Question

I’m still a newbie at this so please bear with me 🙂

I just got a vs 2008 project that has a few qt includes, namely qtGUI. Now I downloaded the open source pre-built libraries (version 4.8.3) from the qt-project.org site. I’ve added the include and lib directories under vs2008, but my project still won’t compile. I’m getting a few LNK 2001 unresolved external symbol errors. Could someone tell me what I’m missing here?

The specific errors:

treeview.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public:static struct QMetaObject const    cQtTreeWidgetFilter::staticMetaObject"(?staticMetaObject@cQtTreeWidgetFilter@@2UQMetaObject@@B)
treeview.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public:virtual struct QMetaObject const * __thiscall    cQtTreeWidgetFilter::metaObject(void)const "    (?metaObject@cQtTreeWidgetFilter@@UBEPBUQMetaObject@@XZ)
treeview.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public:virtual void * __thiscall cQtTreeWidgetFilter::qt_metacast(char const    *)" (?qt_metacast@cQtTreeWidgetFilter@@UAEPAXPBD@Z)
treeview.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: virtual int    __thiscall cQtTreeWidgetFilter::qt_metacall(enum QMetaObject::Call,int,void * *)"    (?qt_metacall@cQtTreeWidgetFilter@@UAEHW4Call@QMetaObject@@HPAPAX@Z)

Answer 1

After days of trouble I found a reference in the sdk suggesting that I should downgrade qt to a previous version. I went and downloaded 4.6.2 and now it generates the moc file and compiles without error.

Thanks for the help dreschjerm.