[Development] Build failure: GUI example being compiled even with -no-gui -no-widgets

[Mandeep Sandhu]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Thiago Macieira
<thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 28 August 2014 17:02:33 Mandeep Sandhu wrote:
>> $ ../qt5/qtbase/configure -opensource -confirm-license
>> -developer-build -release -no-gui -no-widgets -no-cups -no-dbus
>> -no-xcb
>
> -no-gui and -no-widgets are not really supported. We keep them working, but
> please don't report issues if stuff breaks. We'll accept patches though.

But isn't that the whole point modularizing in Qt5? One should be able
to cherry pick the modules they want to build, no?

>
> And examples definitely won't work. Except for a handful of examples, every
> single one of them is a graphical application. If you're passing -no-gui,
> please also pass -nomake examples.

I need the networking related examples to be built, so "no can do"! :P

Hmmph! I was trying to save some build time by disabling stuff that I
don't need. Looks like I'll have to enable gui now! :/

>
> --
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
>
> _______________________________________________
> Development mailing list
> Development at qt-project.org
> http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development