building qt 5.x under windows developer prompt

osssome · wrote on 1 Oct 2015, 22:46

Hi,

I'm new to buliding Qt so I don't know how to debug build issues. Here's what I have:

    nmake clean & configure.bat -developer-build -opensource -nomake examples -nomake tests -no-openssl & nmake

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    Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 12.00.21005.1
    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

            cd preprocessor\ && ( if not exist Makefile c:\Users\me\qt5\qtbase\bin\qmake.exe C:\Users\me\qt5\qtbase\src\angle\src\compiler\preprocessor\preprocessor.pro -o Makefile ) && nmake -f Makefile

    Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 12.00.21005.1
    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

            nmake -f Makefile.Debug all

    Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 12.00.21005.1
    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

            (set PATH=C:/Users/me/qt5/gnuwin32/bin;%PATH:)=^)%) & flex --noline --nounistd --outfile=Tokenizer.cpp ..\..\..\..\3rdparty\angle\src\compiler\preprocessor\Tokenizer.l
    flex: unknown flag '-'.  For usage, try
            flex --help
    NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '(set' : return code '0x1'
    Stop.
    NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\BIN\nmake.EXE"' : return code '0x2'
    Stop.
    NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
    Stop.
    NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
    Stop.
    NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
    Stop.
    NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
    Stop.
    NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
    Stop.
    NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
    Stop.

What can I look at to help me solve this? Thanks

osssome · wrote on 2 Oct 2015, 06:52

Solved.

In this case the build config created something that gave double dash options to flex, which expected single dash options.

The 5.5.0 source was pulled from git. It's possible I ran "perl init-rrepository" in the wrong environment. Not sure.

Deleted all of the source and used the source zip instead. Everything went smoothly.

SGaist · wrote on 2 Oct 2015, 07:08

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Out of curiosity and since you used the developer-build option, are you intending to develop a feature or a bug fix for Qt ? If not you shouldn't use it.

osssome · wrote on 2 Oct 2015, 21:12

Hi SG,

I need .pdb files. Looking to track down a bug in a project that uses Qt.

SGaist · wrote on 2 Oct 2015, 21:19

Then use the -debug option when building

osssome · wrote on 2 Oct 2015, 21:22

OK Thanks