[CMake] cmake-gui on windows and qt5 dlls

[Craig Scott]

This is a common problem, not just with CMake. I'm wondering if there's any
real need for cmake-gui to be on the PATH at all, since it will usually be
invoked by a desktop or menu icon. At the moment though, it is in the same
directory as the cmake and ccmake executables which have a much stronger
case for being on the PATH. There's a reasonable argument that cmake-gui
should be in a different directory, then it wouldn't be an issue if shared
Qt libs were used rather than static. I'll bring this up on the developer
mailing list and see what discussions yield.


On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Christian Ehrlicher <Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently upgraded from cmake 3.3 to 3.9 on windows and got some problems
> during my build because it looks like the pre-compile binaries for windows
> are now shipping Qt5 - dlls instead static compile libs (since 3.5 afaics).
> The problem is, that I had the path to cmake *before* the path to my own
> Qt5 libaries. So during the build / run of my application, the wrong
> libraries were loaded and I got a symbol lookup error.
> Would it be possible to use the static Qt5 libs instead or maybe prefix
> the Qt5 libs shipped with cmake-gui somehow?
>
> Thx,
> Christian
>
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Craig Scott
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