[CMake] Windows Qt CMake 2.8 build question

[Clinton Stimpson]

The Qt you installed was compiled with mingw, and will not work with Visual 
Studio.

Your choices are to compile cmake with mingw (the compiler comes with the Qt 
sdk) or build Qt with Visual Studio so you can build cmake with Visual Studio.

Clint

On Thursday 12 November 2009 10:51:49 am Steven Wilson wrote:
> Caveat:  I am a complete Qt novice.
>
> I'm trying to build the 2.8 CVS branch of CMake on Windows and would like
> to build the Qt GUI.  I downloaded and installed the LGPL/Free Windows Qt
> SDK from the Nokia website.   When I use the CMake 2.6.4 or CMake 2.8.0 RC
> 7 GUI to configure the build for Visual Studio(2008) (with the Qt GUI
> enabled) I get the following error from CMake:
>
> CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
> 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindQt4.cmake:771 (MESSAGE):
>   It appears you're trying to use Visual Studio with Qt built by mingw
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>   Source/QtDialog/CMakeLists.txt:14 (FIND_PACKAGE)
>
> The FindQT4.cmake package indicates that it is looking for a qmake.exe
> binary to run to configure the rest of the Qt CMake variables.  I set my
> PATH environment variable to point to C:\Qt\2009.4\qt\bin so that the
> FindQT4.cmake package can find the qmake binary, but it seems to think that
> qmake is for mingw.
>
> I have also tried setting my PATH variable to point to
> C:\Qt\2009.4\qt\qmake so that it can find the qmake in that directory, but
> using that one gives errors about temporary library versions of the Qt
> library not being installed.   The FindQT4.cmake file tries to query the
> qmake binary for QT_INSTALL_LIBS and qt\qmake\qmake.exe from the SDK I
> installed returns the following:
>
> C:/qt-greenhouse/Trolltech/Code_less_create_more/Trolltech/Code_less_create
>_more /Troll/4.5.0/qt/lib
>
> This path of course does not exist on my system and appears to be an
> artifact of the Qt build process from Nokia.
>
> I can not find any other qmake.exe binaries on the system and at this point
> I do not understand why the configuration does not work.
>
> If you have any advice that you can offer, I will greatly appreciate the
> help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve