[Ctk-developers] getting things to work in windows

[Mark Roden]

Ah, so making sure not to use the SDK sounds like the primary failure
then.  I'll check it out.

Thanks,
Mark

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Sascha Zelzer
<s.zelzer at dkfz-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> What is your development environment?
>
> If you are using Visual Studio 2008 and want to create 32 bit binaries,
> there is no reason to compile Qt yourself. Use the pre-build binaries for
> Nokia: http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/windows-cpp-vs2008 (*NOT* the SDK, this
> one is MinGW based) and set the QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE variable in CMake to
> e.g. C:\Qt\4.7.1\bin\qmake.exe.
>
> - Sascha
>
> On 01/18/2011 03:25 PM, Mark Roden wrote:
>>
>> Hi Sascha,
>>
>> Thanks for this, I'll look into it this morning.
>>
>> I want to build Qt because cmake fails to find qt on my system when I
>> use the sdk downloaded from qt.  The thought was that building Qt
>> would allow cmake to see what it needs to see to include Qt.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Sascha Zelzer
>> <s.zelzer at dkfz-heidelberg.de>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> looking at your command line, I see that you invoke configure from a Qt
>>> SDK
>>> installation directory. This SDK is MinGW based. If you want to build Qt
>>> yourself, get the raw sources
>>>
>>> (http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.1.zip),
>>> unpack them in a folder (without spaces in the name) and configure from
>>> inside there.
>>>
>>> Why do you want to build Qt yourself in the first place? This should only
>>> be
>>> necessary if you want 64bit binaries or a Visual Studio 2010 compiled Qt.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Sascha
>>>
>>> On 01/18/2011 06:52 AM, Mark Roden wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Running in administrator mode (which should have the same effect as
>>>> turning off the UAC) does not solve the problem, but produces a new
>>>> bug:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> mt.exe : general error c101008d: Failed to write the updated manifest
>>>> to the resource of file "..\..\..\bin\idc.exe". Access is denied.
>>>>
>>>> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft
>>>> SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\mt.exe"' : return code '0x1f'
>>>> Stop.
>>>> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
>>>> Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
>>>> Stop.
>>>> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
>>>> Stop.
>>>>
>>>> with the command line:
>>>> D:\Qt\2010.05\qt>configure -release -platform win32-msvc2008 -no-dsp
>>>> -no-vcproj
>>>>
>>>> I find it very hard to believe that I have a completely broken Qt
>>>> installation, or that I'm the only one with this problem, yet there it
>>>> is.
>>>>
>>>> I'll try again from scratch, maybe that will solve the issue.
>>>>
>>>
>
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