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[Hockey]

Thanks for the speedy reply.

I've read those articles and tried to build a simple, single file application but I am getting the following error:

mingw32-make: *** No rule to make target `test.pro', needed by `Makefile'.  Stop.

mingw32-make: *** No rule to make target `test.pro', needed by `Makefile'.  Stop.

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What am I doing wrong? I've Googled but nothing really helpful.

Cheers

[jacek]

How does your .pro file look like and what how did you invoke qmake?

[Hockey]

Edit It just occured to me to look inside my makefile and see if the path were inside the makefile. It seems as though the makefile is just referencing the test.pro and NOT including the path. Ise the environment variables for the MinGW and Qt binaries, do I just add my project path to environment variables as well? I would need to keep the path in the qmake command thought, correct?

This is the contents of my project file:

CONFIG += qt
SOURCES += main.cpp

CONFIG += qt
SOURCES += main.cpp

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I copied it verbatim essentially from the tutorials...

I invoked qmake with this command:

qmake.exe -o c:\test\Makefile c:\test\test.pro

qmake.exe -o c:\test\Makefile c:\test\test.pro

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[jacek]

Everything OK so far. How did you invoke make?

[Hockey]

make --makefile=c:\test\Makefile

make --makefile=c:\test\Makefile

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I've tried several switches but no luck...

[jacek]

Does it work if you invoke:

cd c:\test\
make

cd c:\test\
make

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?

[Hockey]

Zing!!!

That did the trick. Although it compiled as release not debug. Does this mean I have too add my project path to environment variables?

[jacek]

That did the trick. Although it compiled as release not debug.

Most likely it's because you don't have the debug version of Qt libraries. Look for "Build Qt libraries in debug mode" or something similar in the Start menu.

Does this mean I have too add my project path to environment variables?

No, I've just reproduced your problem on my system. It seems that qmake generates Makefiles which expect that the .pro file is in the current directory. So you just have to make sure that your project's directory is the current one.