'test' is not recognized as an internal or external command

[dvmorris]

ok, i tried again and i still get the error about 'test' not being recognized as a command. i can't find anything in the qmake documentation about this. any ideas.?

[marcel]

For windows it should be:

CHK_DIR_EXISTS= if not exist

Are you sure you used the right QMAKESPEC?
Anyway, it was weird from the beginning because there is no test command(by default). Maybe there is one that comes bundled with mingw, in which case you must have the path to the mingw binaries in PATH.

Regards

[dvmorris]

it's using win32-g++

is that correct?

[marcel]

it's using win32-g++

is that correct?

That is correct.

Then do a search in the mingw install dir for "test"...
See if anything comes up.

EDIT: make that "test.exe"

Regards

[dvmorris]

there is a sample app called test, but i placed it in the bin directory and when it runs vista gets an error that says test.exe crashes every time i run make.

on windows xp my makefiles are correct, that's strange. that is the only test.exe on my entire hard drive so i don't know where it is getting that from. it says

CHK_DIR_EXISTS = test -d

[marcel]

Well, it's Vista...
Try running test.exe as Adminstrator.
Or, better yet, just disable UAC for 10 minutes and see if it works ( but remember to run it manually - something like test c:\windows ).

Regards

[dvmorris]

it just keeps crashing. but even still. test.exe is in the sample programs directory for mingw, so it wouldn't make sense that it would do anything important. i disabled UAC and tried it again as well.

i don't understand how no one else has had this problem yet. i just installed qt 4.3.0 from the trolltech website with mingw. maybe i should just delete everything and try again.

[marcel]

I am now 100% sure that test.exe comes with mingw. And it is normal, because test can be found only on Linux( and other Unix flavors ). It is used mainly for shell scripting.

Regards

[dvmorris]

ok, thanks for your help, i will try some other things.

[marcel]

Well, I am almost sure this is a compatibility issue( permissions, etc ).

When you run make, it will look at the exit code of test.exe. This is how it knows a dir exists or not.

Maybe you can find something relevant on other sites.

Regards

[dvmorris]

i deleted absolutely everything related to qt and mingw, and redownloaded it from trolltech, and it seems to be working now. for some reason i have a knack for finding ways to make qt break on all my os's. i always have weird problems on os x as well.

anyways, thank you so much for your help.
dave

[marcel]

Anyway, this is pretty much how it should look like:

first: release
install: release-install
uninstall: release-uninstall
MAKEFILE      = Makefile
QMAKE         = qmake
DEL_FILE      = del
CHK_DIR_EXISTS= if not exist
MKDIR         = mkdir
COPY          = copy /y
COPY_FILE     = $(COPY)
COPY_DIR      = xcopy /s /q /y /i
INSTALL_FILE  = $(COPY_FILE)
INSTALL_PROGRAM = 
INSTALL_DIR   = $(COPY_DIR)
DEL_FILE      = del
SYMLINK       = 
DEL_DIR       = rmdir
MOVE          = move
CHK_DIR_EXISTS= if not exist
MKDIR         = mkdir
SUBTARGETS    =  \
        release \
        debug

first: release
install: release-install
uninstall: release-uninstall
MAKEFILE      = Makefile
QMAKE         = qmake
DEL_FILE      = del
CHK_DIR_EXISTS= if not exist
MKDIR         = mkdir
COPY          = copy /y
COPY_FILE     = $(COPY)
COPY_DIR      = xcopy /s /q /y /i
INSTALL_FILE  = $(COPY_FILE)
INSTALL_PROGRAM = 
INSTALL_DIR   = $(COPY_DIR)
DEL_FILE      = del
SYMLINK       = 
DEL_DIR       = rmdir
MOVE          = move
CHK_DIR_EXISTS= if not exist
MKDIR         = mkdir
SUBTARGETS    =  \
        release \
        debug

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