Error: "Must construct a QApplication before a QWidget"

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 24 June 2017 at 21:29, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
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>> On Jun 24, 2017, at 11:16 AM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> i've updated to Qt 5.9.0 today and after building Subsurface on
>> Windows i'm getting a:
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>> QWidget: Must construct a QApplication before a QWidget
>> Invalid parameter passed to C runtime function.
>> Invalid parameter passed to C runtime function.
>>
>> and the app terminates with:
>> "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way."
>>
>> the above error cannot be debugged properly most of the time (e.g. asserts).
>>
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23804238/debugging-qwidget-must-construct-a-qapplication-before-a-qwidget-invalid-par
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>> according the comments in the thread we are probably creating a widget
>> in a header somewhere before the QApplication instance in created.
>>
>> i'm trying to hunt what widget / header is causing that.
>
> Oh joy - this is one of the things I hate the most about C++
> Random things happening in random order that make no sense to me.
> I remember all the cases in which our translations aren't loaded when object are instantiated.
>
> Thanks for hunting this down.
>

looks like this error:
"QWidget: Must construct a QApplication before a QWidget"

is reported the first time a QWebView instance is created.

i've reported an error to the github project from where i've
downloaded these webkit binaries.
so it's probably just an error on my end.

lubomir
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