Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution make: *** [mainwindow.o] Error 2

Hisham

I'm trying to compile a Qt project downloaded from Git hub. I got the following error,
/bin/sh: 1: Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution

make: *** [mainwindow.o] Error 2
10:24:29: The process "/usr/bin/make" exited with code 2.
Error while building/deploying project FiniteElements (kit: Desktop)
When executing step 'Make'

My .pro file is as below,

QT      += core gui opengl widgets
DEFINES += QT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE=0x000000`
TARGET   = FiniteElements
TEMPLATE = app

LIBS    += -lqwt

INCLUDEPATH += "/usr/include/qwt/"



SOURCES += main.cpp \
           mainwindow.cpp \
           FiniteElements.cpp\
           graph_plot.cpp

HEADERS  += mainwindow.h\
            FiniteElements.h\
            graph_plot.h

Can anyone help me to solve the issue?

mjsurette

My first reaction was that this would be a case of not enough information.

Then I spotted the character at the end of your DEFINES statement which clearly does not belong there.

That would be my best guess as to the cause of this problem.

Mike

jsulm

@Hisham said in Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution make: *** [mainwindow.o] Error 2:

DEFINES += QT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE=0x000000`

Could be that ` at the end of this line:

DEFINES += QT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE=0x000000`

Remove it, run qmake again and then make.