[Development] Qt 5 beta

[jan-arve.saether at nokia.com]

ext Yves Bailly wrote on 2012-08-30:

> Greetings all,
> 
> Le 30/08/2012 13:23, lars.knoll at nokia.com a écrit :
>> the Qt 5 beta has now been released. Please find all the details at
>> 
>> http://www.qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-5-Beta
>> 
>> and my blog post at
>> 
>> http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2012/08/30/qt5-beta-is-here
>> 
>> Enjoy!
> 
> Trying to compile on Windows 7 64bits using MSVC 2010 (32bits compiler).
> After having read the provided README.
> 
> D:\qt\qt5-5.0.0-win32-msvc2010>configure -help
> + D:/qt/qt5-5.0.0-win32-msvc2010/qtbase/configure -help
> Please wait while bootstrapping configure ...
> 
> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 10.00.30319.01
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> 
>          cl -c -Yc -nologo -Zm200 -Zc:wchar_t -MT -W3 -GR -EHsc
> -w34100 -w34189  -DUNICODE -DQT_NO_CODECS -DQT_NO_TEXTCODEC -
> DQT_NO_UNICODETABLES -DQT_LITE_COMPO NENT -DQT_NO_COMPRESS -
> DQT_NO_THREAD -DQT_NO_QOBJECT -DQT_NO_GEOM_VARIANT -
> D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -DQT_BOOTSTRAPPED -DCOMMERCIAL_VERSION -
> I"..\..\include" -I "..\..\include\QtCore" -
> I"..\..\include\QtCore\5.0.0" -I"..\..\include\QtCore\5.0.0\QtCore"
> -I"D:\qt\qt5-5.0.0-win32-msvc2010\qtbase\tools\shared" -I"D:\qt\qt5-
> 5.0.0-win32-msvc2010\qtbase\mkspecs\win32-msvc2008" -
> Fpconfigure_pch.pch -Foconfigure_pch.obj -TP D:\qt\qt5-5.0.0-win32-
> msvc2010\qtbase\tools\configure\configur e_pch.h configure_pch.h
> D:\qt\qt5-5.0.0-win32-
> msvc2010\qtbase\tools\configure\configure_pch.h(49) : fatal error C1083:
> Cannot open include file: 'qlist.h': No such file or directory NMAKE :
> fatal error U1077: 'C:\vs10\VC\BIN\cl.EXE' : return code '0x2' Stop. ***
> qtbase/configure exited with non-zero status.
> 
> 
> ...and some others, missing "QtCore/qalgorithms.h"...
> 
> - Added to -I"..\..\src\corelib\tools" to EXTRA_CXXFLAGS
> - Changed ...\qtbase\src\corelib\tools\qlist.h to #include
>    "qalgorithms.h" instead of "QtCore/qalgorithms.h"
> 
> ...and more errors like those ones...
> 
> Giving up for now. However if someone want me to try something I'll be
> glad to try, I just don't have time to dig myself.
> 
> *sigh*
>

configure.bat will run perl. Please check if it will use the ActiveState perl, and not the perl shipped with msysgit.

I always put the ActiveState perl directory as the first path in %PATH% in order to avoid this.

Jan Arve