Want a stable install

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.:D

Thanks.

Regards.

Could you post the first error you get?

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>

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

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.

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.

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

still the same error. :(

I am running it on Athlon XP

I downloaded 4.3.2 and it is giving the same error :(

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).

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. :confused:

Thanks a lot to everyone who replied.