QtCreator No Executable Specified

c++ qt executable qt-creator

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Solution 1

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by having a QtCreator project and running it in Eclipse or running it as a Qt App but if you are looking for an exe file, QtCreator is probably configured to do shadow builds for your project. This means that build output is sent to a directory outside of your project source directory. If your project is in a directory called MyApp, then look for a directory beside it called MyApp-build-desktop. You should find your executable in there.

Solution 2

Are you still struggling with the solution ? The most easy solution is, restore default setting by deleting file QtCreator.ini. After that configure project once again by giving build directory path. If you are working on Linux system, run following command to find QtCreator.ini file.

$ locate QtCreator.ini

It will give ouput like this

/home/tan/.config/QtProject/QtCreator.ini

Then delete the file on obtained path using following command

$ sudo rm -f  /home/tan/.config/QtProject/QtCreator.ini

Now open project once again and configure with your desired build and run settings.

Upvote if above solution helps you. Btw if I've made any grammatical mistakes, I am sorry for my english. :)

Best luck !!

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Updated on September 01, 2022

Comments

Jon Egeland over 1 year

I've searched this for a while and haven't found anything answered anywhere:

I have a project in QtCreator that has no compilation errors, and runs fine as a normal C++ project in Eclipse.

However, when I try to run it as a Qt app, it says it could not find an executable and I need to specify one.

As many other sites have suggested, I have searched the directories for the .exe that QtCreator was supposed to make (according to the other sites), but I am yet to find anything.

I'm in no rush, but have spent a long time on this and would like to move on to actually writing the Qt part.

Thanks in advance.
- laurent over 12 years
  
  Your question cannot be answered. You need to provide the error messages and specific details about your problem.
- David Feurle over 12 years
  
  Have you checked which executable is to be executed in the project settings of QtCreator?
- David Feurle over 12 years
  
  I had this as well on old installs of qt when defining QT environment variables. After removing these qtcreator worked as expected.
- Jon Egeland over 12 years
  
  @Laurent - That's the exact wording of the dialog that pops up. @DavidFeurle - There is no .exe specified, and it does not seem to be making one for me.