[Qt-creator] Link errors when building on linux

[Christian Gagneraud]

On 26/10/2017 4:06 PM, Frank Miller wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm new to qt-creator and would like to build from the source on linux
> but I am experiencing a curious linker error. I get the same error on
> the 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, and master git branches. The error message looks like
> this:
> 
>      .obj/release-shared/projectexplorer.o: In function 
> `ProjectExplorer::ProjectExplorerPlugin::initialize(QStringList const&, 
> QString*)':
>      projectexplorer.cpp:(.text+0x216f): undefined reference to 
> `ProjectExplorer::Internal::WinDebugInterface::WinDebugInterface(QObject*)'
>      projectexplorer.cpp:(.text+0x2196): undefined reference to 
> `ProjectExplorer::Internal::MsvcToolChainFactory::MsvcToolChainFactory()'
>      collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> I would be happy to provide the usual system details like OS, compiler,
> Qt version, and so on but I don't think its relevant. The error is quite
> easy to understand. The projectexplorer.pro <http://projectexplorer.pro> 
> file lists cpp files that
> are only built on windows but code from the corresponding headers is
> referenced on any OS. Here is a change that I made to fix the issue.

But the error could be due to your setup, so tell us about your setup 
(OS, compiler), which git hash are you  at, local modifications, ...
Did you try a clean rebuild (eg after a git clean -dfx)...

> I merely substituted a runtime branch on the OS with a compile time
> branch on the OS. After this, it builds and runs fine as far as I can
> tell. I probably should just submit a bug report and be done but the
> fact that this issue exists for me in all the recent release branches
> made me want to post a message on this forum and see what people think.
> I must be doing something unusual right? I can't be the only one who
> wants to build on linux.

I've built QtC-4.5 from git on Linux very recently and i didn't get this 
build errors.

Chris

> 
> Thanks for the great project!
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
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