[Qt-interest] Re : silly library question

[d3fault]

I tried adding "C:\Qt\2010.05\mingw\bin" to my system PATH variable, but 
I still get the same error when trying to compile.

On 5/5/2011 7:08 PM, Gopalakrishna Bhat wrote:
> Is the PATH for mingw added to the environment?
> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Vsexpressvc/thread/325b5459-c469-40d0-bf6d-e3356a2f14cd/
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:46 PM, d3fault <d3faultdotxbe at gmail.com 
> <mailto:d3faultdotxbe at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     eh i tried doing:
>     LIBS += "C:/curl-7.21.6-devel-mingw32/lib/libcurl.a"
>     and even:
>     LIBS += "C:/curl-7.21.6-devel-mingw32/lib/libcurldll.a"
>     (there is no .lib file in /lib/)
>
>     but neither work.
>
>     i changed my double forwardslashes to backslashes as well... but
>     it doesn't make any difference.
>
>     Oddly enough, doing:
>     LIBS += "C:/curl-7.21.6-devel-mingw32/bin/libcurl.dll"
>
>     lets it compile, but then it crashes when I try to run it with error: "During startup program exited with code 0x0000135."
>
>
>     I'm glad none of you have the answer. Makes me feel less stupid.
>
>     .... but seriously... this is such a basic task..... why is
>     including an external library so damn hard? I've used libcurl in
>     C# and it wasn't nearly as difficult.
>
>     And to those of you trying to get me to invoke qmake manually:
>     fuck that. It's a bug in qt creator if you have to invoke the
>     command line to include an external library.
>
>
>     On 5/5/2011 8:23 AM, BOUCARD Olivier wrote:
>>     AFAIK, he uses QtCreator, so it is MinGW.
>>     The .lib its for Visual.
>>
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>>
>>         Hi!
>>
>>         I've had similar issues with one of my projects, with also
>>         need to link to
>>         SDL and ZLIB...
>>
>>         I finally figured that you need to specify the .lib file, not
>>         just the
>>         directory where the .lib and .dll files reside! Example:
>>
>>         LIBS += C:\curl-7.21.6-devel-mingw32\lib\curl.lib
>>
>>         I don't know if forward or backward slashes make a difference
>>         here, I've use
>>         back-slashes... also, I use a script to produce the .vcxproj
>>         file for VS
>>         2010 and specify the "LIBS += ..." statement on the qmake
>>         command line, not
>>         in the .pro file, but I don't think it matters.
>>
>>         HTH, René
>>         -- 
>>         René Reucher
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