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qmake not generating binary resource files

Specs: Qt Creator 2.5.1, Qt 4.7.4(32bit)

It is my understanding from the Qt documentation that including a resource (.qrc) in the .pro file of Qt is all that is required to get qmake to generate the correct qrc_*.cpp files. That doesn't seem to be the case for my project. When running qmake the makes files are created and there are references to the qrc_ file I'm looking for under compiler_rcc_clean, just not in the build chain.

[Update] At a suggestion from comments below the makefile generated by qmake was tested directly w/ NMAKE. The correct qrc_filter_ao.cpp file was created. However the IDE still fails to properly generate this file when I build from Qt Creator.

.pro:

include (../../shared.pri)

TARGET = filter_ao
QT += opengl

HEADERS += ./filter_ao.h
SOURCES += ./filter_ao.cpp

RESOURCES += \
    filter_ao.qrc

shared.pri

include (./general.pri)
VCGDIR = ../$$VCGDIR
TEMPLATE      = lib
CONFIG       += plugin
CONFIG       += resources
QT += opengl
QT += xml
QT += xmlpatterns
QT += script

win32-msvc2008:  LIBS += ../../distrib/common.lib
win32-msvc2008:DEFINES += GLEW_STATIC _USE_MATH_DEFINES

INCLUDEPATH  *= ../.. $$VCGDIR ../$$GLEWDIR/include
DEPENDPATH += ../.. $$VCGDIR

win32-msvc2008:DEFINES  += _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
CONFIG(release,debug | release){
  # Uncomment the following line to disable assert in mingw
  #DEFINES += NDEBUG
}

DESTDIR       = ../../distrib/plugins
contains(TEMPLATE,lib) {
  CONFIG(debug, debug|release) {
     unix:TARGET = $$member(TARGET, 0)_debug
     else:TARGET = $$member(TARGET, 0)d
  }
}
win32-msvc2008: RCC_DIR = $(ConfigurationName)

general.pri

 VCGDIR = ../../../vcglib
 GLEWDIR = ../external/glew-1.7.0
 win32:DEFINES += NOMINMAX
Solution

  • I think @Pie_Jesu is correct. I have set up a directory structure with the files from the OP, and imported the .pro file into QtCreator. I have removed the "win32-msvc2008: " prefix from the line which sets RCC_DIR since I am using VS Express 2010. Result was that I get a message like "Unable to open \qrc_filter_ao.cpp for writing: Access denied" and no qrc_file is being created. I then set the line to /TEMP:

    RCC_DIR = /TEMP

    Result is that I find the qrc_ file below \TEMP.