building and running qt project in cli with VS 2015

ravi2k18

Hi,

I have written a sample helloworld project for qt with visual studio 2015. The project has only one file main.cpp and
for that I have written *.pro file

 helloworld
                ---- helloworld.pro
                ---- main.cpp

To build and run above project with qmake and VS, I have set below config in command prompt.

         set QTDIR="C:\Qt\Qt5.12.0\"
         set PATH=%PATH%;%QTDIR%\5.12.0\msvc2017_64\bin;"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2015\VC\bin"
         set QMAKESPEC=win32-msvc

Now when I run "qmake", it generates Makefiles. However running make file says no such command as below

        C:\Qt-Workspace\helloworld>make
        'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
         operable program or batch file.

Can any one tell me what is the problem here? Is it the right way to build and run projects with Visual Studio using command line?

 Directory of C:\Qt-Workspace\helloworld

01/10/2019  07:43 PM    <DIR>          .
01/10/2019  07:43 PM    <DIR>          ..
01/10/2019  07:43 PM               216 .qmake.stash
01/10/2019  07:43 PM    <DIR>          debug
01/03/2019  06:27 PM                63 helloworld.pro
01/03/2019  07:00 PM               296 main.cpp
01/10/2019  07:43 PM            30,569 Makefile
01/10/2019  07:43 PM            26,512 Makefile.Debug
01/10/2019  07:43 PM            26,447 Makefile.Release
01/10/2019  07:43 PM    <DIR>          release
               6 File(s)         84,103 bytes
               4 Dir(s)   8,740,945,920 bytes free

C:\Qt-Workspace\helloworld>

Thanks

mrjj

Hi
Do you open the Visual studio command prompt for this ?
else you need to run
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\x86_amd64\vcvarsx86_amd64.bat"
or similar to setup paths.

Christian Ehrlicher

@ravi2k18 said in builing and running qt project in cli with VS 2015:

C:\Qt-Workspace\helloworld>make

there is no 'make' on windows at all. It's nmake for MSVC and mingw32-make for MinGW.

ravi2k18

@mrjj

I am running my test program in Visual studio's Developer command prompt. Even though it says

        'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

If Visual studio does not have make command support, how can we build project with Makefile generated by qmake?

thanks....

mrjj

@ravi2k18
hi
as @Christian-Ehrlicher says its called nmake :)

ravi2k18

I opened the VS command prompt and set the Qt variables as below

set QTDIR="C:\Qt\Qt5.12.0\"
set PATH=%PATH%;%QTDIR%\5.12.0\msvc2017_64\bin;
set QMAKESPEC=win32-msvc

and while running nmake command I get below error.

C:\Qt-Workspace\helloworld>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 14.00.24210.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2015\VC\BIN\nmake.exe" -f Makefile.Release

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 14.00.24210.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        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\helloworld.exe @C:\Users\RAV~1\AppData\Local\Temp\nm3197.tmp
Qt5Widgets.lib(Qt5Widgets.dll) : fatal error LNK1112: module machine type 'x64' conflicts with target machine type 'X86'
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2015\VC\BIN\link.EXE"' : return code '0x458'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2015\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.

C:\Qt-Workspace\helloworld>

It looks like some 32 and 64 bit mismatch but how to fix? It would be great if you can help me in fixing this.

thanks.......................

SGaist

Hi,

You haven opened a console configured for 32bit builds. Open one for 64bit and you should be good to go.

ravi2k18

@SGaist

after using x64 bit native VS command prompt, I get below error.

C:\Qt-Workspace\helloworld>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 14.00.24210.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2015\VC\BIN\amd64\nmake.exe" -f Makefile.Release

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 14.00.24210.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        cl -c -nologo -Zc:wchar_t -FS -Zc:rvalueCast -Zc:inline -Zc:strictStrings -Zc:throwingNew -O2 -MD -W3 -w34100 -w34189 -w44996 -w44456 -w44457 -w44458 -wd4577 -wd4467 -EHsc -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE -DWIN32 -D_ENABLE_EXTENDED_ALIGNED_STORAGE -DWIN64 -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_WIDGETS_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DNDEBUG -I. -I..\..\Qt\Qt5.12.0\5.12.0\msvc2017_64\include -I..\..\Qt\Qt5.12.0\5.12.0\msvc2017_64\include\QtWidgets -I..\..\Qt\Qt5.12.0\5.12.0\msvc2017_64\include\QtGui -I..\..\Qt\Qt5.12.0\5.12.0\msvc2017_64\include\QtANGLE -I..\..\Qt\Qt5.12.0\5.12.0\msvc2017_64\include\QtCore -Irelease -I\include -I..\..\Qt\Qt5.12.0\5.12.0\msvc2017_64\mkspecs\win32-msvc -Forelease\ @C:\Users\SHARDU~1\AppData\Local\Temp\nmF305.tmp
main.cpp
        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\helloworld.exe @C:\Users\RAV~1\AppData\Local\Temp\nmF817.tmp
LINK : fatal error LNK1158: cannot run 'rc.exe'
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2015\VC\BIN\amd64\link.EXE"' : return code '0x486'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2015\VC\BIN\amd64\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.

C:\Qt-Workspace\helloworld>

is set QMAKESPEC=win32-msvc correct for x64 ? or what could be the issue here?

thanks.......

SGaist

What happens if you call rc.exe directly in your command prompt ?

If not found, then search your hard drive for it.

ravi2k18

hi @SGaist

As I did not have rc.exe in my system

I had to reinstall(Modify) VS 2015 using offline installer by selecting

            Windows and Web Development -> Universal Windows App Development Tools -> Tools (1.4.1) and Windows 10 SDK (10.0.14393)

Once done I do not see above error on nmake and my compilation went successful.
However running the generated executable helloworld.exe I get below run-time error

   The Application was Unable to Start Correctly (0xc000007b)

What could be the cause and fix for this issue?

thanks...

SGaist

You have to modify your prompt PATH environment variable to also point to where your Qt dll's can be found.

aha_1980

@ravi2k18 said in builing and running qt project in cli with VS 2015:

0xc000007b

Looks like the program has a 32bit/64bit DLL mismatch. Find more here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28299246/0xc000007b-error

The accepted answer there uses Process Monitor to watch the loaded DLLs