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Jiddoo
Jiddoo

Reputation: 1111

Problems using Qt with meson on Mac

I stumbled across the build system meson ( http://mesonbuild.com/ ) which attracted me due to its simplicity and native Qt support.

However, when I followed the tutorial I got the error message

Build type: native build
Project name: qt5 demo
Native cpp compiler: c++ (clang 8.1.0)
Build machine cpu family: x86_64
Build machine cpu: x86_64
Found pkg-config: /usr/local/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2)
Dependency QtWidgets found: NO

Meson encountered an error in file meson.build, line 3, column 0:
Qt5 native dependency not found (checked pkg-config, qmake-qt5, and qmake)

which is weird because when I use Qt Creator I can create, compile, and execute Qt projects easily. I am using MacOS Sierra. Can I somehow tell meson where qmake is located?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 805

Answers (1)

Jiddoo
Jiddoo

Reputation: 1111

Ok, I fixed this issue by adding 

export PATH="<path to qmake>":$PATH

to my .bash_profile file, where is the path to the folder containing the qt binaries, such as qmake.

Upvotes: 2

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