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Asked: 2026-06-04T14:54:01+00:00

I’m trying to set up the Qt Win Migration framework to use Qt in

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I’m trying to set up the Qt Win Migration framework to use Qt in an existing MFC based application. I want to use the framework as a library, so I ran qmake on the qtwinmigrate/buildlib/buildlib.pro file to create a Visual Studio vcxproj project file. I built the framework as a dll/lib and put the headers in a common include directory. In my MFC project, I added the Qt migration framework’s lib as a dependency, included the headers where appropriate and added the code to test the framework. Everything compiles fine, but then I get a linker error:

error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol “public: static struct QMetaObject const QWinWidget::staticMetaObject” (?staticMetaObject@QWinWidget@@2UQMetaObject@@B)

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  1. Editorial Team

    According to this forum post, a preprocessor definition must be added to the MFC project that’s using the Qt Win Migration framework as a library. Simply add

    QT_QTWINMIGRATE_IMPORT

    to the project settings under Properties -> C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definitions.

    For a more in-depth explanation into why this is necessary, see this blog post.

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