Problem building application with custom widget

[Uthar]

Hey all, I have a problem building my application when using a custom widget.
I'm using the custom widget "tictactoe" that came with the examples.

For creating the project files I used the following steps:

• cd C:\Qt\4.4.2\projects\Test\Test
• qmake -project
• qmake -tp vc test.pro
• Added "C:\Qt\4.4.2\examples\designer\taskmenuextensi on" to the project include list in visual studio.

I'm getting the following link error when building my project:

Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: __thiscall TicTacToe::TicTacToe(class QWidget *)" (??0TicTacToe@@QAE@PAVQWidget@@@Z) referenced in function "public: void __thiscall Ui_MyTest::setupUi(class QMainWindow *)" (?setupUi@Ui_MyTest@@QAEXPAVQMainWindow@@@Z) mytest.obj

Error 2 fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals debug\test.exe

//main.cpp
#include <QApplication>
#include "mytest.h"
 
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	QApplication app(argc, argv);
	MyTest mytest;
	mytest.show();
	return app.exec();
}

//main.cpp
#include <QApplication>
#include "mytest.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	QApplication app(argc, argv);
	MyTest mytest;
	mytest.show();
	return app.exec();
}

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//mytest.cpp
#include <QtGui>
#include "mytest.h"
 
MyTest::MyTest(QMainWindow *p_Parent) : QMainWindow(p_Parent)
{
	setupUi(this);
}

//mytest.cpp
#include <QtGui>
#include "mytest.h"

MyTest::MyTest(QMainWindow *p_Parent) : QMainWindow(p_Parent)
{
	setupUi(this);
}

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//mytest.h
#ifndef MYTEST_H
#define MYTEST_H
 
#include "ui_mytest.h"
 
class MyTest : public QMainWindow, private Ui::MyTest
{
	Q_OBJECT
 
public:
	MyTest(QMainWindow *p_parent = 0);
 
};
 
#endif

//mytest.h
#ifndef MYTEST_H
#define MYTEST_H

#include "ui_mytest.h"

class MyTest : public QMainWindow, private Ui::MyTest
{
	Q_OBJECT
	
public:
	MyTest(QMainWindow *p_parent = 0);

};

#endif

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I only get this error when I use a custom widget. Because when I remove the custom widget from my ui file I can successfully build and run the application.

[wysota]

You have to link with the library providing the custom widget which is either the plugin itself (as is probably the case of the mentioned Qt example) or some other library the plugin links against. A third option is to copy the sources of the needed class to your project.

[Uthar]

Thanks for the fast response wysota.
But could you give me a bit more detailed information?

I have tried to link it with the library by adding taskmenuextension.lib and taskmenuextensiond.lib to my visual studio project file. I was not sure which lib was for tictactoe so I included them both to be sure.

It could be I added the lib file not correct to my project but I'm still getting the same error.
I'm using visual studio 2005 and added the lib files like this:
Properties > Configuration properties > Linker > Input > Additional Dependencies

About the third option. The source was already available for my project because I added C:\Qt\4.4.2\examples\designer\taskmenuextension to the include list.
In this location are the source files for tictactoe. To be sure I removed this from the include list and copied the source to my project directory. After this I'm still getting the error

Have you more ideas or didn't I add the library correct in visual studio?
Or is it possible to add the lib file directly to my *.pro file


--edit--
I have added the library now in my pro file by using, LIBS += -l and LIBS += -L.
After this I runned qmake -tp vc test.pro again.
When I look now in my project settings in visual studio I see the library is added but when I build my project I still get the same error. Any idea's?

[wysota]

Maybe the plugin doesn't export the class? Try copying the source files into your project directly.

[Uthar]

About the third option. The source was already available for my project because I added C:\Qt\4.4.2\examples\designer\taskmenuextension to the include list.
In this location are the source files for tictactoe. To be sure I removed this from the include list and copied the source to my project directory. After this I'm still getting the error.

Tried it already to copy the source to my project directory, unfortunately this didn't solve my problem

[wysota]

Did you add them to the project?

[Uthar]

Thanks wysota!
That was the part I was missing. It's working now

Greetings Uthar