QML Image: Cannot open - CMake qrc

[Kevin470]

Hello,
I believe I have asked this question under the wrong "General and Desktop" topic last time - https://forum.qt.io/topic/144329/qml-image-cannot-open-cmake-qrc

This should have been the topic under which I should have asked it.

I have learnt a bit of Qt Core and Qt Widgets and worked out a few small projects with them. I am starting to learn QML and most of the tutorials out there (including KDAB in YouTube) show compiling and building using .pro files.
I have Qt 6.5 and Qt Creator 10.0 installed at the moment and I would like to learn it using CMake.

I have the same problem as this person here on Stack Overflow - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71011319/image-not-displaying-qt6-c-cmake

I added an image file to a .qrc resource file and I am trying to display that image. Every time the project runs, I get this message qrc:/qml_testing/qml/Main.qml:10:5: QML Image: Cannot open: qrc:/images/linux.png. The QML Debugger Console is empty.

CMakeLists.txt file:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)

project(qml_testing VERSION 0.1 LANGUAGES CXX)

set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)

find_package(Qt6 6.4 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Quick)

qt_standard_project_setup()

qt_add_executable(appqml_testing
    main.cpp
    qml/resources/resource.qrc
)

qt_add_qml_module(appqml_testing
    URI qml_testing
    VERSION 1.0
    QML_FILES qml/Main.qml
)

set_target_properties(appqml_testing PROPERTIES
    MACOSX_BUNDLE_GUI_IDENTIFIER my.example.com
    MACOSX_BUNDLE_BUNDLE_VERSION ${PROJECT_VERSION}
    MACOSX_BUNDLE_SHORT_VERSION_STRING ${PROJECT_VERSION_MAJOR}.${PROJECT_VERSION_MINOR}
    MACOSX_BUNDLE TRUE
    WIN32_EXECUTABLE TRUE
)

target_link_libraries(appqml_testing
    PRIVATE Qt6::Quick
)

install(TARGETS appqml_testing
    BUNDLE DESTINATION .
    LIBRARY DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR})

main.cpp file:

#include <QGuiApplication>
#include <QQmlApplicationEngine>


int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QGuiApplication app(argc, argv);

    QQmlApplicationEngine engine;
    const QUrl url(u"qrc:/qml_testing/qml/Main.qml"_qs);
    QObject::connect(&engine, &QQmlApplicationEngine::objectCreationFailed,
        &app, []() { QCoreApplication::exit(-1); },
        Qt::QueuedConnection);
    engine.load(url);

    return app.exec();
}

Main.qml file:

import QtQuick
import QtQuick.Window

Window {
    width: 640
    height: 480
    visible: true
    title: qsTr("Hello World")

    Image {
        id: image
        source: "qrc:/images/linux.png"
        anchors.centerIn: parent
    }
}

P.S - I enabled the QmlDesigner plugin and tried to drag and drop an image on the screen and select the source from the resource. The Designer shows the image on the display, but when the project is run, the screen is empty.

My directory structure looks like this:

Thank you so much in advance.

[JohnKS]

Was facing the same problem too, i found out that i need to add

set(CMAKE_AUTORCC ON)

to the cmake file and it's working now.
Try adding it this may be the answer to your problem

Edit : make sure to add this line before the

qt_add_executable(appqml_testing
    main.cpp
    qml/resources/resource.qrc
)

line

[JoeCFD]

@Kevin470 try to find the qrc_resources.cpp file under Build Dir. Open it in an editor and scroll all way to the bottom. You will be able to see the right path of linux.png. Use that path in your qml code.

[Kevin470]

@JoeCFD Thank you so much for responding. The build directory does not have the qrc_resources.cpp file that you meant. These are all the cpp files generated after building the project.

Is there something else that I could be doing wrong? The project has successfully included the qrc file to be seen and interacted with on Qt Creator. But after build and run, it is disregarded.

[JoeCFD]

@Kevin470 can you show your resources.qrc for your images files here?

[Kevin470]

@JoeCFD
This is the directory in which the resource.qrc file is present. I hope this is what you mentioned

<RCC>
    <qresource prefix="/images">
        <file>linux.png</file>
    </qresource>
</RCC>

[JohnKS]

Was facing the same problem too, i found out that i need to add

set(CMAKE_AUTORCC ON)

to the cmake file and it's working now.
Try adding it this may be the answer to your problem

Edit : make sure to add this line before the

qt_add_executable(appqml_testing
    main.cpp
    qml/resources/resource.qrc
)

line

[Kevin470]

@JohnKS This works. Thank you so much.

[ajaxqt]

@Kevin470 think you！it also works with me.

[Colins2]

@JohnKS said in QML Image: Cannot open - CMake qrc:

set(CMAKE_AUTORCC ON)

I found that if I add the line "qml/resources/resource.qrc" where you suggest I get a compile error.
I simply added resource.qrc to the modules section like this:
qt_add_qml_module(appBasicElementsDemoImage
URI BasicElementsDemoImage
VERSION 1.0
QML_FILES Main.qml resource.qrc

Adding the set(CMAKE_AUTORCC ON) worked just fine.

[Colins2]

@Colins2 It is maybe also worth noting that in the CMakelists template for a Qt Widgets application, i.e. a C++ app, the set(CMAKE_AUTORCC ON) statement is present by default.
I have now added this to my QtQuick template to avoid future problems.

[leo738]

This post seem to work for me:

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/cmake-build-qml-application.html

I didn't need to add

set(CMAKE_AUTORCC ON)

Relevant part of CMakeLists.txt:

qt_add_qml_module(appqmlDemo
    URI qmlDemo
    VERSION 1.0
    QML_FILES
        Main.qml
    RESOURCES
        images/menu_24px.png
)

My project structure:

├── CMakeLists.txt
├── CMakeLists.txt.user
├── images
│   └── menu_24px.png
├── main.cpp
├── Main.qml

I used the image in the qml file as:

ToolButton {
            id: menuButton
            anchors.left: parent.left
            anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter
            icon.source: "images/menu_24px.png"
            onClicked: drawer.open()
        }

[Eddy]

@leo738
Thx
Still works for Qt6.6.1 and Qt Creator 12.0.0

[fixgoats]

@JohnKS Wow, I just spent like an hour trying to figure this out and copying detailed tutorials verbatim to try and get it working and it's this non-default flag that apparently doesn't always need to be set seeing as it doesn't appear anywhere in Qt's examples. It would be really helpful if this was mentioned more prominently somewhere.