makefile missing separator problem

[terrywb]

I'm installing QT on Fedora 9 system and on a Windows Vista system for some cross-platform development, using Qdevelop on both. Fedora 9 part is up and running well. However, when I try to run the first example on the Win system I get:

Build (make)...
Makefile.Debug:61: *** missing separator. Stop.
mingw32-make: *** [debug] Error 2
C:/MinGW/bin/mingw32-make -f Makefile.Debug
mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory `C:/Users/terry/my1'
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/Users/terry/my1'

Looking at Makefile.Debug (or for that matter Makefile.Release) does not show to my novice eyes any missing separator, and in fact the line in questions look like the one on the working Fedora installation.

I'd appreciate any input including a forum more appropriate for asking if that is the case as well as any other pointers. I've gone through QTassistant w/o finding anything, also rebuilt the package as well, also Googled a lot, but I haven't yet been able to find a solution.

[ChristianEhrlicher]

Plz search the Forum. Do you have msvc installed? Make sure INCLUDE and LIB environment vars do not contain paths to msvc when compiling with mingw (which, I guess you do)

[terrywb]

Plz search the Forum. Do you have msvc installed? Make sure INCLUDE and LIB environment vars do not contain paths to msvc when compiling with mingw (which, I guess you do)

Thanks for the reply. It was one of the things that finally allowed me to figure out what was happening. I was using mingw32-make when I should have been using nmake. and I also had neglected to use the configure -platform option.

Finally, though, since I wasn't using MSVC, I simply removed it, then did a clean ordinary configure again, and everything worked.

Thanks again,

Terry

[tezzzer]

Hi All

I also came across this 'missing separator' make problem after installing Eclipse/Mingw when I had previously been using MSVC++.

In my case I found that the QMAKESPEC environment variable was still set to expect MSVC++, i.e. probably still set for nmake. Setting QMAKESPEC to "win32-g++" solved the problem.

T.

[syrianzoro]

I have the same problem(the error message below) I use windows xp ,I have set all the environement paths correctly :
C:\MinGW\bin
QSPECMAKE =win32-g++

path=%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoo t%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\AGL;C:\Qt\4.4.3\bin;C:\mingw\bin;C:\mi ngw\libexec\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5
__________________________________________________ ___
Build (make)...
C:/MinGW/bin/mingw32-make -f Makefile.Release
mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory `E:/QDtest/qdtest'
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `E:/QDtest/qdtest'
Makefile.Release:61: *** missing separator. Stop.
mingw32-make: *** [release] Error 2
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