2 Questions regarding linking problem (dealing with porting qt3 custom widgets

[degs2k4]

Hello,

I am porting a custom Qt3 widget (named MyCanvasView)to Qt4 using QDevelop under windows. I will explain carefully the problem:

Both the widget and the plugin compiled fine, and are in the same project directory (C:\QDevelop\mycanvasviewplugin). Next, I just put the generated .a and .dll files inside the C:\Qt\4.3.2\plugins\designer folder.

Then I just created a new project with QDevelop for using the ported widget. Next I just edit the ui file of the project in QTDesigner, adding the custom widgets. Both signals and slot of the custom widget are recognized in the signals/slots editor. Everything seems OK up to now.

Then I save the file and go back to QDevelop. I just try to compile the project and gives me the folowing error:

build/ui_mainwindow.h: In member function `void Ui_MainWindow::setupUi(QMainWindow*)':
build/ui_mainwindow.h:74: error: `canvasview' was not declared in this scope
build/ui_mainwindow.h:74: error: `MyCanvasView' has not been declared

Which means that it can't find the MyCanvasView. I just opened the file ui_mainwindow.h file and replaced this:

#include "mycanvasview.h"

#include "mycanvasview.h"

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for this:

#include "C:\QDevelop\mycanvasviewplugin\mycanvasview.h"

#include "C:\QDevelop\mycanvasviewplugin\mycanvasview.h"

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so that it can find the .h of the custom widget. But editing this file is very bad since any changes will be lost when recompiling the faile.

Question 1: Why it can't find the .h of the custom widget? Is there any other way of solving this? Maybe on linking options?


Now the previous error is gone, but instead I get now this error:

build\mainwindowimpl.o:mainwindowimpl.cpp.text$_ZN13Ui_MainWindow7setupUiEP11QMainWindow[Ui_MainWindow::setupUi(QMainWindow*)]+0xa68): undefined reference to `MyCanvasView::MyCanvasView(QWidget*, char const*)'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

which means that it can't find the constructor. No idea on how to solve this one.

Question 2: How to solve this? Again, I think it is a problem of linking...Even if I add explicitely all the files of the c. widget, it gives hundreds of undefined reference errors...


Thanks to everyone again.

[ChristianEhrlicher]

Your first issue hasn't to do something with linking (and also isn't a qt issue). If you don't tell the compiler where to search for header files, it won't find them. Search for 'INCLUDEPATH' or 'HEADERS' in qmake documentation.
For your second problem - it looks like you did not implement 'MyCanvasView::MyCanvasView(QWidget*, char const*)'

[degs2k4]

I added in the .pro file (file used for make) the variables DEPENDPATH and INCLUDEPATH with the directories needed and it worked.

Thanks!