Installing Qt 4.4 for Morons?

[chris062689]

I sware I've tried every guide I can find on how to install Qt 4.4 OpenSource.
I just simply can't figure out how to properly install it!

Does anyone have a "tried and true" method for installing Qt 4.4 (+ Eclipse / Visual Studio 2003, whichever's fine.) on Windows XP SP3? Could you walk me through it please?

I've been looking at Qt, and it seems like a really powerful framework, I just can't get it to install...

I'm going to try this guide...
http://wiki.qtcentre.org/index.php?t...Simple_Project

[wysota]

The easiest thing to do is to download the version for MinGW that has an installer and run it. Afterwards you are immediately ready to go. If you want to integrate your installation with some IDE, install the Eclipse integration. Note that this is optional, the framework will work without Eclipse - you can even use notepad to develop your applications.

[chris062689]

Well, following that guide I'm stuck at the configure part.

Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 x86 tools.
 
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC>cd C:\qt
 
C:\qt>configure
 
This is the Qt for Windows Open Source Edition.
 
You are licensed to use this software under the terms of
the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or 3.
 
Type '2' to view the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2).
Type '3' to view the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).
Type 'y' to accept this license offer.
Type 'n' to decline this license offer.
 
Do you accept the terms of the license?
y
Setting Direct3D to NO, since the proper Direct3D SDK was not detected.
Make sure you have the Direct3D SDK installed, and that you have run
the <path to SDK>\Utilities\Bin\dx_setenv.cmd script.
The D3D SDK library path *needs* to appear before the Platform SDK library
path in your LIB environment variable.
Environment:
    INCLUDE=
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\INCLUDE
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\include
 
    LIB=
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\LIB
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\lib
 
    PATH=
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools
      C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5
      C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\VCPackages
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin
      C:\WINDOWS\system32
      C:\WINDOWS
      C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
You are licensed to use this software under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2 o
r 3.
See C:/qt/LICENSE.GPL2
 or C:/qt/LICENSE.GPL3
 
Configuration:
    dist-config
    large-config
    medium-config
    minimal-config
    small-config
    full-config
    build_all
    debug
Qt Configuration:
    release
    debug
    zlib
    png
    accessibility
    qt3support
    opengl
    ipv6
    xmlpatterns
    phonon
    phonon-backend
    webkit
    svg
    minimal-config
    small-config
    medium-config
    large-config
    full-config
 
QMAKESPEC...................win32-msvc2008 (detected)
Architecture................windows
Maketool....................nmake
Debug symbols...............yes
Accessibility support.......yes
STL support.................yes
Exception support...........yes
RTTI support................yes
MMX support.................yes
3DNOW support...............yes
SSE support.................yes
SSE2 support................yes
IWMMXT support..............no
OpenGL support..............yes
Direct3D support............no
OpenSSL support.............no
QtDBus support..............no
QtXmlPatterns support.......yes
Phonon support..............yes
WebKit support..............yes
Qt3 compatibility...........yes
 
Third Party Libraries:
    ZLIB support............qt
    GIF support.............plugin
    TIFF support............plugin
    JPEG support............plugin
    PNG support.............qt
    MNG support.............plugin
 
Styles:
    Windows.................yes
    Windows XP..............yes
    Windows Vista...........yes
    Plastique...............yes
    Cleanlooks..............yes
    Motif...................yes
    CDE.....................yes
    Windows CE..............no
    Windows Mobile..........no
 
Sql Drivers:
    ODBC....................no
    MySQL...................no
    OCI.....................no
    PostgreSQL..............no
    TDS.....................no
    DB2.....................no
    SQLite..................plugin (qt)
    SQLite2.................no
    InterBase...............no
 
Sources are in..............C:\qt
Build is done in............C:\qt
Install prefix..............C:\qt
Headers installed to........C:\qt\include
Libraries installed to......C:\qt\lib
Plugins installed to........C:\qt\plugins
Binaries installed to.......C:\qt\bin
Docs installed to...........C:\qt\doc
Data installed to...........C:\qt
Translations installed to...C:\qt\translations
Examples installed to.......C:\qt\examples
Demos installed to..........C:\qt\demos
 
Creating qmake...
 
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 9.00.30729.01
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
 
Creating makefiles in src...
Generating Visual Studio project files...
Could not find mkspecs for your QMAKESPEC(win32-msvc2008) after trying:
        C:\Qt4-shared\mkspecs
Error processing project file: C:/qt/projects.pro
Qmake failed, return code 3
 
Generating Makefiles...
Could not find mkspecs for your QMAKESPEC(win32-msvc2008) after trying:
        C:\Qt4-shared\mkspecs
Error processing project file: C:/qt/projects.pro
Qmake failed, return code 3
 
 
C:\qt>

Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 x86 tools.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC>cd C:\qt

C:\qt>configure

This is the Qt for Windows Open Source Edition.

You are licensed to use this software under the terms of
the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or 3.

Type '2' to view the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2).
Type '3' to view the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).
Type 'y' to accept this license offer.
Type 'n' to decline this license offer.

Do you accept the terms of the license?
y
Setting Direct3D to NO, since the proper Direct3D SDK was not detected.
Make sure you have the Direct3D SDK installed, and that you have run
the <path to SDK>\Utilities\Bin\dx_setenv.cmd script.
The D3D SDK library path *needs* to appear before the Platform SDK library
path in your LIB environment variable.
Environment:
    INCLUDE=
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\INCLUDE
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\include

    LIB=
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\LIB
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\lib

    PATH=
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools
      C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5
      C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\VCPackages
      C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin
      C:\WINDOWS\system32
      C:\WINDOWS
      C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
You are licensed to use this software under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2 o
r 3.
See C:/qt/LICENSE.GPL2
 or C:/qt/LICENSE.GPL3

Configuration:
    dist-config
    large-config
    medium-config
    minimal-config
    small-config
    full-config
    build_all
    debug
Qt Configuration:
    release
    debug
    zlib
    png
    accessibility
    qt3support
    opengl
    ipv6
    xmlpatterns
    phonon
    phonon-backend
    webkit
    svg
    minimal-config
    small-config
    medium-config
    large-config
    full-config

QMAKESPEC...................win32-msvc2008 (detected)
Architecture................windows
Maketool....................nmake
Debug symbols...............yes
Accessibility support.......yes
STL support.................yes
Exception support...........yes
RTTI support................yes
MMX support.................yes
3DNOW support...............yes
SSE support.................yes
SSE2 support................yes
IWMMXT support..............no
OpenGL support..............yes
Direct3D support............no
OpenSSL support.............no
QtDBus support..............no
QtXmlPatterns support.......yes
Phonon support..............yes
WebKit support..............yes
Qt3 compatibility...........yes

Third Party Libraries:
    ZLIB support............qt
    GIF support.............plugin
    TIFF support............plugin
    JPEG support............plugin
    PNG support.............qt
    MNG support.............plugin

Styles:
    Windows.................yes
    Windows XP..............yes
    Windows Vista...........yes
    Plastique...............yes
    Cleanlooks..............yes
    Motif...................yes
    CDE.....................yes
    Windows CE..............no
    Windows Mobile..........no

Sql Drivers:
    ODBC....................no
    MySQL...................no
    OCI.....................no
    PostgreSQL..............no
    TDS.....................no
    DB2.....................no
    SQLite..................plugin (qt)
    SQLite2.................no
    InterBase...............no

Sources are in..............C:\qt
Build is done in............C:\qt
Install prefix..............C:\qt
Headers installed to........C:\qt\include
Libraries installed to......C:\qt\lib
Plugins installed to........C:\qt\plugins
Binaries installed to.......C:\qt\bin
Docs installed to...........C:\qt\doc
Data installed to...........C:\qt
Translations installed to...C:\qt\translations
Examples installed to.......C:\qt\examples
Demos installed to..........C:\qt\demos

Creating qmake...

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 9.00.30729.01
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Creating makefiles in src...
Generating Visual Studio project files...
Could not find mkspecs for your QMAKESPEC(win32-msvc2008) after trying:
        C:\Qt4-shared\mkspecs
Error processing project file: C:/qt/projects.pro
Qmake failed, return code 3

Generating Makefiles...
Could not find mkspecs for your QMAKESPEC(win32-msvc2008) after trying:
        C:\Qt4-shared\mkspecs
Error processing project file: C:/qt/projects.pro
Qmake failed, return code 3


C:\qt>

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[chris062689]

After looking around, it appears that Microsoft Visual Studio C++ Express isn't supported?

Is MSVS 2005 Express supported?
Is there a way I can use MSVS 2008 Express with Qt?

I'll just do it with MSVS 2005 Express...
I followed this guide: http://53prime.com/?p=87
I'll report back if it works!
[EDIT: Nope, msvs 2005 express isn't supported either?!]

[chris062689]

Does anyone have a good tutorial on how to install Eclipse, Qt, Mingw?
I guess I'll just use Eclipse. I really don't care as long as I can use Qt!

[wysota]

As far as I know msvc-2008 is supported... I can see support for it in both the commercial and open source editions. If you use prefix in Windows, you have to manually copy the mkspecs directory or issue make install_mkspecs before building Qt. There is something wrong with the compilation process and qmake looks for the specs in a wrong directory.

[chris062689]

Trying Eclipse... this is giving me a migraine.

(After I ran configure, I ran mingw32make, this is what happened)

[tons of code here]
Could Not Find C:\Qt\4.4.3\qmake\project.o
del qmake
Could Not Find C:\Qt\4.4.3\qmake\qmake
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/Qt/4.4.3/qmake'
mingw32-make: *** No rule to make target `configure'.  Stop.
 
C:\Qt\4.4.3>make
cd \src\winmain\ && c:\Qt\4.4.3\bin\qmake.exe winmain.pro -win32 -o Makefile
Cannot find file: winmain.pro.
mingw32-make: *** [\src\winmain\Makefile] Error 2
 
C:\Qt\4.4.3>

[tons of code here]
Could Not Find C:\Qt\4.4.3\qmake\project.o
del qmake
Could Not Find C:\Qt\4.4.3\qmake\qmake
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/Qt/4.4.3/qmake'
mingw32-make: *** No rule to make target `configure'.  Stop.

C:\Qt\4.4.3>make
cd \src\winmain\ && c:\Qt\4.4.3\bin\qmake.exe winmain.pro -win32 -o Makefile
Cannot find file: winmain.pro.
mingw32-make: *** [\src\winmain\Makefile] Error 2

C:\Qt\4.4.3>

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I think I'm getting closer, but what's wrong?

[wysota]

Ok, but why are you trying to build Qt if you already have it built for MinGW? Don't try to make things harder than they are.

[chris062689]

When I try to compile a program using g++, it comes back with errors...
So I assumed I needed to compile it..

OK, what steps do you suggest doing to install Qt / Eclipse?

[wysota]

I already wrote that few posts earlier. Install the binary package and you're ready to go. If you want eclipse integration, install the integration package and again you should be ready to go. Just make sure proper environment variables are defined. You can do that by using the "Qt command prompt" entry from the start menu.

[chris062689]

What?
I tried installing that binary package, and then tried compiling my Hello World program with "g++", it came back with errors

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\QtExamples\helloworld>g++ h
elloworld.cpp
helloworld.cpp:1:25: QApplication: No such file or directory
helloworld.cpp:2:24: QPushButton: No such file or directory
helloworld.cpp: In function `int main(int, char**)':
helloworld.cpp:6: error: `QApplication' was not declared in this scope
helloworld.cpp:6: error: expected `;' before "app"
helloworld.cpp:8: error: `QPushButton' was not declared in this scope
helloworld.cpp:8: error: expected `;' before "hello"
helloworld.cpp:9: error: `hello' was not declared in this scope
helloworld.cpp:12: error: `app' was not declared in this scope
helloworld.cpp:13:3: warning: no newline at end of file

#include <QApplication>
 #include <QPushButton>
 
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     QApplication app(argc, argv);
 
     QPushButton hello("Hello world!");
     hello.resize(100, 30);
 
     hello.show();
     return app.exec();
 }

#include <QApplication>
 #include <QPushButton>

 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     QApplication app(argc, argv);

     QPushButton hello("Hello world!");
     hello.resize(100, 30);

     hello.show();
     return app.exec();
 }

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I'm so confused what I'm SUPPOSED to do and what I'm NOT SUPPOSED to do..

[chris062689]

/sheds a tear.
I *finally* compiled my own program!

But.. it took so many steps...

C:\MyQT\helloworld>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 
 Directory of C:\MyQT\helloworld
 
10/10/2008  05:12 AM    <DIR>          .
10/10/2008  05:12 AM    <DIR>          ..
10/10/2008  04:38 AM               249 helloworld.cpp
               1 File(s)            249 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  217,473,863,680 bytes free
 
C:\MyQT\helloworld>qmake -project
 
C:\MyQT\helloworld>qmake
 
C:\MyQT\helloworld>make
mingw32-make -f Makefile.Debug
mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory `C:/MyQT/helloworld'
g++ -c -g -frtti -fexceptions -mthreads -Wall -DUNICODE -DQT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT -
DQT_DLL -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -DQT_NEEDS_QMAIN -I"..\..
\Qt\4.4.3\include\QtCore" -I"..\..\Qt\4.4.3\include\QtCore" -I"..\..\Qt\4.4.3\in
clude\QtGui" -I"..\..\Qt\4.4.3\include\QtGui" -I"..\..\Qt\4.4.3\include" -I"." -
I"c:\Qt\4.4.3\include\ActiveQt" -I"debug" -I"." -I"..\..\Qt\4.4.3\mkspecs\win32-
g++" -o debug\helloworld.o helloworld.cpp
helloworld.cpp:13:3: warning: no newline at end of file
g++ -enable-stdcall-fixup -Wl,-enable-auto-import -Wl,-enable-runtime-pseudo-rel
oc -mthreads -Wl -Wl,-subsystem,windows -o debug\helloworld.exe debug/helloworld
.o  -L"c:\Qt\4.4.3\lib" -lmingw32 -lqtmaind -lQtGuid4 -lQtCored4
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/MyQT/helloworld'
 
C:\MyQT\helloworld>

C:\MyQT\helloworld>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.

 Directory of C:\MyQT\helloworld

10/10/2008  05:12 AM    <DIR>          .
10/10/2008  05:12 AM    <DIR>          ..
10/10/2008  04:38 AM               249 helloworld.cpp
               1 File(s)            249 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  217,473,863,680 bytes free

C:\MyQT\helloworld>qmake -project

C:\MyQT\helloworld>qmake

C:\MyQT\helloworld>make
mingw32-make -f Makefile.Debug
mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory `C:/MyQT/helloworld'
g++ -c -g -frtti -fexceptions -mthreads -Wall -DUNICODE -DQT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT -
DQT_DLL -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -DQT_NEEDS_QMAIN -I"..\..
\Qt\4.4.3\include\QtCore" -I"..\..\Qt\4.4.3\include\QtCore" -I"..\..\Qt\4.4.3\in
clude\QtGui" -I"..\..\Qt\4.4.3\include\QtGui" -I"..\..\Qt\4.4.3\include" -I"." -
I"c:\Qt\4.4.3\include\ActiveQt" -I"debug" -I"." -I"..\..\Qt\4.4.3\mkspecs\win32-
g++" -o debug\helloworld.o helloworld.cpp
helloworld.cpp:13:3: warning: no newline at end of file
g++ -enable-stdcall-fixup -Wl,-enable-auto-import -Wl,-enable-runtime-pseudo-rel
oc -mthreads -Wl -Wl,-subsystem,windows -o debug\helloworld.exe debug/helloworld
.o  -L"c:\Qt\4.4.3\lib" -lmingw32 -lqtmaind -lQtGuid4 -lQtCored4
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/MyQT/helloworld'

C:\MyQT\helloworld>

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Is there anyway I can.. condense that?
How exactly do I integrate it with Eclipse now?

Wait.. why does it only work when I execute it from the QT command line?
Why can't I run it in Windows Explorer?

This application has failed to start because mingw10.dll was not found.

[wysota]

I *finally* compiled my own program!

Congatulations. Reading the docs often pays back

Is there anyway I can.. condense that?

You rarely need to call qmake again, so when you change something and want to recompile, you only call make.

How exactly do I integrate it with Eclipse now?

You might start with downloading the Qt Eclipse integration available from Trolltech site.

Wait.. why does it only work when I execute it from the QT command line?
Why can't I run it in Windows Explorer?

This application has failed to start because mingw10.dll was not found.

I think you already know the answer

[chris062689]

I think you already know the answer

You sir, do not know how to read the Topic Title.
Re: Installing Qt 4.4 for Morons?

Why can't I run them without the Qt Command Prompt?

[wysota]

It would help if you actually started reading some docs instead of trying things blind...

The command prompt sets paths and environment variables to both Qt and MinGW. Without it you need to make sure your system can find all the libraries when running an application. In that case the runtime of MinGW that is probably not sitting where it should (in a global system library path like C:\Windows\System or a local library path like the directory containing the binary you are trying to execute). This is all basic stuff concerning programming. You should really try to learn your deployment environment (Windows operating system in your case) before doing any software development on your own.