building qt 5.x under windows developer prompt

osssome

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

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

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

Hi SG,

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

SGaist

Then use the -debug option when building

osssome

OK Thanks