error linking using static qt and msvc

mastupristi

Hallo,
I have a problem when linking an executable. It seems that the list of file .lib to be linkend is treated as unknown parameters:

link /NOLOGO /DYNAMICBASE /NXCOMPAT /INCREMENTAL:NO /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS "/MANIFESTDEPENDENCY:type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*' processorArchitecture='*'" /MANIFEST:embed /OUT:release\prova.exe @C:\Users\max\AppData\Local\Temp\prova.exe.1508.344.jom
LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/Qt/Qt5-static/lib\Qt5PlatformSupport.lib'; ignored
LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/Qt/Qt5-static/lib\qtfreetype.lib'; ignored
LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/Qt/Qt5-static/lib\Qt5Gui.lib'; ignored
[...]
Qt5Gui.lib(qtextengine.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _hb_buffer_create referenced in function "private: int __thiscall QTextEngine::shapeTextWithHarfbuzzNG(struct QScriptItem const &,unsigned short const *,int,class QFontEngine *,class QVector<unsigned int> const &,bool)const " (?shapeTextWithHarfbuzzNG@QTextEngine@@ABEHABUQScriptItem@@PBGHPAVQFontEngine@@ABV?$QVector@I@@_N@Z)
Qt5Gui.lib(qtextengine.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _hb_buffer_destroy referenced in function "private: int __thiscall QTextEngine::shapeTextWithHarfbuzzNG(struct QScriptItem const &,unsigned short const *,int,class QFontEngine *,class QVector<unsigned int> const &,bool)const " (?shapeTextWithHarfbuzzNG@QTextEngine@@ABEHABUQScriptItem@@PBGHPAVQFontEngine@@ABV?$QVector@I@@_N@Z)
[...]

I have surely misunderstood some step.
In a newly installed Windows 7 machen I have install Visual Studio 15 Community edition, perl, python and msysgit.
Then I have cloned qt5, and checkout v5.5.1 (also for submodules).
I opened a cmd windows and setup the environment with:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"

and then I have configured using:

configure  -developer-build -opensource -nomake examples -nomake tests -mp -static -prefix "c:\Qt\Qt5-static"

finally nmake and nmake install, so in c:\Qt\Qt5-static I can find a tree with the static qt library.

but when I try to build a simple project it fails the linker step.

I cannot figure out why

best regards
Max

jsulm

@mastupristi "/Qt/Qt5-static/lib\Qt5PlatformSupport.lib" and the others are for sure invalid paths. Can you show your pro file?

mastupristi

QT       += core gui

greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets
CONFIG+= static

TARGET = prova
TEMPLATE = app

SOURCES += main.cpp\
        dialog.cpp

HEADERS  += dialog.h

FORMS    += dialog.ui

I tried with and without CONFIG+= static, but nothing changes.

I call qmake with this command line:

c:\Qt\Qt5-static\bin\qmake.exe prova.pro -r -spec win32-msvc2015

best regard
Max