Install a package from qt-solutions

SGaist · wrote on 12 May 2017, 15:54

Hi,

The path is where the concerned .pri file is located.

The QtSolutions module isn't handled the same way as the other more recent modules.

Sikarjan · 5 Dec 2017, 16:32

At the moment this would be my Downloads folder, which is probably not the best location, is it? Can I move the folder or do I have to rebuild the module when I relocate it? If I can just move it where should the folder go?

SGaist · wrote on 12 May 2017, 16:46

The idea behind using the .pri file is to build the solution within your project rather than have it as external dependency.

What I saw people usually do is to copy the content of the solution they are interested in in their own code base and include the .pri file.

Sikarjan · wrote on 12 May 2017, 19:10

Okay. And this also works if I use the code cross platform? So I can take the files I created on Windows to my Mac and it will also work? If that is so, why do I need to configure and make the files then?

Just tried it on Windows but did not work. I created a folder plugins in my main folder and copied the qtsingleapplicaiton folder there. When I add the path in my pro file I receive an error:

/plugins/qtsingleapplication/config.pri: No such file or directory

This file does not exist. When I try to build my app anyway it fails too:

C:\...\phpPad\plugins\qtsingleapplication\src\qtlocalpeer.cpp:180: Warnung: comparison between 'enum QLocalSocket::LocalSocketState' and 'enum QAbstractSocket::SocketState' [-Wenum-compare]
         if (socket->state() == QAbstractSocket::UnconnectedState) {
                                                 ^

I tried to remove the server/peer functionality since I do not need that but that caused other errors.

Am I facing theses errors because I copied the folder or is this an issue with the code itself and not my fault?

SGaist · wrote on 12 May 2017, 21:19

/plugins/qtsingleapplication/config.pri ?

Where exactly did you put that into your project ?

Sikarjan · wrote on 13 May 2017, 05:32

I do not have it in my project. It is also not provided but required by common.pri:

exists(config.pri):infile(config.pri, SOLUTIONS_LIBRARY, yes): CONFIG += qtsingleapplication-uselib

The common.pri file is required by qtsingleapplication.pri:

include(../common.pri)

SGaist · wrote on 13 May 2017, 22:11

Can you share your .pro file ?

Sikarjan · wrote on 14 May 2017, 10:59

Sure I can:

#-------------------------------------------------
#
# Project created by QtCreator 2017-01-05T07:43:22
#
#-------------------------------------------------

QT       += core gui xml

greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets

TARGET = phpPad
TEMPLATE = app

include(plugins/qtsingleapplication/src/qtsingleapplication.pri)

# The following define makes your compiler emit warnings if you use
# any feature of Qt which as been marked as deprecated (the exact warnings
# depend on your compiler). Please consult the documentation of the
# deprecated API in order to know how to port your code away from it.
DEFINES += QT_DEPRECATED_WARNINGS

# You can also make your code fail to compile if you use deprecated APIs.
# In order to do so, uncomment the following line.
# You can also select to disable deprecated APIs only up to a certain version of Qt.
#DEFINES += QT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE=0x060000    # disables all the APIs deprecated before Qt 6.0.0

SOURCES += main.cpp\
        mainwindow.cpp \
    components/codeeditor.cpp \
    components/highlighter.cpp \
    components/projectmodel.cpp \
    dialogs/newproject.cpp \
    dialogs/newtabledialog.cpp \
    dialogs/preferencedialog.cpp

HEADERS  += mainwindow.h \
    components/codeeditor.h \
    components/highlighter.h \
    components/projectmodel.h \
    dialogs/newproject.h \
    dialogs/newtabledialog.h \
    dialogs/preferencedialog.h

FORMS    += mainwindow.ui \
    dialogs/newproject.ui \
    dialogs/newtabledialog.ui \
    dialogs/preferencedialog.ui

DISTFILES += \
    appIcon/phpPad.rc \
    Erungenschaften.txt \
    xml/html.xml

RESOURCES += \
    qrc.qrc

ICON = appIcon/phpPad.icns

RC_FILE = appIcon/phpPad.rc

I believe the issue is with the client/peer feature. This feature is not relevant for me. Somewhere in the documentation I read the the minimal example is not making use of this feature but it uses the same files. So I don't get how they did it.

SGaist · wrote on 14 May 2017, 22:04

What did you copy exactly from the QtSolutions module ?

Sikarjan · wrote on 15 May 2017, 09:16

Currently I am trying all of this only on Windows.

I downloaded the entire solutions package from github as zip. Extracted it in my Downloads folder and followed the install instruction within the qtsingleapplicaition folder. Then I copied the entire qtsingeapplication folder and pasted it in the plugin folder which is in my root folder. From the qtsingleapplication folder I removed the configure, make, docs and examples. The src and buildlib folder is untouched.

This is the content of my qtsingeapplication folder

buildlib
src
common.pri
qtsingleapplication.pro

SGaist · wrote on 18 May 2017, 22:19

Where is your project source located on your machine ?
Same question for QtSolution sources.

Sikarjan · wrote on 20 May 2017, 18:22

On Windows my files are in my standard Windows documents folder. On OS X under User/Programming. The qtsingleapplication folder is in the project folder under plugins. The rest of the QtSolution files is still in my Download folder.

SGaist · 22 May 2017, 04:36

AFAIR you should essentially need:

INCLUDEPATH += $$PWD
DEPENDPATH += $$PWD
QT *= network
greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT *= widgets

SOURCES += $$PWD/qtsingleapplication.cpp $$PWD/qtlocalpeer.cpp
HEADERS += $$PWD/qtsingleapplication.h $$PWD/qtlocalpeer.h

jsulm · 22 May 2017, 06:19

@SGaist += not *=
:-)

sierdzio · 22 May 2017, 06:20

@jsulm said in Install a package from qt-solutions:

@SGaist += not *=
:-)

*= is perfectly fine. See the docs

jsulm · wrote on 22 May 2017, 06:20

@sierdzio Oh, good to know :-)
Thanks!

Sikarjan · wrote on 22 May 2017, 08:05

Thanks for all you help and time. I got it working finally. Probably not the most elegant way but it works for me =)

@SGaist your suggestion worked (after I figured out to remove the include statement) but it included the files directly into my project messing up my structure in Creator. Also it gave me an error in my main.cpp on #include <qtsingleapplication.h> no such file

Essentially only the network module was missing.

QT       += core gui xml network

greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets

TARGET = phpPad
TEMPLATE = app

include(plugins/qtsingleapplication/src/qtsingleapplication.pri)

I am very sure that I tried to include that before with a clean and rebuild. No idea why it is working now.