Qt 4.4.1 deployement with Visual Studio Express 2008

[abrou]

I created a project with Qt 4.3 Open Source and Visual Studio Express 2005 and had great sucess with it. I had to get a new computer, so I installed Qt 4.4.1 and Visual Studio Express 2008, and it seemed to be successful. The examples seem to work, but I tried to build my project that I had created on my old system and I get this (the rule is make debug):


'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

If I try to rebuild (rule:
qmake –project
qmake
make clean
make debug)
:

1>Performing Makefile project actions
1>Failure to open file: C:/Documents and Settings/abrounstein/My Documents/Visual Studio 2008/Projects/RoboSearch/RoboSearch//RoboSearch.pro
1>Unable to generate project file.
1>Failure to read QMAKESPEC conf file c:\Qt4.4\mkspec\win32-msvc2008\qmake.conf.
1>Error processing project file: C:/Documents and Settings/abrounstein/My Documents/Visual Studio 2008/Projects/RoboSearch/RoboSearch/RoboSearch.pro
1>'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
1>operable program or batch file.
1>'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
1>operable program or batch file.
1>Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from "Performing Makefile project actions"

I've tried to fix the path, but I am still new to this, and so I haven't been able to figure it out myself. The only posts I can find that are similar seem to be related to mingW, which is not what I used.

Does anybody have any suggestions? I'm running out of ideas..... Thanks!

Let me know if any more info would be helpful.

edit: And the line ending "RoboSearch//RoboSearch.pro" is not a typo, that's what it says. The double \\ would maybe be why it isn't finding it, but I have no idea how to fix it.

[The Storm]

I think that the visual studio command must be "nmake" not "make". Maybe you have messed up instalation of MinGW ?

[jacek]

Does the .pro file exist at that location (there's RoboSearch twice in the path)?

[abrou]

The Storm: I didn't install using mingW (although it does happen to be on this computer already)

Jacek: Yes, If you take away the extra '\' then it is in the path specified (Both RoboSearch's are there because Visual Studio set up the project that way)

[The Storm]

Then try to use "nmake" instead of "make", perhaps it will fix your problem. :)

[abrou]

Yes, I had tried that, and I got the following error:


1>------ Build started: Project: RoboSearch, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>Performing Makefile project actions
1>Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 9.00.21022.08
1>Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
1> c:\Qt4.4\bin\qmake.exe -win32 -o Makefile RoboSearch.pro
1>Failure to read QMAKESPEC conf file c:\Qt4.4\mkspec\win32-msvc2008\qmake.conf.
1>Error processing project file: RoboSearch.pro
1>NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'c:\Qt4.4\bin\qmake.exe' : return code '0x3'
1>Stop.
1>Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from "Performing Makefile project actions"
1>Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\abrounstein\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\RoboSearch\RoboSearch\Debug\BuildLog .htm"
1>RoboSearch - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

I am now investigating this. Any suggestions would be appreciated! So much for me to learn!

edit: And I should add that I have made an environment variable QMAKESPEC=C:\Qt4.4\mkspecs\win32-msvc2008 and this directory does have qmake.conf in it

[jacek]

I should add that I have made an environment variable QMAKESPEC=C:\Qt4.4\mkspecs\win32-msvc2008 and this directory does have qmake.conf in it
Set QMAKESPEC to win32-msvc2008.

[abrou]

Thank you very much! It seems to be compiling now!

It's always a simple, yet stupid mistake, isn't it?

[damienww]

Hey, I have the same problem. I tried adding that QMAKESPEC to win32-msvc2008. But still doesn't work.

I'm running on visual studio 2008 professional. I don't think I have mingw installed. Could this be the problem?
If yes, will the Qt exe for windows with mingw be enough?

Here's the error:


Performing Makefile project actions
Usage: qmake [mode] [options] [files]
QMake has two modes, one mode for generating project files based on
some heuristics, and the other for generating makefiles. Normally you
shouldn't need to specify a mode, as makefile generation is the default
mode for qmake, but you may use this to test qmake on an existing project
Mode:
-project Put qmake into project file generation mode
In this mode qmake interprets files as files to
be built,
defaults to *.c; *.ui; *.y; *.l; *.ts; *.xlf; *.qrc; *.h; *.hpp; *.hh; *.hxx; *.cpp; *.cc; *.cxx
-makefile Put qmake into makefile generation mode (default)
In this mode qmake interprets files as project files to
be processed, if skipped qmake will try to find a project
file in your current working directory
Warnings Options:
-Wnone Turn off all warnings
-Wall Turn on all warnings
-Wparser Turn on parser warnings
-Wlogic Turn on logic warnings
Options:
* You can place any variable assignment in options and it will be *
* processed as if it was in [files]. These assignments will be parsed *
* before [files]. *
-o file Write output to file
-unix Run in unix mode
-win32 Run in win32 mode
-macx Run in Mac OS X mode
-d Increase debug level
-t templ Overrides TEMPLATE as templ
-tp prefix Overrides TEMPLATE so that prefix is prefixed into the value
-help This help
-v Version information
-after All variable assignments after this will be
parsed after [files]
-norecursive Don't do a recursive search
-recursive Do a recursive search
-cache file Use file as cache [makefile mode only]
-spec spec Use spec as QMAKESPEC [makefile mode only]
-nocache Don't use a cache file [makefile mode only]
-nodepend Don't generate dependencies [makefile mode only]
-nomoc Don't generate moc targets [makefile mode only]
-nopwd Don't look for files in pwd [project mode only]
Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from "Performing Makefile project actions"


Thanks!