Virtual keyboard ignoring configured languages

Asperamanca

Hi,

I am building virtual keyboard 2.0.0 for Qt 5.6 with Visual Studio 2015. I can compile it on the command line, and the run the 'basic' example. But no matter what I try, I only have an english keyboard layout.

Here are my commands, which I execute in the src folder of the virtual keyboard:

nmake clean
qmake CONFIG+=lang-de virtualkeyboard.pro
nnake
nmake install

After that sequence, I build the examples in the examples/virtualkeyboard subfolder with

nmake clean
qmake CONFIG+=debug virtualkeyboard.pro
nmake

...and directly execute basic.exe within the debug folder.

The example works, the keyboard is displayed, but the german keyboard layout is not available.

Any ideas?

SGaist

Hi,

What if you use lang-all ?

Asperamanca

@SGaist said in Virtual keyboard ignoring configured languages:

Hi,

What if you use lang-all ?

I tried around a little more. One issue seems to be that qmake does not overwrite existing makefiles. No matter how often I run qmake with different config options, the makefiles remain old (and through increased debug level, I saw that the CONFIG variable had changed for qmake, so it should have re-written those makefiles).

After fixing that by deleting the makefiles manually, I got a change in behavior: The keyboard no longer showed anything. I didn't worry (yet), because lang-all isn't what I need anyway. So I retried the qmake with lang-de.

Then something strange happened. After building and installing, I was able to start the keyboard - and instead of english and german, I have all languages! It almost looks that I got the keyboard from my previous build - but how can that be?

SGaist

Are you building out of source ?

How did you nuke the content of the build directory ?

Asperamanca

Yes, I am building from source.
EDIT: Just to be clear: My Qt is an installed package (5.6.2), I am only building virtual keyboard from source.

The nuking works by first calling nmake clean, and then a batch file which does the following:

del /F /S /Q *.mak
del /F /S /Q *.mak.*
del /F /S /Q Makefile
del /F /S /Q Makefile.*

After that, I restart with qmake, nmake and nmake install

SGaist

That I was expecting ;) I meant "out of the source tree"

What I usually do is remove the folder used to build to ensure that no invisible files (the ones starting with a dot) comes influence things.

the_

@Asperamanca

why not use

nmake clean
nmake distclean

?

Asperamanca

@the_ said in Virtual keyboard ignoring configured languages:

@Asperamanca

why not use
nmake clean
nmake distclean
?

Because you learn something new every day :)

the_

@Asperamanca

to add:

nmake uninstall

should be run before clean and distclean to remove the installed files if you want to reinstall it. could cause some troubles to run nmake install if file exists already (especially on windows where a file can not be overwritten while it is in use by another process)

--edit
can also be combined in one line

nmake uninstall clean distclean