works on Windows?

[Buzzroid]

Does qdep works on Windows? I've failed to build QtAutoUpdater on Windows, which uses "QDEP_DEPENDS += Skycoder42/QExceptionBase@1.0.0"

Errors: LINK : fatal error LNK1104: '.obj\debug\qexceptionbase.obj'

[Skycoder42]

It does work on windows. As you can see on Appveyor, I have working builds for all the MSVC2017 Kits, Mingw and MSVC2015 x64.

I also have a Windows 10 Machine where I test stuff, and I can build QtAutoUpdater (and other qdep dependend projects) there without problems.

Please check/do the following things for me, so I can narrow down the problem:

• Check you are using the latest version of qdep (qdep --version should report 1.0.1)
• Which Qt-Version and Kit/Compiler are you using. Was Qt installed via the online/offline installers, or do you use a custom compiled Qt
  • In case of a custom compiled Qt: Please post the configuration you used to build it here. (Upload the qconfig.pri and qmodule.pri files you can find in the mkspecs directory, or post your configure.bat command line.
• Upload (as attached file) the full build log, not only the error line.
• Upload the Makefile and Makefile.Debug files that qmake generated in the build folder. I only need the ones for the actual library, i.e. src\autoupdatercore\Makefile[.Debug]

Thank you for your cooperation. qdep is quite new and thus a few bugs are sadly to be expected. I am however eager to fix them and will try to solve this problem as quickly as possible.

[Buzzroid]

A space character in the path (user name) caused an error for python, which in turn caused an error for qdep.

common.py @ qdep `def get_cache_dir_default(): return appdirs.user_cache_dir("qdep")

def get_cache_dir(pkg_url, pkg_branch): cache_dir = os.getenv("QDEP_CACHE_DIR", get_cache_dir_default()) cache_dir = path.join(cache_dir, hashlib.sha3_256(pkg_url.encode("UTF-8")).hexdigest(), pkg_branch) os.makedirs(cache_dir, exist_ok=True) return cache_dir ` appdirs does not quote for a space-contained path, which causes the trouble. I've set QDEP_CACHE_DIR to a path which does not contain space character. Now everything works fine.

So, I think that this is not the bug of qdep. Just mentioning QDEP_CACHE_DIR in the doc would be helpful for us.

Thank you for the great work.

[Buzzroid]

Or, Escaping (Quoting) the path returned from appdirs would be appreciated.

[Skycoder42]

Thanks for the details. I will definitely look into this and try to apply proper quoting everywhere. It's not directly a bug of qdep, but something I should still take care of.

And BTW, the environment variables are mention in the readme, as part of the "Documentation" chapter. See Environment variables