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What is required for link Widgets?

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  • C Christian Ehrlicher
    21 Aug 2020, 15:25

    Simply try out to see what linker errors you get. I would guess there are no errors when you use qmake or cmake.

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    continue98
    wrote on 21 Aug 2020, 18:25 last edited by continue98
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    @Christian-Ehrlicher build.log. Is linked:

    "Qt5Core", 
    "Qt5Gui",
    "Qt5Widgets",
    "Qt5EventDispatcherSupport",
    "Qt5FontDatabaseSupport",
    "Qt5PlatformCompositorSupport",
    "Qt5ThemeSupport",
    "qtfreetype",
    "qtlibpng",
    "qtpcre2",
    "qtharfbuzz",
    "dl",
    "pthread"
    

    what the linker still lacks libraries?

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      wrote on 22 Aug 2020, 07:13 last edited by
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      @continue98 said in What is required for link Widgets?:

      what the linker still lacks libraries?

      ?

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      • C Christian Ehrlicher
        22 Aug 2020, 07:13

        @continue98 said in What is required for link Widgets?:

        what the linker still lacks libraries?

        ?

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        wrote on 22 Aug 2020, 07:33 last edited by
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        @Christian-Ehrlicher what libraries do I need to add in order for the app to link?

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          22 Aug 2020, 07:33

          @Christian-Ehrlicher what libraries do I need to add in order for the app to link?

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          wrote on 22 Aug 2020, 07:37 last edited by
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          @continue98
          I think you need to make it a lot clearer that your one word build.log is actually a link to your compiler (linker) output.....

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          • J JonB
            22 Aug 2020, 07:37

            @continue98
            I think you need to make it a lot clearer that your one word build.log is actually a link to your compiler (linker) output.....

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            wrote on 22 Aug 2020, 07:44 last edited by
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            @JonB said in What is required for link Widgets?:

            I think you need to make it a lot clearer that your one word build.log is actually a link to your compiler (linker) output.....

            What? build.log - stdout / stderr from make. What should I show?

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            • C continue98
              22 Aug 2020, 07:44

              @JonB said in What is required for link Widgets?:

              I think you need to make it a lot clearer that your one word build.log is actually a link to your compiler (linker) output.....

              What? build.log - stdout / stderr from make. What should I show?

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              wrote on 22 Aug 2020, 07:55 last edited by JonB
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              @continue98 said in What is required for link Widgets?:

              What?

              All you wrote earlier was:

              @Christian-Ehrlicher build.log. Is linked:

              I for one did not understand that the word build.log in that line was actually a hyperlink to the output from your link, showing what remains unreferenced. Maybe @Christian-Ehrlicher did notice this, maybe he did not. It took me a while to spot.

              All I am saying is, I would have indicated something like:

              Please click on this link to see what remains unreferenced when I try to link: build.log.

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                22 Aug 2020, 07:55

                @continue98 said in What is required for link Widgets?:

                What?

                All you wrote earlier was:

                @Christian-Ehrlicher build.log. Is linked:

                I for one did not understand that the word build.log in that line was actually a hyperlink to the output from your link, showing what remains unreferenced. Maybe @Christian-Ehrlicher did notice this, maybe he did not. It took me a while to spot.

                All I am saying is, I would have indicated something like:

                Please click on this link to see what remains unreferenced when I try to link: build.log.

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                wrote on 22 Aug 2020, 08:39 last edited by
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                @JonB: No I did not.

                @continue98: How did you build Qt. What build system do you use (I already asked you). From looking at your log I doubt you're correctly linking against the other static Qt libs.

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                • C Christian Ehrlicher
                  22 Aug 2020, 08:39

                  @JonB: No I did not.

                  @continue98: How did you build Qt. What build system do you use (I already asked you). From looking at your log I doubt you're correctly linking against the other static Qt libs.

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                  wrote on 22 Aug 2020, 08:49 last edited by
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                  @Christian-Ehrlicher I am use build-system premake5. All libraries that I link to the project:

                  "Qt5Core", 
                  "Qt5Gui",
                  "Qt5Widgets",
                  "Qt5EventDispatcherSupport",
                  "Qt5FontDatabaseSupport",
                  "Qt5PlatformCompositorSupport",
                  "Qt5ThemeSupport",
                  "qtfreetype",
                  "qtlibpng",
                  "qtpcre2",
                  "qtharfbuzz",
                  "dl",
                  "pthread"
                  

                  Qt configure (static build):

                  ./init-repository &> init_repo.log && ./configure -debug -static -static-runtime -opensource -confirm-license -platform linux-g++-32 -qt-zlib -qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -skip qtwebchannel -skip qtwebengine -skip qtwebsockets -skip qtwebview -nomake examples -nomake tests -prefix "/usr/local/Qt_binary/5.15.0-gcc-static_x86/Debug" &> configure.log && sudo make -j 6 &> build.log
                  
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                    wrote on 22 Aug 2020, 09:02 last edited by
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                    Sorry I don't know how to use premake and how to make sure there that the correct qmake executable and static Qt libs are used.

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                    • C Christian Ehrlicher
                      22 Aug 2020, 09:02

                      Sorry I don't know how to use premake and how to make sure there that the correct qmake executable and static Qt libs are used.

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                      wrote on 22 Aug 2020, 09:17 last edited by continue98
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                      @Christian-Ehrlicher The problem is not in the technical part, how to use it in premake. The problem is that I don't know which libraries are still needed (undefined reference).

                      qt_libs = { 
                      	"Qt5Core", 
                      	"Qt5Gui",
                      	"Qt5Widgets",
                      	"Qt5EventDispatcherSupport",
                      	"Qt5FontDatabaseSupport",
                      	"Qt5WindowsUIAutomationSupport", // analog for Linux?
                      	"Qt5PlatformCompositorSupport",
                      	"Qt5ThemeSupport",
                      	"qtfreetype",
                      	"qtmain", // analog for Linux? 
                      	"qtlibpng",
                      	"qtpcre2",
                      	"qwindows", // analog for Linux?
                      	"qtharfbuzz"
                      }
                      links { qt_libs }
                      

                      Everything links perfectly and works (Windows 10), but Linux needs some other libraries and there is no difference at all what you use for the build system (cmake, premake, etc..). It forces GCC to link it with the -l flag anyway.

                      LIBS += -lQt5Core -lQt5Gui -lQt5Widgets -lQt5EventDispatcherSupport -lQt5FontDatabaseSupport -lQt5PlatformCompositorSupport -lQt5ThemeSupport -lqtfreetype -lqtlibpng -lqtpcre2 -lqtharfbuzz -ldl -lpthread
                      ALL_LDFLAGS += $(LDFLAGS) -L/usr/local/Qt_binary/5.15.0-gcc-static_x86/Debug/lib -L/usr/local/Qt_binary/5.15.0-gcc-static_x86/Debug/plugins/platforms -L/usr/lib32 -m32 -static -static-libstdc++
                      
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                        wrote on 22 Aug 2020, 13:43 last edited by Christian Ehrlicher
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                        @continue98 said in What is required for link Widgets?:

                        there is no difference at all what you use for the build system (cmake, premake, etc..)

                        It is - I know that I don't need to add extra libs when Qt is linked statically with cmake or qmake. So in there scripts there must be something which is not added by premake

                        /edit: and as you can see here it looks like even you added Qt5Gui, a symbol from there is not found so it must be something with the build system picking up the wrong libs or similar problems:

                        /home/continue/qt5/qtbase/src/widgets/../../include/QtGui/5.15.0/QtGui/private/../../../../../src/gui/kernel/qguiapplication_p.h:284: undefined reference to `QTouchEvent::TouchPoint::TouchPoint(QTouchEvent::TouchPoint const&)'

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                        • C Christian Ehrlicher
                          22 Aug 2020, 13:43

                          @continue98 said in What is required for link Widgets?:

                          there is no difference at all what you use for the build system (cmake, premake, etc..)

                          It is - I know that I don't need to add extra libs when Qt is linked statically with cmake or qmake. So in there scripts there must be something which is not added by premake

                          /edit: and as you can see here it looks like even you added Qt5Gui, a symbol from there is not found so it must be something with the build system picking up the wrong libs or similar problems:

                          /home/continue/qt5/qtbase/src/widgets/../../include/QtGui/5.15.0/QtGui/private/../../../../../src/gui/kernel/qguiapplication_p.h:284: undefined reference to `QTouchEvent::TouchPoint::TouchPoint(QTouchEvent::TouchPoint const&)'

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                          wrote on 22 Aug 2020, 23:35 last edited by continue98
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                          @Christian-Ehrlicher

                          Ok. I am enable linksgroup. Linking works now. But some error:

                          qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in ""
                          This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
                          

                          If add: Q_IMPORT_PLUGIN (QXcbIntegrationPlugin) . Some error:

                          /home/continue/qt5/qtbase/src/plugins/platforms/xcb/qxcbmain.cpp:56: undefined reference to `QXcbIntegration::QXcbIntegration(QStringList const&, int&, char**)'
                          
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                            wrote on 23 Aug 2020, 11:53 last edited by
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                            @continue98 said in What is required for link Widgets?:

                            QXcbIntegration

                            this is a separate plugin / library which you don't link against as it seems.

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