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Patrick Waldner

18 Feb, 2020 12:28 AM

Is it possible to build Qt projects with QtMsBuild on Appveyor?
This is what we use to compile it locally with Qt tools for Visual Studio.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 18 Feb, 2020 05:24 AM

   

   Hi Patrick,

   Is there something missing on AppVeyor VM to do that?

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2. 2 Posted by Patrick Waldner on 18 Feb, 2020 07:26 AM

   

   I have to define QtMsBuild in my environment in appveyor.yml and upload/extract those files manually into that folder.

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3. 3 Posted by Patrick Waldner on 20 Feb, 2020 01:43 PM

   

   I had problems when defining QTDIR in appveyor.yml.
   It was set to the short default form "C:\Qt\5.14\msvc2017_64", which is usually just fine in our old project.

   Problem 1:
   When I create a new Qt GUI project in Visual Studio 2019 and try to build that one then the QTDIR (or DefaultQtDirectory) isn't properly resolved.
   https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Megamouse/test/builds/30920377
   I fixed this by using the full path: "C:\Qt\5.14.0\msvc2017_64"

   Problem 2:
   I don't know where to find QtMsbuild on the appveyor image, so I commited it to my testproject for now.

   Problem 3:
   Even though the project builds fine on my visual studio 2019 environment, it still won't build with appveyor:
   https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Megamouse/test/builds/30920474

   Link to my test Project:
   https://github.com/Megamouse/test

   Maybe you can explain how to build that, or fix it on your end?

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