Want a stable install

[pshah.mumbai]

Hello,

I have bought this book called C++ GUI Programming with QT 4. I tried installing QT on Windows XP but it just keeps throwing errors while doing "Build debug libraries"

I tried QT 4.3.1 and the one provided in the book - but it just throws out weird errors. I have spent 3 days on this and did a lot of google.

I am totally new to this and I just want a version on QT which I can install without any hassles and try out the examples in the book.

Can anyone let me know which version of QT 4 will work out of the box or which I can get working without much tinkering.

Thanks.

Regards.

[jacek]

Could you post the first error you get?

[pshah.mumbai]

Qt is now configured for building. Just run mingw32-make.
To reconfigure, run mingw32-make confclean and configure.

(cd C:\Qt\4.3.1\src\winmain && mingw32-make -f Makefile debug)
mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory `C:/Qt/4.3.1/src/winmain'
mingw32-make -f Makefile.Debug
mingw32-make[2]: Entering directory `C:/Qt/4.3.1/src/winmain'
g++ -c -g -Wall -frtti -fexceptions -mthreads -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -DUNICODE -DQT
_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT -DQT_NEEDS_QMAIN -DQT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII -DQT_ASCII_CAST_WARNIN
GS -DQT3_SUPPORT -DQT_MOC_COMPAT -D_USE_MATH_DEFINES -I"..\..\include" -I"tmp" -
I"..\..\include\QtCore" -I"c:\Qt\4.3.1\include\qtmain" -I"tmp" -I"..\..\include\
ActiveQt" -I"tmp\moc\debug_shared" -I"." -I"c:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.
0\INCLUDE" -I"c:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\INCLUDE\GTK-2.0" -I"c:\Progr
am Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\INCLUDE\GLIB-2.0" -I"c:\Program Files\Common Files
\GTK\2.0\INCLUDE\PANGO-1.0" -I"c:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\INCLUDE\CAI
RO" -I"c:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\INCLUDE\ATK-1.0" -I"c:\Program File
s\Common Files\GTK\2.0\INCLUDE\GTKGLEXT-1.0" -I"c:\Program Files\Common Files\GT
K\2.0\LIB\GTK-2.0\INCLUDE" -I"c:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\LIB\GLIB-2.0
\INCLUDE" -I"c:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\LIB\GTKGLEXT-1.0\INCLUDE" -I"
c:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\INCLUDE\LIBGLADE-2.0" -I"c:\Program Files\
Common Files\GTK\2.0\INCLUDE\LIBXML2" -I"..\..\mkspecs\win32-g++" -o tmp\obj\deb
ug_shared\qtmain_win.o qtmain_win.cpp
ar -ru "..\..\lib\libqtmaind.a" tmp\obj\debug_shared\qtmain_win.o
ar: creating ..\..\lib\libqtmaind.a
mingw32-make[2]: Leaving directory `C:/Qt/4.3.1/src/winmain'
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/Qt/4.3.1/src/winmain'
(cd C:\Qt\4.3.1\src\tools\moc && mingw32-make -f Makefile first)
mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory `C:/Qt/4.3.1/src/tools/moc'
mingw32-make -f Makefile.Release
Makefile.Release:2919: *** multiple target patterns. Stop.
mingw32-make[2]: Entering directory `C:/Qt/4.3.1/src/tools/moc'
mingw32-make[2]: Leaving directory `C:/Qt/4.3.1/src/tools/moc'
mingw32-make[1]: *** [release] Error 2
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/Qt/4.3.1/src/tools/moc'
mingw32-make: *** [debug-C__Qt_4_3_1_src_tools_moc] Error 2
C:\Qt\4.3.1\src>

[jacek]

Try compiling the debug libraries the standard way. Start the "Qt Command Prompt", run configure and then make.

[ChristianEhrlicher]

It's the 'nomal' error when you installed msvc6.
The both environment variables 'LIB' and 'INCLUDE' point to msvc headers/libraries (mostly with spaces).
Remove 'LIB' and 'INCLUIDE' env var and rerun qmake.

[pshah.mumbai]

from where to remove that ?

sorry i am new programmer so i dont know much of this !

thanks for the help.

i have not installed any of Visual Studio products or anything of that sort.

[ChristianEhrlicher]

From your Environment - see also google on how to permanently set global/user env variables.

For now you can do 'set LIB=' and 'set INCLUDE=' in you qt command prompt and rerun qmake and mingw32-make

[pshah.mumbai]

still the same error.

I am running it on Athlon XP

I downloaded 4.3.2 and it is giving the same error

[wysota]

Could you try running make distclean and configure -debug ... and then make?
If that doesn't work run "qmake -r -config debug" after configure (but try without it first).

[pshah.mumbai]

Ok I got it working on another machine.

Strange that it was not working on this machine. I had install GTK also - maybe because of that. Dont know why it was giving problem. Will check it out and post it here if I get to the problem.

Thanks a lot to everyone who replied.