possible to see what is the problem.

jsulm

Is there a reason why you try to build Qt?
Why not just use the installer?

Paul Colby

Did you include the "x64 Compilers and Tools" option when you installed VS?

I'm not sure how it is for VS 2015 Community Edition, but back in the days of the free "Express" editions, those free versions never included the x64 compilers, but you could still install them separately by downloading the latest Windows SDK. (I can't see any MS documentation as to if that's still the case or not - maybe its not an issue any more?).

Ollie

@jsulm Here are some details about the config and where it's falling over

I'm doing a shadow build using a git check out.

This is the git info

PS> git remote show origin

remote origin
Fetch URL: git://code.qt.io/qt/qt5.git
Push URL: git://code.qt.io/qt/qt5.git
HEAD branch: 5.6
Remote branches:
5.3 tracked
5.3.0 tracked
5.3.1 tracked
5.3.2 tracked
5.4 tracked
5.4.0 tracked
5.4.1 tracked
5.4.2 tracked
5.5 tracked
5.5.0 tracked
5.5.1 tracked
5.6 tracked
5.6.0 tracked
5.7 tracked
dev tracked
Local branch configured for 'git pull':
5.6 merges with remote 5.6
Local ref configured for 'git push':
5.6 pushes to 5.6 (up to date)

launch a cmd prompt with the following vars.cmd passing it %1=win32-msvc2015 for the qmakespec

@echo Building for %1
@CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86 // <--x86 build
SET _ROOT=D:\qt5
SET PATH=%_ROOT%\qtbase\lib;%_ROOT%\qtbase\bin;%_ROOT%\gnuwin32\bin;%PATH%
REM Uncomment the below line when using a git checkout of the source repository
SET PATH=%_ROOT%\qtrepotools\bin;%PATH%
SET QMAKESPEC=%1
SET _ROOT=

..\qt5\configure -opensource -confirm-license -opengl desktop -prefix d:\qt-raw

Environment:
INCLUDE=
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\INCLUDE
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\ATLMFC\INCLUDE
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.10586.0\ucrt
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\NETFXSDK\4.6.1\include\um
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.10586.0\shared
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.10586.0\um
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.10586.0\winrt

LIB=
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\LIB
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\ATLMFC\LIB
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\lib\10.0.10586.0\ucrt\x86
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\NETFXSDK\4.6.1\lib\um\x86
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\lib\10.0.10586.0\um\x86

PATH=
  D:\qt5\qtrepotools\bin
  D:\qt5\qtbase\lib
  D:\qt5\qtbase\bin
  D:\qt5\gnuwin32\bin
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow
  C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\BIN
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\Tools
  C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\VCPackages
  C:\Program Files (x86)\HTML Help Workshop
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Team Tools\Performance Tools
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x86
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.6.1 Tools\
  C:\Perl64\site\bin
  C:\Perl64\bin
  C:\Users\Oliver\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\
  C:\Users\Oliver\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\Scripts\
  C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin
  C:\cygwin64\bin
  C:\cygwin64\usr\local\IMOD\bin
  C:\Program Files\VTK\bin
  C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\server\bin
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin
  C:\Windows\system32
  C:\Windows
  C:\Windows\System32\Wbem
  C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
  C:\Program Files\Git\cmd
  C:\Users\Oliver\.dnx\bin
  C:\Program Files\Microsoft DNX\Dnvm\
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++
  C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake\bin
  C:\Program Files\doxygen\bin
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Windows Performance Toolkit\
  C:\Qt5.6\Tools\QtCreator\bin
  C:\Users\Oliver\Documents\bin
  C:\Perl64\site\bin
  C:\Perl64\bin
  C:\Users\Oliver\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\
  C:\Users\Oliver\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\Scripts\
  C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin
  C:\cygwin64\bin
  C:\cygwin64\usr\local\IMOD\bin
  C:\Program Files\VTK\bin
  C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\server\bin
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin
  C:\Windows\system32
  C:\Windows
  C:\Windows\System32\Wbem
  C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
  C:\Program Files\Git\cmd
  C:\Users\Oliver\.dnx\bin
  C:\Program Files\Microsoft DNX\Dnvm\
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++
  C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake\bin
  C:\Program Files\doxygen\bin
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Windows Performance Toolkit\
  C:\Qt5.6\Tools\QtCreator\bin

Configuration:
pcre
debug
compile_examples
Qt Configuration:
minimal-config
small-config
medium-config
large-config
full-config
debug_and_release build_all release
debug
shared
zlib
png
freetype
harfbuzz
build_all
accessibility
opengl
dbus
audio-backend
directwrite
native-gestures
qpa
concurrent

QMAKESPEC...................win32-msvc2015 (env)
Architecture................i386, features: sse sse2
Host Architecture...........i386, features: sse sse2
Maketool....................nmake
Debug build.................yes (combined)
Default build...............debug
Force debug info............no
Force optimized tools.......no
C++ language standard.......auto
Link Time Code Generation...no
Accessibility support.......yes
RTTI support................yes
SSE2 support................yes
SSE3 support................yes
SSSE3 support...............yes
SSE4.1 support..............yes
SSE4.2 support..............yes
AVX support.................yes
AVX2 support................yes
NEON support................no
OpenGL support..............yes
Large File support..........yes
NIS support.................no
Iconv support...............no
Evdev support...............no
Mtdev support...............no
Inotify support.............no
eventfd(7) support..........no
Glib support................no
CUPS support................no
OpenVG support..............no
SSL support.................no
OpenSSL support.............no
libproxy support............no
Qt D-Bus support............runtime
Qt Widgets module support...yes
Qt GUI module support.......yes
QML debugging...............yes
DirectWrite support.........yes
Use system proxies..........no

QPA Backends:
GDI.....................yes
Direct2D................no

Third Party Libraries:
ZLIB support............qt
GIF support.............plugin
JPEG support............plugin
PNG support.............yes
FreeType support........yes
Fontconfig support......no
HarfBuzz support........qt
PCRE support............qt
ICU support.............no
ANGLE...................no
Dynamic OpenGL..........no

Styles:
Windows.................yes
Windows XP..............yes
Windows Vista...........yes
Fusion..................yes
Windows CE..............no
Windows Mobile..........no

Sql Drivers:
ODBC....................no
MySQL...................no
OCI.....................no
PostgreSQL..............no
TDS.....................no
DB2.....................no
SQLite..................plugin (qt)
SQLite2.................no
InterBase...............no

Sources are in..............d:\qt5\qtbase
Build is done in............D:\qt-build\qtbase
Install prefix..............d:\qt-raw
Headers installed to........d:\qt-raw\include
Libraries installed to......d:\qt-raw\lib
Arch-dep. data to...........d:\qt-raw
Plugins installed to........d:\qt-raw\plugins
Library execs installed to..d:\qt-raw\bin
QML1 imports installed to...d:\qt-raw\imports
QML2 imports installed to...d:\qt-raw\qml
Binaries installed to.......d:\qt-raw\bin
Arch-indep. data to.........d:\qt-raw
Docs installed to...........d:\qt-raw\doc
Translations installed to...d:\qt-raw\translations
Examples installed to.......d:\qt-raw\examples
Tests installed to..........d:\qt-raw\tests

Info: creating super cache file D:\qt-build.qmake.super

Qt is now configured for building. Just run nmake.
To reconfigure, run nmake confclean and configure.

jom 2> error.txt

jom 1.1.0 - empower your cores

jom: D:\qt-build\qtbase\src\corelib\Makefile.Debug [.obj\debug\qtimer.obj] Error 2
jom: D:\qt-build\qtbase\src\corelib\Makefile.Debug [.obj\debug\qstatemachine.obj] Error 2
jom: D:\qt-build\qtbase\src\corelib\Makefile.Release [.obj\release\qtimer.obj] Error 2
jom: D:\qt-build\qtbase\src\corelib\Makefile.Release [.obj\release\qstatemachine.obj] Error 2
jom: D:\qt-build\qtbase\src\corelib\Makefile [debug-all] Error 2
jom: D:\qt-build\qtbase\src\corelib\Makefile [release-all] Error 2
jom: D:\qt-build\qtbase\src\Makefile [sub-corelib-make_first] Error 2
jom: D:\qt-build\qtbase\Makefile [sub-src-make_first] Error 2
jom: D:\qt-build\Makefile [module-qtbase-make_first] Error 2

doing the same using nmake 2> error.txt I get

jom 1.1.0 - empower your cores

jom: D:\qt-build\qtbase\src\corelib\Makefile.Debug [.obj\debug\qtimer.obj] Error 2
jom: D:\qt-build\qtbase\src\corelib\Makefile.Release [.obj\release\qtimer.obj] Error 2
jom: D:\qt-build\qtbase\src\corelib\Makefile.Debug [.obj\debug\qstatemachine.obj] Error 2
jom: D:\qt-build\qtbase\src\corelib\Makefile [debug-all] Error 2
jom: D:\qt-build\qtbase\src\corelib\Makefile [release-all] Error 2
jom: D:\qt-build\qtbase\src\Makefile [sub-corelib-make_first] Error 2
jom: D:\qt-build\qtbase\Makefile [sub-src-make_first] Error 2
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
Stop.

I've tried the same against the tar download and I get the same issues. Also I've tried amd64 and x86 build and it ends the same.

Cheers
Ollie

jsulm

You should check the whole jom output not only standard error. Lines like this do not tell anything:

jom: D:\qt-build\qtbase\Makefile [sub-src-make_first] Error 2

Ollie

@jsulm I need to build it to enable the -opengl desktop option. Windows build used ANGLE which is no good to me.

Chris Kawa

@Ollie said:

Also, I can't to a -opengl desktop build for winrt.

Microsoft does not support OpenGL in WinRT so using ANGLE (which translates OpenGL to DirectX calls) is the only option for that platform.

Ollie

@jsulm Yes indeed. I've piped everything to a file and it looks like it's having problems with qtimer.cpp.

cl -c -FIqt_pch.h -Yuqt_pch.h -Fp.pch\release\Qt5Core_pch.pch -nologo -Zc:wchar_t -FS -Zc:strictStrings -Zc:throwingNew -O2 -MD -EHsc -GR -W3 -w34100 -w34189 -w44996 -w44456 -w44457 -w44458 -wd4577 -DUNICODE -DWIN32 -DQT_NO_USING_NAMESPACE -DPCRE_STATIC -DQT_BUILD_CORE_LIB -DQT_BUILDING_QT -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS -D_USE_MATH_DEFINES -DQT_ASCII_CAST_WARNINGS -DQT_MOC_COMPAT -DQT_USE_QSTRINGBUILDER -DQT_DEPRECATED_WARNINGS -DQT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE=0x040800 -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DNDEBUG -ID:\qt5\qtbase\src\corelib -I. -ID:\qt5\qtbase\src\3rdparty\zlib -Iglobal -ID:\qt5\qtbase\src\3rdparty\pcre -ID:\qt5\qtbase\src\3rdparty\harfbuzz\src -ID:\qt5\qtbase\src\3rdparty\md5 -ID:\qt5\qtbase\src\3rdparty\md4 -ID:\qt5\qtbase\src\3rdparty\sha3 -I....\include -I....\include\QtCore -I....\include\QtCore\5.6.1 -I....\include\QtCore\5.6.1\QtCore -Itmp -I.moc\release -ID:\qt5\qtbase\mkspecs\win32-msvc2015 -Fo.obj\release\ @C:\Users\Oliver\AppData\Local\Temp\qtimer.obj.5372.29468.jom

qtimer.cpp

D:\qt5\qtbase\src\corelib\kernel\qtimer.cpp(590): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'qtimer.moc': No such file or

jsulm

Looks like moc was not executed before, but I don't know why.

Ollie

@Chris-Kawa OK thanks for that. I'm really aiming for a win32 (64bit) build. But my 32bit build is not working either. Looks like it's failing linking qtimer
can't find qtimer.moc

Ollie

@jsulm I've had a look in the src\corelib.moc\debug (and release) folders and there's a qtimer.moc and qstatemachine.moc file in the directory. Every other file is moc_qtimer.cpp, etc...

I assume that's standard.

Ollie

Solved it by compiling on a clean machine. I had a few versions of Qt already installed and other applications in my path that may have caused issues. Also did a new get checkout of the repo.