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jlayt

Hi, trying to build qtbase on WinXP using MSVC2008, followed the instructions exactly and it builds OK, but when when I try to run I get:

"Failed to load platform plugin "". Available platforms are: windows:

Any hints?

stottle

I am trying to build the qt5-alpha source from the zip download as I don't have git on my windows machine. Is there any way to do a "make clean"/"make confclean" without git?

Philius

I just happened to notice your posts - I didn't get an email notification.

According to configure, "To reconfigure, run 'make confclean' and 'configure'.".
Well you probably know that at least with Qt5 alpha, that doesn't work.

I'm on Debian so I can't offer any Windows wisdom, but for "make clean" I just delete the directory and re-unpack the alpha .tar.bz2 again.

I'm in the dark as to how to build/use the QtDeclarative component.
It appears that the header I'm looking for - "QtDeclarative/QDeclarativeComponent" isn't installed although it's in the source tree - yes I built/installed qtjsbackend and qtdeclarative.

Also, it would be nice if Qt5 beta had a top-level makefile that included targets for
linux-x86-32-gcc-x11
linux-x86-64-gcc-x11
windows7-64-msvc2010

and so on, so we could be sure we're building against a known and tested build configuration.

And yes, it should fail if any prerequisites are missing (and maybe print warnings if they are different versions).

thinks

Hi All,

I'm trying to building Qt5 om Mac OSX 10.7. Following the instructions given here:

http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building_Qt_5_from_Git

However, I'm running into an issue in the build-step which I'm not
sure how to solve. One of the errors I'm getting is the following:

gcc: error: tools/qlocale_mac.mm: Objective-C++ compiler not installed
on this system

I will give a detailed step-by-step descriptions of my process below,
assuming the starting point to be a blank shell with PWD=$HOME:

(1) git clone git://gitorious.org/qt/qt5.git qt5 [check!]

(2) cd qt5 [check!] :)

(3) perl init-repository --no-webkit [check! Does its job without complaining. I can provide the log if necessary]

(4) unset QTDIR [check!] :)

(5) export PATH="$PWD/qtbase/bin:$PWD/qtrepotools/bin:$PATH" [check!] :)

(6) ./configure -developer-build -opensource -nomake examples -nomake
tests [check! See below]

Get a few warnings about some Qt header not containing macros, e.g.:

QtCore: WARNING:
/Users/thinks/qt5/qtbase/src/corelib/qtcoreversion.h does
not include QT_BEGIN_HEADER

but they don't seem severe. Other relevant output:

Build type: macx-clang
Architecture: x86_64
Host architecture: x86_64
Platform notes:

Also available for Mac OS X: macx-g++

(7) ./build -j 4

This is where the trouble begins. The following (first) error is given:

[Lots of output without errors...]
qabstractanimation.h -o .moc/debug-shared/moc_qabstractanimation.cpp
gcc: error: tools/qlocale_mac.mm: Objective-C++ compiler not installed
on this system
gcc: error: kernel/qcore_mac_objc.mm: Objective-C++ compiler not
installed on this system

Similar errors are reported further on as well, all with the same
reason given. It seems somewhat strange that gcc is used over g++, but
at the moment I'm not really sure why this happens.

Some info about gcc:

[thinks@wiggs ~] gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.8.0 20120408 (experimental)

Any advice greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

T

ludde

@thinks, did you try to "build the 5.0 alpha":http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-5-Alpha-building-instructions instead? Might be easier than building from git.

thinks

Thanks, Ludde! :)

We finally got it working here. The following was required:

Grab latest from Qt5 git repo.
git clone git://gitorious.org/qt/qt5.git qt5
Use Qt's provided tool to initialize the repo.
cd qt5
perl init-repository --no-webkit
Set up our build environment.
unset QTDIR
export PATH="$PWD/qtbase/bin:$PWD/qtrepotools/bin:$PATH"
export PATH=/Applications/XCode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin:$PATH
export CPP=clang++
export CC=clang
echo PATH $PATH
Pre-build configuration. Note that we are forcing it to build using
the Xcode compilers.
./configure -no-pch -developer-build -confirm-license -opensource
-release -nomake demos -nomake examples -arch x86 -sdk
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.7.sdk
Build. We could increase the number of course to improve speed once
we are convinced that this works well...
./build -j 1

Not sure all of that stuff is required though, but because the build time is quite steep (even with j > 1) we didn't have time to narrow it down.

Cheers,

T

Bloops

hi .

I am currently doing the Qt5 manipulation and I have one little question ^^ .

Is it possible to realize a configuration (./configure) in static Qt5 mode (-static) by incorporing the QtSerialPort class, which we must add to our pre-existing library thanks to that manipulation: http://qt-project.org/wiki/QtSerialPort ?

If this is not possible to change QtSerialPort in static library, but just the QT5 library . When I will compile my project which uses QtSerialPort, will it run like a static program or I need to include a .so (or dll) ?

Sorry for my bad english .

tonys10

I am having trouble building Qt5......

I have Visual Studio 2008 andf have installed the latest SDK......

C:\qt5>configure -developer-build -opensource -nomake examples -nomake tests

C:/qt5/qtbase/configure -developer-build -opensource -nomake examples -nomake
tests
Please wait while bootstrapping configure ...

    cl -c -Yc -nologo -Zm200 -Zc:wchar_t -MT -W3 -GR -EHsc -w34100 -w34189

-DUNICODE -DQT_NODLL -DQT_NO_CODECS -DQT_NO_TEXTCODEC -DQT_NO_UNICODETABLES -DQT
_LITE_COMPONENT -DQT_NO_COMPRESS -DQT_NO_THREAD -DQT_NO_QOBJECT -DQT_NO_GEOM_VAR
IANT -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -DQT_BOOTSTRAPPED -DCOMMERCIAL_VERSION -I"....
include" -I"....\include\QtCore" -I"....\include\QtCore\5.0.0" -I"....\includ
e\QtCore\5.0.0\QtCore" -I"C:\qt5\qtbase\tools\shared" -I"C:\qt5\qtbase\mkspecs\w
in32-msvc2008" -Fpconfigure_pch.pch -Foconfigure_pch.obj -TP C:\qt5\qtbase\tools
\configure\configure_pch.h

Command line warning D4002 : ignoring unknown option '-Zc'
Command line warning D4002 : ignoring unknown option '-Z:'
Command line warning D4002 : ignoring unknown option '-Zw'
Command line warning D4002 : ignoring unknown option '-Zc'
Command line warning D4002 : ignoring unknown option '-Zh'
Command line warning D4002 : ignoring unknown option '-Zr'
Command line warning D4002 : ignoring unknown option '-Z_'
Command line warning D4002 : ignoring unknown option '-Zt'
Command line warning D4002 : ignoring unknown option '-w34100'
Command line warning D4002 : ignoring unknown option '-w34189'

configure_pch.h
....\include\QtCore../../src/corelib/global/qglobal.h(45) : fatal error C1083:
Cannot open include file: 'stddef.h': No such file or directory
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
*** qtbase/configure exited with non-zero status.

Sfiet_Konstantin

I have a proble compiling Qt5 master recently
(Linux x86_64 Mageia, GCC 4.7.1)

make[2] : on entre dans le répertoire « /home/qtdev/srcs/qt5/qtsystems/src/systeminfo »
g++ -c -m64 -pipe -g -std=c++0x -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -fno-exceptions -fPIC -DQT_SHARED -DQT_COMPILER_SUPPORTS_SSE2 -DQT_COMPILER_SUPPORTS_SSE3 -DQT_COMPILER_SUPPORTS_SSSE3 -DQT_COMPILER_SUPPORTS_SSE4_1 -DQT_COMPILER_SUPPORTS_SSE4_2 -DQT_COMPILER_SUPPORTS_AVX -DQT_COMPILER_SUPPORTS_AVX2 -DQT_BUILD_SYSTEMINFO_LIB -DQT_MAKEDLL -DQT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII -DQT_ASCII_CAST_WARNINGS -DQT_MOC_COMPAT -DQT_USE_QSTRINGBUILDER -DQT_DEPRECATED_WARNINGS -DQT_NO_MTLIB -DQT_NO_SFW_NETREG -DQT_NO_OFONO -DQT_NO_UDISKS -DQT_NO_LIBSYSINFO -DQT_QML_LIB -DQQmlImageProvider=QQuickImageProvider -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_NO_EXCEPTIONS -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -I/home/qtdev/mkspecs/default -I. -I/home/qtdev/include/QtCore -I/home/qtdev/include/QtGui -I/home/qtdev/include/QtNetwork -I/home/qtdev/include -I/home/qtdev/include/QtQml -I/home/qtdev/include/QtJsonDb -I../../include/QtSystemInfo/5.0.0 -I../../include/QtSystemInfo/5.0.0/QtSystemInfo -I../../include -I../../include/QtSystemInfo -I../../include -I.rcc/debug-shared -I.moc/debug-shared -o .obj/debug-shared/qnetworkinfo_linux.o qnetworkinfo_linux.cpp
In file included from qnetworkinfo_linux.cpp:56:0:
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h: In function ‘uint64_t bt_get_le64(const void*)’:
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:159:9: erreur: expected identifier before ‘’ token
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:159:9: erreur: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘(’ token
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:159:9: erreur: expected ‘;’ at end of member declaration
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:159:9: erreur: ‘__v’ does not name a type
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:159:9: erreur: ‘typeof’ was not declared in this scope
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:159:9: erreur: ‘struct bt_get_le64(const void)::<anonymous>’ has no member named ‘__v’
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h: In function ‘uint64_t bt_get_be64(const void*)’:
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:164:9: erreur: expected identifier before ‘’ token
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:164:9: erreur: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘(’ token
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:164:9: erreur: expected ‘;’ at end of member declaration
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:164:9: erreur: ‘__v’ does not name a type
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:164:9: erreur: ‘typeof’ was not declared in this scope
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:164:9: erreur: ‘struct bt_get_be64(const void)::<anonymous>’ has no member named ‘__v’
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h: In function ‘uint32_t bt_get_le32(const void*)’:
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:169:9: erreur: expected identifier before ‘’ token
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:169:9: erreur: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘(’ token
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:169:9: erreur: expected ‘;’ at end of member declaration
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:169:9: erreur: ‘__v’ does not name a type
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:169:9: erreur: ‘typeof’ was not declared in this scope
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:169:9: erreur: ‘struct bt_get_le32(const void)::<anonymous>’ has no member named ‘__v’
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h: In function ‘uint32_t bt_get_be32(const void*)’:
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:174:9: erreur: expected identifier before ‘’ token
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:174:9: erreur: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘(’ token
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:174:9: erreur: expected ‘;’ at end of member declaration
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:174:9: erreur: ‘__v’ does not name a type
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:174:9: erreur: ‘typeof’ was not declared in this scope
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:174:9: erreur: ‘struct bt_get_be32(const void)::<anonymous>’ has no member named ‘__v’
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h: In function ‘uint16_t bt_get_le16(const void*)’:
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:179:9: erreur: expected identifier before ‘’ token
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:179:9: erreur: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘(’ token
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:179:9: erreur: expected ‘;’ at end of member declaration
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:179:9: erreur: ‘__v’ does not name a type
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:179:9: erreur: ‘typeof’ was not declared in this scope
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:179:9: erreur: ‘struct bt_get_le16(const void)::<anonymous>’ has no member named ‘__v’
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h: In function ‘uint16_t bt_get_be16(const void*)’:
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:184:9: erreur: expected identifier before ‘’ token
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:184:9: erreur: expected ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘(’ token
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:184:9: erreur: expected ‘;’ at end of member declaration
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:184:9: erreur: ‘__v’ does not name a type
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:184:9: erreur: ‘typeof’ was not declared in this scope
/usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:184:9: erreur: ‘struct bt_get_be16(const void)::<anonymous>’ has no member named ‘__v’

Seems related to bluetooth, but since I don't know bluez very well, I don't know where to look at.

sierdzio

Have you updated QTDIR and PATH before starting the build? It seems that your search paths are polluted, or bluetooth.h - maybe - bluetooth.h is not ready for C++11, or something entirely different is happening :P.

Sfiet_Konstantin

This issue happened to me quite recently actually. (< 2 weeks) my bluetooth.h did not had any problems before ...

Sfiet_Konstantin

Seems to be ok with latest updates

alpha_one_x86

At the compilation under Windows I have:
Creating qmake...
g++ -c -oproject.o -O -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/qmake -IC:\Users\us
er\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/qmake/generators -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbas
e/qmake/generators/unix -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/qmake/generators/
win32 -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/qmake/generators/mac -IC:\Users\use
r\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/qmake/generators/integrity -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5-
src\qtbase/include -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/include/QtCore -IC:\Us
ers\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/include/QtCore/5.0.0 -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5
-src\qtbase/include/QtCore/5.0.0/QtCore -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/s
rc/corelib/global -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/mkspecs/win32-g++ -IC:
Users\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/tools/shared -DQT_NO_TEXTCODEC -DQT_NO_UNICODE
TABLES -DQT_LITE_COMPONENT -DQT_NO_COMPRESS -DUNICODE -DHAVE_QCONFIG_CPP -DQT_BU
ILD_QMAKE -DQT_NO_THREAD -DQT_NO_QOBJECT -DQT_NO_GEOM_VARIANT -DQT_NO_DATASTREAM
-DQT_BOOTSTRAPPED -DQMAKE_OPENSOURCE_EDITION project.cpp
g++: CreateProcess: No such file or directory
mingw32-make: *** [project.o] Error 1
del /f project.o main.o makefile.o unixmake.o unixmake2.o mingw_make.o option.o
winmakefile.o projectgenerator.o property.o meta.o makefiledeps.o metamakefile.o
xmloutput.o pbuilder_pbx.o borland_bmake.o msvc_nmake.o msvc_vcproj.o msvc_vcxp
roj.o msvc_objectmodel.o msbuild_objectmodel.o registry.o gbuild.o cesdkhandler.
o qbitarray.o qbuffer.o qarraydata.o qbytearray.o qcryptographichash.o qvsnprint
f.o qbytearraymatcher.o qconfig.o qdatetime.o qdir.o qdiriterator.o qfiledevice.
o qfile.o qtemporaryfile.o qfileinfo.o qabstractfileengine.o qfilesystementry.o
qfilesystemengine.o qfilesystemengine_win.o qfilesystemiterator_win.o qfsfileeng
ine.o qfsfileengine_iterator.o qfsfileengine_win.o qglobal.o qhash.o qiodevice.o
qlibraryinfo.o qlist.o qlinkedlist.o qlocale.o qlocale_tools.o qlocale_win.o qm
alloc.o qmap.o qregexp.o qtextcodec.o qutfcodec.o qstring.o qstringlist.o qstrin
gbuilder.o qsystemerror.o qsystemlibrary.o qtextstream.o quuid.o qvector.o qsett
ings.o qsettings_win.o qvariant.o qmetatype.o qxmlstream.o qxmlutils.o qnumeric.
o qlogging.o
Could Not Find C:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase\qmake\project.o
g++ -c -oproject.o -O -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/qmake -IC:\Users\us
er\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/qmake/generators -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbas
e/qmake/generators/unix -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/qmake/generators/
win32 -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/qmake/generators/mac -IC:\Users\use
r\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/qmake/generators/integrity -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5-
src\qtbase/include -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/include/QtCore -IC:\Us
ers\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/include/QtCore/5.0.0 -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5
-src\qtbase/include/QtCore/5.0.0/QtCore -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/s
rc/corelib/global -IC:\Users\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/mkspecs/win32-g++ -IC:
Users\user\Desktop\qt5-src\qtbase/tools/shared -DQT_NO_TEXTCODEC -DQT_NO_UNICODE
TABLES -DQT_LITE_COMPONENT -DQT_NO_COMPRESS -DUNICODE -DHAVE_QCONFIG_CPP -DQT_BU
ILD_QMAKE -DQT_NO_THREAD -DQT_NO_QOBJECT -DQT_NO_GEOM_VARIANT -DQT_NO_DATASTREAM
-DQT_BOOTSTRAPPED -DQMAKE_OPENSOURCE_EDITION project.cpp
g++: CreateProcess: No such file or directory
mingw32-make: *** [project.o] Error 1
Building qmake failed, return code 2

*** qtbase/configure exited with non-zero status.

but if I cd qtbase/qmake/;mingw32-make all it work.

gwfr

On MAC I encountered a problem: Under the last version of XCode you have to download the "command lines tools" seperatly from the xcode settings in the downloads pane.

GeneralPanic

I was getting "The Remote End Hung up Unexpectedly" when running "perl init-repository". I found that if I used the "-http" option at the end of that line, the failures stopped. It seems that the "git" protocol is a bit flaky. Making http the default in the "init-repository" script would make the process a bit more robust.

sierdzio

You can also rerun the script with "-f". Doesn't fix git protocol, but often it works on second try.

GeneralPanic

Yeah, unfortunately for me, re-runnng w/git kept failing at different points.

bibbinator

Hi,
I'm new to command line compiling and Git.

Thanks to the excellent "guide":http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building_Qt_5_from_Git I was able to build Qt from source. Now, with the latest beta 2 release, I'd like to update Qt.

My question is simple:

Do I need to run configure after:

git pull
git submodule update --recursive

Or can I just run make again without doing that?

A suggestion would be to update the "Getting Updates" section to include this answer as maybe others would wonder if they need to do that too.

Thanks,
Brett

sierdzio

Tricky. Depends on what has changed in the source code, really. If you have a solid CPU and a bit of time on your hands, you can definitely try just running make, and then if it fails, you should do a proper clean (git clean -dxf, check the link you provided for a submodule declaration), configure and make.

bibbinator

Thanks for your post. I modified the wiki page updates section with a note that clean and configure may need to be re-run.

invisible

I'm building on windows 7 x64 with msvc2010 sp1 nmake.

For some reason the naming convention is different then the beta release and incompatible with the vs-addin..

All my lib files, dll files etc are named Qt5[lib].dll/lib instead of Qt[lib]5.dll/lib

My config: configure -developer-build -opensource -nomake examples -nomake tests

lgeyer

See http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2012-October/007215.html

cedrix

Hi,

First I have setup qt5 (both with the linux birnary file and by compiling it) on an Ubuntu 12.04 (and 11.10) KVM virtual machine. But I can't launch any graphical qt program. I have issue with QPainter: that kind of mistakes:

@cedric@cedric-virtual-machine:~/Qt5.0.0beta2/5.0.0-beta2/gcc/bin$ ./assistant
QWidget::paintEngine: Should no longer be called
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QWidget::paintEngine: Should no longer be called
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::font: Painter not active
QPainter::pen: Painter not active
...@

So I tried on a windows 32 bits virtual machine. First I installed it with the binary but I couldn't find our the right microsoft compiler so it could work. So I tryed to compile it with mingw32-make. It worked with the following config:
@configure -platform win32-g++ -opengl desktop@
Yeah I couldn't find the right version of direct X sdk so I had some issue and choose to use the opengl option.

This version doesn't work with qt creator. I don't know if it is suppoed to? I have an issue with "ABI detection failed. Make sur to use a matching compiler when building. No qml viewer." But I can launch the program named qmlviewer.exe. Also I can compile the following application with qmake.

pro file:
@######################################################################

Automatically generated by qmake (3.0) sam. 15. déc. 15:49:19 2012

######################################################################

QT += widgets
TEMPLATE = app
TARGET = test03withoutCreator
DEPENDPATH += .
INCLUDEPATH += .

Input

SOURCES += main.cpp
@

main.cpp
@#include <QGuiApplication>
#include <QPushButton>

Q_DECL_EXPORT int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
QGuiApplication app(argc, argv);

QPushButton button("work");
button.show();

return app.exec(&#41;;

}@

but then, I have no idea how to launch it. I did:
@qmake
mingw32-make release@
Then I put the binary file in qtbase/bin, but I when I launch the application, I get the following message:
"This application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusual way."
But the exemples and demos can be launch without any dll in their direcotry. I don't get how that is possible.

Someone know what I should do so I can compile and launch application?

Sincerly,

Cédric

fxtech

I'm having trouble building the final release on Windows 7 x64 with both VS2008 and VS2012. I have ActivePerl and Python 2.7 installed and in the path, and in both cases when I run "configure" I get this error:
@
'T:\home\Qt\5.0.0\qtbase\configure.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
*** qtbase/configure exited with non-zero status.@

Any ideas?

sierdzio

-You should be running configure.exe on windows, not the bash script.-

Add a file named ".gitignore" to the root folder or comment out line 45 in configure.bat.

jamcguire

After several failed attempts at building, here's how I finally managed to get QT5 to build with Nuwen.net's MinGW 9.4, on Windows 7 64 bit SP1 without webkit.

I already had Nuwen's mingw 9.4 installed (9.5 is now available), this can be obtained from http://www.nuwen.net/mingw.html

This needs to be extracted to c:\mingw or similar, and c:\mingw\bin will need to be in the PATH env variable.

Then I copied c:\mingw\bin\make.exe to c:\mingw\bin\mingw32-make.exe

I then downloaded and installed the following:

http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.3.0/python-3.3.0.amd64.msi
http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/rubyinstaller/rubyinstaller-1.9.3-p362.exe
http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/releases/5.16.1.1601/ActivePerl-5.16.1.1601-MSWin32-x64-296175.msi
https://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/Git-1.8.0-preview20121022.exe

I used the installers to set the path for python, ruby and perl.

I downloaded QT5 (27th Dec 2012):

git clone git://gitorious.org/qt/qt5.git qt5
cd qt5
perl init-repository

Configured QT5:

configure -developer-build -opensource -nomake examples -nomake tests -qt-pcre -qt-libjpeg -opengl desktop

Configure informed me that webkit would not be built due to a missing dependency, so no additional parameters were required to disable this.
I have an ATi Radeon graphics driver with builtin OpenGL support
By default configure sets pcre to 'system' at one point I downloaded and built the latest version of pcre, including the pcre16 library, I placed this into my system path, but ld was still unable to locate the library and there was no means of passing the -L parameter to ld from what I can tell, build would fail with 'unable to locate pcre16', once you specify -qt-pcre as per the above, the build will use the embedded pcre library and magically succeed.
Again, for me, build would fail without specifying -qt-libjpeg

I then simply ran 'make'

Good luck!

dpinol

What is the url for the development branch for qt5?
git://gitorious.org/qt/qt5.git does not have modifications since December, and git://gitorious.org/qt/qt.git still contains 4.8

thanks

sierdzio

Every module has a separate git repository, with the exception of QtCore, QtNetwork, QtGui, they are in qtbase.

JKSH

[quote author="sierdzio" date="1357749703"]Every module has a separate git repository, with the exception of QtCore, QtNetwork, QtGui, they are in qtbase.[/quote]Actually,

qtbase.git contains:

Qt Concurrent
Qt Core
Qt D-Bus
Qt GUI
Qt Network
Qt OpenGL
Qt Print Support
Qt SQL
Qt Test
Qt Widgets
Qt XML

qtdeclarative.git contains:

Qt QML
Qt Quick

sierdzio

Ah, I've been punished for my laziness, thank you for that ;)

yeckel

Hi, I've succeed with compiling QT5 for arm (raspberry pi) what is not working for me is localized keyboard input in eglfs. When i use loadkeys de.kmap and than start an application. The keyboard is again Generic (US). But in console localized keyboard works. Did I miss something in compile or programming time?

JKSH

Hi yeckel,

I don't have any experience with the Raspberry Pi, but I recommend posting your question in the "Qt Project Mobile and Embedded subforum":http://qt-project.org/forums/viewforum/11/ or the "Raspberry Pi forum":http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/

maitai

Hello,

I am trying to compile qt5.0.1 in 32bits mode using msvc2012 on a 64bits machine. I have succesfully build the exactly same sources in 64bits mode, many times.

So I opened a "vs2012-x86 native tools command prompt" and just did exactly the same steps as i did to compile the 64bits version.

After a long time, in the nmake phase, I encountered the following error:

    cd windows\ && ( if not exist Makefile C:\qt5\qt5_32\qtbase\bin\qmake C:

\qt5\qt5_32\qtbase\src\plugins\platforms\windows\windows.pro -o Makefile ) && "C
:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\BIN\nmake.exe" -f Makefile

    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\BIN\nmake.exe" -

f Makefile.Debug all

    echo 2 /* CREATEPROCESS_MANIFEST_RESOURCE_ID */ 24 /* RT_MANIFEST */ "..

\..\..\..\plugins\platforms\qwindowsd.dll.embed.manifest">........\plug
ins\platforms\qwindowsd.dll_manifest.rc
if not exist ........\plugins\platforms\qwindowsd.dll del ........
\plugins\platforms\qwindowsd.dll.embed.manifest>NUL 2>&1
if exist ........\plugins\platforms\qwindowsd.dll.embed.manifest copy
/Y ........\plugins\platforms\qwindowsd.dll.embed.manifest ........\plugi
ns\platforms\qwindowsd.dll_manifest.bak
link /NOLOGO /DYNAMICBASE /NXCOMPAT /DEBUG /DLL /MANIFEST /MANIFESTFILE:
........\plugins\platforms\qwindowsd.dll.embed.manifest /OUT:........\plug
ins\platforms\qwindowsd.dll @C:\Users\Philippe\AppData\Local\Temp\nm8E9D.tmp
Creating library ........\plugins\platforms\qwindowsd.lib and object ....
....\plugins\platforms\qwindowsd.exp
dlldata.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _Accessible2_ProxyFileIn
fo
dlldata.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _AccessibleAction_ProxyF
ileInfo
dlldata.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _AccessibleApplication_P
roxyFileInfo
dlldata.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _AccessibleComponent_Pro
xyFileInfo
dlldata.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol AccessibleEditableText
ProxyFileInfo
dlldata.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _AccessibleHyperlink_Pro
xyFileInfo
dlldata.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _AccessibleHypertext_Pro
xyFileInfo
dlldata.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _AccessibleImage_ProxyFi
leInfo
dlldata.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _AccessibleRelation_Prox
yFileInfo
dlldata.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _AccessibleTable_ProxyFi
leInfo
dlldata.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _AccessibleTable2_ProxyF
ileInfo
dlldata.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _AccessibleTableCell_Pro
xyFileInfo
dlldata.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _AccessibleText_ProxyFil
eInfo
dlldata.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _AccessibleValue_ProxyFi
leInfo
........\plugins\platforms\qwindowsd.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 14 unresolved
externals
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0
\VC\BIN\link.EXE"' : return code '0x460'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0
\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
Stop.[/code]

Any idea what is wrong with my setup?

stephench77

I am trying to build qt5 on windows. However, I am not even able retrieve the soure code successfully. The inital command "git clone git://gitorious.org/qt/qt5.git qt5" completed successfully. But the next command "perl init-repository" failed with the following error information:

git submodule init
0 [main] us 0 init_cheap: VirtualAlloc pointer is null, Win32 error 487
AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x68560000, RegionSize 0x170000, State 0x10000
c:\program files (x86)\git\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's h
eap, Win32 error 0
git submodule init exited with status 256 at init-repository line 268.
Qt::InitRepository::exe('Qt::InitRepository=HASH(0x32f290)', 'git', 'sub
module', 'init') called at init-repository line 373
Qt::InitRepository::git_submodule_init('Qt::InitRepository=HASH(0x32f290
)') called at init-repository line 569
Qt::InitRepository::run('Qt::InitRepository=HASH(0x32f290)') called at i
nit-repository line 590

I am using msysgit (Git for Windows) 1.8.1.2, Active Perl 5.16.3 and Python 3.3.0.

sierdzio

Run perl from cmd.exe, not Bash terminal.

stephench77

I did run the command "perl init-repository" from cmd.exe directly.
[quote author="sierdzio" date="1364192137"]Run perl from cmd.exe, not Bash terminal.[/quote]

dasun

I'm trying to build source from the for new bug fix which critical for me.

I'm getting following linking error:

@ link /NOLOGO /DYNAMICBASE /NXCOMPAT /BASE:0x67000000 /DEBUG /DLL /VERSIO
N:5.02 /MANIFEST /MANIFESTFILE:....\lib\Qt5Cored.lib.embed.manifest /OUT:....
lib\Qt5Cored.lib @C:\Users\dasun\AppData\Local\Temp\nm9C85.tmp
Creating library ....\lib\Qt5Cored.lib and object ....\lib\Qt5Cored.exp
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file '....\lib\Qt5Cored.lib'
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0
\VC\BIN\link.EXE"' : return code '0x450'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0
\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
Stop.@

stephench77

I am building from Windows 7. I use the following configuration command:

configure -developer-build -opensource -confirm-license -nomake examples -nomake tests -mp

I see the following errors at the end of configuration output:

Generating Visual Studio project files...
Project WARNING: You should probably load(qt_build_config) first in bootstrap.pr
o for QtBootstrap, as the latter also load()s qt_module.
Project MESSAGE: Not doing so may lead to qt_module.prf overriding compiler/link
er options in your .pro file.
Project MESSAGE: Ignore this warning with CONFIG+=no_qt_module_warning if you kn
ow what you are doing.
Project ERROR: Project has no top-level .qmake.conf file.
Qmake failed, return code 3

Generating Makefiles...
*** qtbase/configure exited with non-zero status.

anshulsolanki

I am getting following error
"STL functionality check failed! Cannot build Qt with this STL library."

when i run configure command i.e.
./configure -developer-build -xplatform android-g++ -android-ndk YOUR_NDK_DIR -android-sdk YOUR_SDK_DIR -nomake tests -nomake examples

Exact dump

/home/ubuntu/qt5/qtbase/configure -developer-build -xplatform android-g++ -android-ndk /home/ubuntu/anshul/android-ndk-r8e -android-sdk /home/ubuntu/anshul/replicant-sdk_linux-x86 -nomake tests -nomake examples -confirm-license
Which edition of Qt do you want to use ?

Type 'c' if you want to use the Commercial Edition.
Type 'o' if you want to use the Open Source Edition.

o

This is the Qt Open Source Edition.

You are licensed to use this software under the terms of
the Lesser GNU General Public License (LGPL) versions 2.1.

You have already accepted the terms of the license.

<srcbase> = /home/ubuntu/qt5/qtbase
<outbase> = /home/ubuntu/qt5/qtbase
Creating qmake...
make: Nothing to be done for `first'.
Running configuration tests...
Warning: Disabling pkg-config since PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR is not set.
Warning: Disabling pkg-config since PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR is not set.

Could not determine the target architecture!
Turn on verbose messaging (-v) to see the final report.
STL functionality check failed! Cannot build Qt with this STL library.
Turn on verbose messaging (-v) to /home/ubuntu/qt5/qtbase/configure to see the final report.
*** qtbase/configure exited with non-zero status.

and i am referring this link for building
http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt5ForAndroidBuilding

Please help

-Anshul

PauloPina

Hello,

I am having some problems compiling Qt 5.1 in MAC OSX. I've followed all the steps from here: http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building_Qt_5_from_Git ...

But... when I called "make -j 4", after about one hour of compilling work, I've got this error:

@make[3]: *** No rule to make target /Users/paulopina/PlexusDynamics/qt5/qtbase/lib/libQt5QmlDevTools.a', needed by/Users/paulopina/PlexusDynamics/qt5/qtbase/bin/qmlmin'. Stop.
make[2]: *** [sub-qmlmin-make_first] Error 2
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[3]: Nothing to be done for first'. make[3]: Nothing to be done forfirst'.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `first'.
make[1]: *** [sub-tools-make_first] Error 2
make: *** [module-qtdeclarative-make_first] Error 2@

This it the return i've got at "./configure -developer-build -opensource -nomake examples -nomake tests":

@Creating qmake...
make: Nothing to be done for `first'.
Running configuration tests...
WARNING: Unable to find file .device.vars

Build type: macx-clang
Architecture: x86_64, features: mmx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3
Host architecture: x86_64, features: mmx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3

Build .................. libs tools
Configuration .......... qpa largefile precompile_header sse2 sse3 ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 avx avx2 absolute_library_soname pcre warnings_are_errors minimal-config small-config medium-config large-config full-config build_all debug_and_release no-pkg-config coreservices accessibility opengl shared qpa reduce_exports getaddrinfo ipv6ifname getifaddrs png freetype system-zlib nis cups iconv openssl rpath corewlan concurrent audio-backend v8 v8snapshot release debug qt_framework private_tests
Debug .................. yes (combined)
Default Link ........... debug
Force debug info ....... no
C++11 support .......... no
pkg-config ............. no
Qt D-Bus module ........ no
Qt Concurrent code ..... yes
Qt GUI module .......... yes
Qt Widgets module ...... yes
JavaScriptCore JIT ..... To be decided by JavaScriptCore
QML debugging .......... yes
PCH support ............ yes
SSE2/SSE3/SSSE3......... yes/yes/yes
SSE4.1/SSE4.2........... yes/yes/yes
AVX/AVX2................ yes/yes
IPv6 ifname support .... yes
getaddrinfo support .... yes
getifaddrs support ..... yes
Accessibility .......... yes
NIS support ............ yes
CUPS support ........... yes
Iconv support .......... yes
Glib support ........... no
GStreamer support ...... no
PulseAudio support ..... no
Large File support ..... yes
GIF support ............ plugin
JPEG support ........... plugin (qt)
PNG support ............ yes (qt)
zlib support ........... system
Session management ..... auto
libudev support ........ no
Use system proxies ..... no
OpenGL support ......... yes (Desktop OpenGL)
OpenVG support ......... no
XShape support ......... auto
XVideo support ......... auto
XSync support .......... auto
Xinerama support ....... runtime
Xcursor support ........ runtime
Xfixes support ......... runtime
Xrandr support ......... runtime
Xi support ............. runtime
Xi2 support ............ auto
MIT-SHM support ........ auto
FontConfig support ..... no
XKB support ............ auto
GTK theme support ...... no
PostgreSQL support ..... plugin
ODBC support ........... plugin
SQLite support ......... plugin (qt)
OpenSSL support ........ yes (run-time)
Alsa support ........... no
CoreWlan support ....... yes
libICU support ......... no
PCRE support ........... qt
Xcb support ............ no
Xrender support ........ no
EGLFS support .......... no
DirectFB support ....... no
LinuxFB support ........ no
KMS support ............ no@

Any one has an idea of how can I solve this?

Thank you!

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