Re: Compilation failures using qmake + mingw / msvc

Matthias Pospiech wrote:
> Lorenzo Bettini schrieb:
>> Matthias Pospiech wrote:
>>> Lorenzo Bettini schrieb:
>>>> Matthias Pospiech wrote:
>>>>> Lorenzo Bettini schrieb:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> P.S. it looks like building boost with msvc is fully supported: 
>>>>>> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/more/getting_started/windows.html 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> building boost is not a problem, I have a problem to tell qmake 
>>>>> where the include files are, since it does not find them.
>>>>
>>>> you should pass to qmake these options
>>>>
>>>> INCPATH+="/usr/local/include" LIBS+="-L/usr/local/lib -lboost_regex"
>>>>
>>> I am not using linux, so it reads
>>>
>>>    debug:  LIBS += -Llib/boost/regex/mingw/debug 
>>> -lboost_regex-mgw34-mt-d-1_40
>>>    release:LIBS += -Llib/boost/regex/mingw/release 
>>> -lboost_regex-mgw34-mt-1_40
>>>
>>
>> yes, it's the same, I just meant that instead of polluting the .pro 
>> file you can pass these options to qmake at the command line :)
>>
>>> note that I copy the library file to a new location, because the 
>>> compilation destination path of boost is very strange.
>>>
>>> The include is added via
>>>
>>> INCLUDEPATH +=  ../boost_1_40_0
>>>
>>> or the full path. However during compilation the boost library 
>>> headers are not found.
>>
>> you have to put in the INCLUDEPATH (which I usually write as INCPATH, 
>> are you sure it's the same?) the path where the boost subdirectory is.
>>
>> For instance, if regex.hpp is in
>>
>> /my/path/boost_1_40_0/include/boost
>>
>> then you need to specify as include path
>>
>> /my/path/boost_1_40_0/include/
>>
>> since boost header files are included as follows
>>
>> #include <boost/regex.hpp>
>>
>> As for the compilation and installation of boost you can still refer 
>> to that blog post since those flags are for bootstrap and bjam anyway.
>>
> I understand the path-thing. In my case the file regex.hpp is in
> H:\matthias\Documents\Dev\CPP\SVN\library\source\boost_1_40_0\boost
> 
> which is why have set up
> INCLUDEPATH += 
> H:/matthias/Documents/Dev/CPP/SVN/library/source/boost_1_40_0/
> 
> but that does not work. The error in qtcreator is:
> 
> H:/matthias/Documents/Dev/CPP/SVN/library/source/source-highlight-3.1.2/lib/srchilite/substfun.h:13: 
> boost/regex.hpp: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> The compilation output however does not include this path, which I do 
> not understand:
> g++ -c -g -frtti -fexceptions -mthreads -Wall 
> -DABSOLUTEDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/source-highlight/\" 
> -DVERSION=\"3.1.2\" -DLIBRARY_VERSION=\"3.0.0\" 
> -DPACKAGE=\"source-highlight\" 
> -DRELATIVEDATADIR=\"../share/source-highlight\" -DQT_DLL -DQT_GUI_LIB 
> -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT 
> -I'c:/Programme/Qt/SDK/2009.04/qt/include/QtCore' 
> -I'c:/Programme/Qt/SDK/2009.04/qt/include/QtGui' 
> -I'c:/Programme/Qt/SDK/2009.04/qt/include' 
> -I'c:/Programme/Qt/SDK/2009.04/qt/include/ActiveQt' -I'debug' 
> -I'c:/Programme/Qt/SDK/2009.04/qt/mkspecs/win32-g++' -o debug/substfun.o 
> substfun.cpp

have you written INCLUDEPATH in the .pro file?  Or are you passing it to 
qmake at the command line?

Please, also try with INCPATH instead of INCLUDEPATH.

cheers
	Lorenzo

P.S. at least this is not my fault, but qmake's one ;)

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