Getting an error when trying to set application icon for Qt project

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I have a project in Qt that has previously been compiled on other machines and the icon works great.

I am running parallels desktop on my macbook and compiling totally under windows (Qt Creator 3.0.1 for windows, Based on Qt 5.2.1 (MSVC 2010, 32 bit)) and when I try to compile I get the following errors:

error: error: icon.rc: No such file or directory
warning: '-x c' after last input file has no effect
error: fatal error: no input files

Everything else works fine and is identical to compiling on other windows based laptops, I don't think using parallels desktop has anything to do with it because even under bootcamp (booting into windows on the mac) it still gives the same error.

My project file contains:

#RC_FILE = icon.rc
#win32:RC_ICONS += icon.ico
win32:RC_FILE += icon.rc

None of these versions work to call the icon file.

My icon.rc file looks like:

IDI_ICON1               ICON    DISCARDABLE     "icon.ico"

The icon.ico and icon.rc are both located in the same folder as all my source code and .pro qt project file.

Any ideas on how to get this working?

I have already had a look at The Qt Icon Documentation and previous posts on the icon topic, none of the suggestions there have worked so far.

Thanks in advance!

asked 19 secs ago

Mitchell D

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Getting an error when trying to set application icon for Qt project