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    copied!<p>I'm trying to get Qt to work with Visual Studio 2010. I've built a working program that I can run in the debugger. However, when I try to add the Q_OBJECT macro to my class, it generates a bunch of linker errors.</p> <pre><code>1&gt;------ Build started: Project: qt_poop, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ 1&gt;Build started 2012/08/05 12:58:56. 1&gt;InitializeBuildStatus: 1&gt; Creating "Debug\qt_poop.unsuccessfulbuild" because "AlwaysCreate" was specified. 1&gt;ClCompile: 1&gt; GLViewer.cpp 1&gt; Window.cpp 1&gt; main.cpp 1&gt; Generating Code... 1&gt;Link: 1&gt; LINK : c:\Users\abral\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\qt_poop\Win32\Debug\\qt_poop.exe not found or not built by the last incremental link; performing full link 1&gt;GLViewer.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: virtual struct QMetaObject const * __thiscall GLViewer::metaObject(void)const " (?metaObject@GLViewer@@UBEPBUQMetaObject@@XZ) 1&gt;GLViewer.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: virtual void * __thiscall GLViewer::qt_metacast(char const *)" (?qt_metacast@GLViewer@@UAEPAXPBD@Z) 1&gt;GLViewer.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: virtual int __thiscall GLViewer::qt_metacall(enum QMetaObject::Call,int,void * *)" (?qt_metacall@GLViewer@@UAEHW4Call@QMetaObject@@HPAPAX@Z) 1&gt;c:\Users\abral\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\qt_poop\Win32\Debug\\qt_poop.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 3 unresolved externals 1&gt; 1&gt;Build FAILED. 1&gt; 1&gt;Time Elapsed 00:00:07.50 ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ========== </code></pre> <p>I've seen some similar problems raised by others and it seems to have something to do with the compiler and moc and a bunch of other really complicated technical stuff that my beginner brain can't quite comprehend yet. Also, a lot of it seems geared towards people who are using a command line to configure their compilers, but I'm using VS and I'd really like to keep it that way (basically I just want to be able to press the green arrow and see my program - that's all). So... if someone could explain to me in as simple a way as possible how to configure Visual Studio to do whatever linking or compiling or whatnot that it needs to do to accomplish this, I'll be eternally grateful.</p>
 

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