building static Qt6 results in ABI "unknown"

[mzimmers]

Hi all -

I tried building a static Qt installation (on Windows) using the steps on this page. The build seems to work, but when I add my new Qt version in Creator, the ABI shows as follows:

ABI: unknown-unknown-unknown-unknown-unknown

Obviously, I can't build with this.

Anyone have an idea what I might have done wrong here?

Thanks...

[cristian-adam]

Which compiler did you use to build on Windows?

[mzimmers]

@cristian-adam presumably the one in my PATH environment variable: C:\Qt\Tools\mingw1120_64\bin.

EDIT:

C:\Qt\Tools\mingw1120_64\bin>g++ -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=g++
Target: x86_64-w64-mingw32

EDIT 2:

Actually, this doesn't appear to be the case -- I had installed Strawberry Perl which included its own toolchain, and appears ahead of C:\Qt\Tools\mingw1120_64\bin in my PATH. The version in Strawberry is GNU 8.3.0.

I'll get my IT department to remove Strawberry and see if that changes things.

[mzimmers]

Here are the details of my newly-built Qt:

Name: Qt 6.2.4 (6.2.4_static)
ABI:	unknown-unknown-unknown-unknown-unknown
Source:	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static
mkspec:	win32-g++
qmake:	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static\bin\qmake.exe
Version:	6.2.4
QMAKE_SPEC	win32-g++
QMAKE_VERSION	3.1
QMAKE_XSPEC	win32-g++
QT_HOST_BINS	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static\bin
QT_HOST_DATA	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static
QT_HOST_LIBEXECS	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static\bin
QT_HOST_LIBS	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static\lib
QT_HOST_PREFIX	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static
QT_INSTALL_ARCHDATA	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static
QT_INSTALL_BINS	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static\bin
QT_INSTALL_CONFIGURATION	
QT_INSTALL_DATA	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static
QT_INSTALL_DEMOS	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static\examples
QT_INSTALL_DOCS	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static\doc
QT_INSTALL_EXAMPLES	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static\examples
QT_INSTALL_HEADERS	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static\include
QT_INSTALL_LIBEXECS	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static\bin
QT_INSTALL_LIBS	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static\lib
QT_INSTALL_PLUGINS	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static\plugins
QT_INSTALL_PREFIX	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static
QT_INSTALL_QML	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static\qml
QT_INSTALL_TESTS	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static\tests
QT_INSTALL_TRANSLATIONS	C:\Qt\6.2.4_static\translations
QT_SYSROOT	
QT_VERSION	6.2.4

Any suggestions as to what I did wrong would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks...

[mzimmers]

BTT. Anyone?

Thanks...

[cristian-adam]

The above information comes from Qt Creator, and for some reason parseCoffHeader function is not detecting the ABI of your qmake executable.

I think this is good enough for a bug report at https://bugreports.qt.io/ with the executable attached 😊

Last time I checked a static build of Qt, I used the MSVC compiler, and worked fine. MinGW 11.2.0 might have a problem.

[mzimmers]

Done.

Thanks. I'll keep this open until I get some resolution on it, then summarize it here.

[mzimmers]

@cristian-adam I see you're the assignee on this. Feel free to contact me if you want any more information, or want me to try something.

[mzimmers]

This has been fixed in a development release of Creator 8.0.0 beta 2, and can be found here. Marking as solved. Thanks for the help.