I followed these instructions here : Qt with CMake
so now I can build my project but the problem is, I can't see the project's sources and headers. I have just a CMakeLists.txt on the left and that's it. I don't understand how can I fix this. On Visual Studio, when I used CMake, all sources and headers of my project were appeared.
Thanks you.
Qt Creator shows only files which are listed in your CMakeLists.txt as source files. Add them there and they will show up in the UI.
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
project(MyProject)
add_executable(my_exe main.cpp)
Now main.cpp will be visible in the "Projects" pane in Qt Creator.
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I am using FileDialog from Qt.labs.platform 1.1 on win 10 in Qt creator, compilator I use is Desktop Qt 5.15.2. MinGW 64 bit.
In the debug mode is working everthing fine but when I change to release mode I get following error in from the compilator:
QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component
qrc:/main.qml:6:1: module "Qt.labs.platform" is not installed
I tried things like clean and rebuild or restart the computer and also change the number of import version but nothing helps. Any ideas how to solve that, please?
Check folder, where you are building your release (where *.exe is generated):
does it contains some Qt's *.dll's?
If yes: there is two ways to resolve your problem:
Remove all Qt *.dll's and run your application from Qt Creator (then Qt Creator will take all Qt *.dll's from folder, where Qt is installed).
Or add all needed Qt *.dll's with correct folder structure to folder with your release *.exe (to do it for Windows release use windeployqt tool: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/windows-deployment.html )
Why you have such error from the compilator?
Because you have some Qt *.dll's in your release folder (beside the *.exe), but not all needed (e.g. you have only Qt6Core.dll). So Qt Creator will find this dll and will try to find other dll's in your release folder. Qt Creator will not check its installation directory to get dll's.
But if you have no Qt *.dll's in your release folder, then Qt Creator will find them in its installation directory.
I took over a Qt project using cmake on Windows platform; every time I open this project in Qt Creator IDE (by open the top level CMakeLists.txt), Qt Creator always re-run cmake for this project. Then when I run this project, even without changing anything, cmake will re-build the complete project (because cmake is re-run).
How can I avoid such re-build? I use cmake 3.12 and Qt Creator 4.10
p/s: I noticed that there is a similar question [1], but the answer there doesn't help to avoid the re-run.
[1] Can I prevent auto-run of CMake at startup of Qt Creator 4?
I have scoured the internet for information regarding the installation process for plugins into Qt Designer and I have found no helpful/relevant information.
The plugin I want to install is the echo plugin.
I have also looked through the Qt Designer program files and found the echoplugin folder but have no idea how to install it. Here is the file location:
C:\Qt\Examples\Qt-5.5\widgets\tools\echoplugin
This holds the following file types; Qt Project Files, C++ Header, C++ Source and JSON
System Information
Windows 10
PyQt4
Qt Designer 5.5.0
Official documentation describes it very well.
To install plugin for Qt Designer or Qt Creator you need to place the plugin to plugins\designer directory.
For Qt Creator it is located in it's bin directory.
Qt Designer is a part of Qt installation so directory will be QTDIR\plugins\designer where QTDIR is Qt installation path (for me it is "E:\DEV\Qt\5.5\msvc2015_desktop_shared" and full plugins path is "E:\DEV\Qt\5.5\msvc2015_desktop_shared\plugins\designer").
One important thing - Qt Designer / Qt Creator and the plugin must be compiled using the same compiler version. You can not install plugin compiled with MSVC 2015 to Qt Designer compiled with MSVC 2013!
Edit:
I am using C++ version of Qt.
It looks like echo plugin is not a plugin for Qt Designer / Qt Creator.
I am trying to integrate VTK and Qt but unfortunately for some reasons I cannot. Currently, I can run VTK's examples except those using Qt's user interface. For example, examples in tutorial work but examples in infovis cannot be run.
I followed the guide on http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Configure_and_Build. All parts were done successfully except :
cmake -DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE:PATH=/path/to/qt-4.8.6-build/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6/bin/qmake \
-DVTK_Group_Qt:BOOL=ON \
-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBRARIES:BOOL=ON \
/path/to/VTK
when I was in VTK-build directory, it said that there was no path/to/VTK. So, I changed to VTK and removed /path/to/VTK and it worked.
Whenever I tried to build an aforementioned example, Qt says :
cannot find -lQVTK
error: cannot find -lvtkRendering ....
I really appreciate any help you can provide.
If you have installed the VTK in a folder named, say, "VTK-install", then check if you have QVTK.lib in the VTK-install/lib/vtk-5.10/ folder. (your vtk version will be different though).
In the Qt Creator, you have to edit the pro file. This is what you have to add to the end of the pro file created in Qt creator.
INCLUDEPATH += C:\\VTK\\VTK-install\\include\\vtk-5.10
LIBS += -LC:\\VTK\\VTK-install\\lib\\vtk-5.10
LIBS += -lvtkCommon\
-lvtksys\
-lQVTK\
-lvtkViews\
-lvtkWidgets\
-lvtkInfovis\
-lvtkRendering\
-lvtkGraphics\
-lvtkImaging\
-lvtkIO\
-lvtkFiltering\
-lvtklibxml2\
-lvtkDICOMParser\
-lvtkpng\
-lvtkpng\
-lvtktiff\
-lvtkzlib\
-lvtkjpeg\
-lvtkalglib\
-lvtkexpat\
-lvtkverdict\
-lvtkmetaio\
-lvtkNetCDF\
-lvtksqlite\
-lvtkexoIIc\
-lvtkftgl\
-lvtkfreetype\
-lvtkHybrid\
And run it in release mode. This should work fine.
If this doesn't work, make sure you have installed Qt and VTK correctly. You can check out this tutorial on how you should install Qt with VTK in MS Visual Studio 2010.
Install Qt with VTK
Of course, after this you got to install Qt creator which is better than Visual Studio to work with Qt.
The Qt creator can open CMakeLists.txt as a project. But when I opened the project in Qt Creator, how to save it to a .pro file for the next time?
QMake and CMake are two different build systems, there's no fool-proof conversion between them that could be done automatically. There are some helper tools for QMake to CMake, but they don't guarantee a fully working result. I am not aware of any automatic conversion from CMake to QMake. (Usually one converts from QMake to CMake, as CMake is vastly more powerful; although the CMake support in Qt Creator isn't that good, unfortunately).
I'd suggest to stick with CMake.