Qwt designer plugin for the new 2.0.0 Qt Creator (4.6.3 SDK version)

[Uwe]

You can check the thousands of similar threads, but in the end it is always an individual compilation/installation problem on the user side.

A short checklist:

1) Edit qwtconfig.pri
2) Build in release mode
3) Use make install ( no manual copying )
4) The designer plugin needs to be in a directory, that is read by the creator
5) The path to the Qwt dll needs be in the PATH variable

On Windows you have more traps ( debug/relase, dllimport/dllexport ) and no concept of a distribution at all. I will never understand, why it is common use ( don't know about you) to ignore the installation offered by the package and to prefer to copy files around manually.

Uwe

[er453r]

Thank you for this checklist.

So I've done the following:

1. Edited qwtconfig.pri (changed INSTALLBASE to the current Qt dir, set CONFIG to += debug_and_release += build_all)

2. Build with qmake (qmake qwt.pro ; make)

3. Installed with make (make install). That helped a lot, copied almost all the files where they should be (except libqwt_designer_plugin5.a which I copied manually just to be sure, maybe it's not required?)

4. Added qwt.dll to the path.

And again big nothing... Back in the times when designer was a standalone application I've never had a problem with this.... The most frustrating thing is that nothing even shows up in the plugin info view (the old designer listed errors if something was wrong, now - nothing)

Any other ideas?

Edit:
This seems to be a compiling problem! I've managed to get the plugins into the QtCreator but there is a Qt library error: expecting "windows msvc release full-config" recieved "windows mingwrelease full-config". So why the Qt site says:

*Based on MinGW (download sources) tool set. Does not support VS compiler.

Strange.

[er453r]

That is how it works:

1. QtCreator is not build with mingw, it's build with msvc. Someone even reported the stupidity to Nokia : http://labs.trolltech.com/forums/topic/1068
2. Download QtCreator sources and build them in release mode
3. Overwrite SDK QtCreator files with build files
4. Overwrite dlls in bin folder with dlls from qt/bin folder - so they're compatible with the newly build QtCreator version
5. Now your Qwt plugins work without a problem!

Yeah, I've wasted only this whole day for this :/