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.