how to get qt4 for a cmake build

Question

I'm trying to build the latest sources of keepassX on OS X which I have found here: http://gitorious.org/keepassx .

I'm getting this error message complaining about a missing Qt4 library:

ernst@cnap-b13-01 ~/Temp/keepassx/build
[264] : cmake [-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local] [-DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON] [-DWITH_GUI_TESTS=ON] ..
CMake Error at /Applications/CMake 2.8-7.app/Contents/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:91 (MESSAGE):
  Could NOT find Qt4 (missing: QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE QT_MOC_EXECUTABLE
  QT_RCC_EXECUTABLE QT_INCLUDE_DIR QT_LIBRARY_DIR QT_QTCORE_INCLUDE_DIR
  QT_QTCORE_LIBRARY QT_QTGUI_INCLUDE_DIR QT_QTGUI_LIBRARY
  QT_QTTEST_INCLUDE_DIR QT_QTTEST_LIBRARY QT_UIC_EXECUTABLE) (Required is at
  least version "4.6.0")
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /Applications/CMake 2.8-7.app/Contents/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:252 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  /Applications/CMake 2.8-7.app/Contents/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindQt4.cmake:1171 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
  CMakeLists.txt:68 (find_package)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

Any ideas on how to get this compiling?

I'm sure it is not installed, download it [here](http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/) and install it :^) ! — Mathieu Marache, Jan 27 '12 at 17:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

I was able to solve this by installing the Qt SDK using the Mac OS X online installer and passing -DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE=~/QtSDK/Desktop/Qt/4.8.1/gcc/bin/qmake to cmake.

Note that as the /Developer directory is no longer there with XCode 4.3 I also had to do sudo ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer /Developer in order for keepassx to find some header files and compile successfully.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 27 '12 at 01:21

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If Qt4 is installed in your system set QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE to the path for the qmake binary. You can do that in cmake-gui or ccmake. Or even with the -D parameter to cmake.

answered Jan 27 '12 at 01:21

drescherjm

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score -1 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 15 '13 at 19:42

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Use the option -no-framework when configuring qt:

./configure -no-framework -static -prefix ~/Libraries/qt-installed

edited Nov 15 '13 at 19:42

Garrett Hyde

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answered Nov 15 '13 at 19:18

Francois

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how to get qt4 for a cmake build

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