Project compiling properly without qrc file

[wysota]

Where did you place project.qrc?

[goodz]

It's all in the same project folder. No subdirectories are used to store the project's files.

[toutarrive]

Have youd had your resource file to the *.pro file of your project?

RESOURCES = myresource.qrc

RESOURCES = myresource.qrc

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[goodz]

If I don't add the *.qrc file to the *.pro it will compile properly. If I add the resource it will throw an error saying this file does not exist.

On a side note, I'm using QT SDK and if I build for debugging it will compile properly and run the program with the resource included in the project file.

Thanks again.

[wysota]

Please show us the code where you use data from the resource file and paste the contents of your qmake project file.

[goodz]

Sure. I'm currently just trying to compile an example from the book C++ GUI Programming with Qt4, 2nd Edition.

iconeditor.qrc

<RCC>
<qresource>
    <file>images/mouse.png</file>
</qresource>
</RCC>

<RCC>
<qresource>
    <file>images/mouse.png</file>
</qresource>
</RCC>

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iconeditor.pro

TEMPLATE      = app
HEADERS       = iconeditor.h
SOURCES       = iconeditor.cpp \
                main.cpp
RESOURCES     = iconeditor.qrc

TEMPLATE      = app
HEADERS       = iconeditor.h
SOURCES       = iconeditor.cpp \
                main.cpp
RESOURCES     = iconeditor.qrc

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[wysota]

I meant the code where you are using the data from the resource file.

[goodz]

Doh! I meant to post that.. Sorry.


It's in the main.cpp.

iconEditor.setIconImage(QImage(":/images/mouse.png"));

iconEditor.setIconImage(QImage(":/images/mouse.png"));

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[wysota]

Looks fine. What happens if you manually run rcc.exe on the qrc file?

[goodz]

I'm not certain how to do that? Currently I am at work so I can't do it till later this afternoon.

[wysota]

Open the Qt command prompt, cd to the directory where the qrc file is and run rcc.exe iconeditor.qrc

[goodz]

Alright I got it to compile using the qmake; I didn't realize I was doing it wrong. Apologies.

However, it doesn't build an executable. Am I still doing something wrong?