Hello, I am trying to build the Qt-based cmake-gui as I want to get started developing for it. I am working on Windows with Visual Studio 17 2022 as my generator and compiler, and I am able to build the base CMake executable just fine.
I have a fresh Qt installed via chocolatey, version 5.15.2. I have Qt5_Dir set to C:/Qt/5.15.2/mingw81_64/lib/cmake/Qt5 as well as Qt5Widgets_Dir, Qt5Core_Dir, Qt5Gui_Dir, and even Qt5WinExtras_Dir set to their appropriate locations. I do not have Qt6 installed, and I even set the variable to force CMake_QT_MAJOR_VERSION to 5 instead of A.
The cmake-gui sources compile perfectly fine, but they fail to link. There are only 6 linker errors, which leads me to believe the executable is at least partially linking. Here is the relevant output from calling cmake --build .:
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cmake.vcxproj -> C:\Users\wbowe\CMake\build\bin\Debug\cmake.exe
CMakeGUIExec.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: static int __cdecl QApplica
tion::exec(void)" (__imp_?exec@QApplication@@SAHXZ) referenced in function "int __cdecl CMakeGUIExec(class CMakeSetupDi
alog *)" (?CMakeGUIExec@@YAHPEAVCMakeSetupDialog@@@Z) [C:\Users\wbowe\CMake\build\Source\QtDialog\cmake-gui.vcxproj]
qrc_CMakeSetup.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "bool __cdecl qRegisterResourceData(int,unsigned char co
nst *,unsigned char const *,unsigned char const *)" (?qRegisterResourceData@@YA_NHPEBE00@Z) referenced in function "int
__cdecl qInitResources_CMakeSetup(void)" (?qInitResources_CMakeSetup@@YAHXZ) [C:\Users\wbowe\CMake\build\Source\QtDial
og\cmake-gui.vcxproj]
qrc_CMakeSetup.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "bool __cdecl qUnregisterResourceData(int,unsigned char
const *,unsigned char const *,unsigned char const *)" (?qUnregisterResourceData@@YA_NHPEBE00@Z) referenced in function
"int __cdecl qCleanupResources_CMakeSetup(void)" (?qCleanupResources_CMakeSetup@@YAHXZ) [C:\Users\wbowe\CMake\build\Sou
rce\QtDialog\cmake-gui.vcxproj]
libqtmain.a(qtmain_win.o) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _Znay referenced in function WinMain [C:\Users\wb
owe\CMake\build\Source\QtDialog\cmake-gui.vcxproj]
libqtmain.a(qtmain_win.o) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _Z5qMainiPPc referenced in function WinMain [C:\U
sers\wbowe\CMake\build\Source\QtDialog\cmake-gui.vcxproj]
libqtmain.a(qtmain_win.o) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _ZdaPv referenced in function WinMain [C:\Users\w
bowe\CMake\build\Source\QtDialog\cmake-gui.vcxproj]
C:\Users\wbowe\CMake\build\bin\Debug\cmake-gui.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 6 unresolved externals [C:\Users\wbowe\CMake\
build\Source\QtDialog\cmake-gui.vcxproj]
cmcldeps.vcxproj -> C:\Users\wbowe\CMake\build\bin\Debug\cmcldeps.exe
cmsys_c.vcxproj -> C:\Users\wbowe\CMake\build\Source\kwsys\Debug\cmsys_c.lib
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Has anyone seen this before - or better yet, is there a tutorial I could follow on building this for Windows? I didn’t see instructions anywhere in the git repo.