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Undefined symbols for QCompare

When building a test with QTestLib, I get an "undefined symbols" error for a qCompare function: 

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "__ZN5QTest8qCompareIimEEbRKT_RKT0_PKcS8_S8_i", referenced from:
      __ZN15MyTestClass22myTestFunctionEv in MyTestClass.o
Solution

  • You can decipher the mangled symbol by passing it through c++filt in a shell command: 

    echo __ZN5QTest8qCompareIimEEbRKT_RKT0_PKcS8_S8_i | c++filt

    ... which prints a C++ function signature like this: 

    bool QTest::qCompare<int, unsigned long>(int const&, unsigned long const&, char const*, char const*, char const*, int)

    The two arguments to the QCOMPARE macro — i.e., the two template arguments to the qCompare function — must have exactly the same type. You get an error, for example, if one is an int and the other is a size_t.