Resources/guides for assisting with development

[William Adams]

Managed to get QT Designer installed/running by way of pyside6, but when I open:

...\GitHub\pythonscad\src\gui\MainWindow.ui

it complains that resources\common.qrc isn't available --- there is a resources\common.qrc.in file...

Is there a good/up-to-date book on QT6 development which I should read?

William

[John David]

I was never able to get Qt6 working.  I just used Qt5.

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[Guenther Sohler]

The files are equivalent. You can rename for your purpose

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[nomike Postmann]

The .in files are templates which get rendered by CMake during the build process.
So the most accurate way would be to configure the build (e.g. `cmake -B build`) and then building the application (`cmake --build build -j$(nproc)` on Linux. If you're on Windows you can just replace `$(nproc)` by the number of CPU cores you have. This is not necessary, but it speeds up the build quite a lot.

Once the application is build (and most likely even if the build fails as this file should be processed very early on), you will find the rendered file in `./resources/common.qrc`.

BTW: I'm interested in the issues you've got with qt6. What platform are you using? What issue do you have?

nomike

On Tuesday, March 10, 2026 at 5:12:17 PM UTC+1 guenthe...@gmail.com wrote:

The files are equivalent. You can rename for your purpose

Am Dienstag, 10. März 2026 schrieb William Adams <william.fra...@gmail.com>:

Managed to get QT Designer installed/running by way of pyside6, but when I open:

...\GitHub\pythonscad\src\gui\MainWindow.ui

it complains that resources\common.qrc isn't available --- there is a resources\common.qrc.in file...

Is there a good/up-to-date book on QT6 development which I should read?

William

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[John David]

I am on travel, and my OS is requiring a full version update.  I'll give Qt6 another try once I update to Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS.  I have been putting it off until I returned home (where I have my emergency backups, etc.)  I might give it a go sooner, but if it goes sideways it will be a nightmare...

I am currently running Pop!_OS 24.02 (on a System76 -- a Linux bare metal laptop).  I have had enough issues with running Pop!_OS! (an Ubuntu derivative), that I am seriously considering going back to Gentoo (which I ran on all my machines for ~20 years)...

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[John David]

Right.  If I have not followup on this in say a couple of weeks.  Might help to give me a poke ans see where I am at.