Craig Sanders wrote:
Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>
Craig Sanders wrote:
Greetings Lorenzo.
I have used the GNU Autotools in the past to build some simple
projects which made use of the Qt Library. I prefer to use the GNU
Autotools as I find them much more flexible and much more powerful than
qmake.
As I recall, there are 2 key steps that need to be performed when
using the GNU Autotools with Qt.
Step 1, You will need to get hold of an Autoconf macro which will
detect if and if so, where you have a Qt Library installed on your
system. If this macro detects that you have a Qt Library installed on
your system, then it will generate some appropriate settings for you.
Step 2, You will also need to instruct the Autotools how to invoke
the Qt moc (Meta Object Compiler) on your relevant source code files.
To accomplish the first step, you should be able to find an
appropriate Autoconf macro here ;
http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/macros-by-category.html
Personally, I use the macro bnv_have_qt - information about which can
be found here ;
http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/bnv_have_qt.html
I then call this macro from my configure.ac file as is illustrated
below.
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Hi Craig
thanks a lot for your answer!
I've just tried this macro on a brand new empty project... I'm testing
it under windows with cygwin, and it seems to fail: I run configure like
this
./configure --with-Qt-lib-dir=/usr/lib/qt3/lib/
--with-Qt-include-dir=/usr/include/qt3/
--with-Qt-bin-dir=/usr/lib/qt3/bin/ --with-Qt-lib=qt
and I get
checking for Qt... yes:
QT_CXXFLAGS=-I/usr/include/qt3/
QT_DIR=
QT_LIBS=-L/usr/lib/qt3/lib/ -lqt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lXext -lXmu
-lXt -lXi
QT_UIC=/usr/lib/qt3/bin//uic
QT_MOC=/usr/lib/qt3/bin//moc
QT_LRELEASE=/usr/lib/qt3/bin//lrelease
QT_LUPDATE=/usr/lib/qt3/bin//lupdate
checking correct functioning of Qt installation... failure
configure: error: Failed to find matching components of a complete
Qt installation. Try using more options,
see ./configure --help.
Actually, the link phase of the test example fails... have you even
tried your project under cygwin?
cheers
Lorenzo
Hello again Lorenzo.
Hi Craig
I haven't tried configuring and building my Qt project using Cygwin under
Windows. Rather, I have only configured and built it under Linux Fedora Core 2
and using the default Qt installation (version 3.3) that is distributed with it.
If I invoke the following switch ;
--with-Qt-dir
I used this switch too, actually I used the more complete form
(otherwise headers and libraries would not be found at all)
when I run the configure script, then my project successfully configures and
compiles. This has always worked for me, so I haven't bothered to try using any
of the other Qt related configure script switches, i.e. --with-Qt-lib-dir, etc.
You could maybe try using this approach, and if you find that it doesn't work
for you then you could perhaps send an e-mail to the author of the bnv_have_qt
macro. I don't use Windows for software development, so I'm not sure what you
would need to do in order to get the bnv_have_qt macro to find your Qt
installation using just this one configure script switch. Sorry I can't be of
more any more help.
as I said, libraries and headers (and also tools) are correctly found,
but it does not seem to succeed in the linking phase (of the configure
test)... with a qmake project and makefile instead it seems to work...
I've already emailed to the author as well :-)
I don't develop under windows either (using Linux instead), but I always
port my programs in windows using cygwin, that's why I was concerned...
Under linux that macro works perfectly...
I was also thinking of using the pkg-config approach, since qt ships the
.pc files
Good luck with it.
thanks!
hope to have some good news soon :-)
cheers
Lorenzo
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