[Development] Problems compiling QtWebEngine in 5.8.0 beta

[Kai Koehne]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Development [mailto:development-bounces+kai.koehne=qt.io at qt-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Egor Pugin
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2016 10:55 PM
> To: Harald Vistnes <harald.vistnes at gmail.com>
> Cc: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Problems compiling QtWebEngine in 5.8.0 beta
> 
> Probably file path is too long.
> MS improved situation since win10.1607 (up to 32k symbols) but almost
> every program today (even from MS) is not able to handle such paths.
> They require special handling.
> See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
> us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx
> for more info.

Sigh. We've been tweaking webengine already in the past to use relative paths,
but it  seems we didn't succeed everywhere.

Yeah, please make sure that the checkout path for qtwebengine is not too deep.

Reggards

Kai


> I had same issues with cmake+msbuild invocations.
> 
> On 9 November 2016 at 23:46, Harald Vistnes <harald.vistnes at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having problems compiling 5.8.0 beta from source. It fails when
> > making qtwebengine.
> >
> >
> > D:\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.8.0-
> beta\qtwebengine\src\3rdparty\ni
> > nja\ninja.exe
> > -C
> > D:/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.8.0-
> beta/qtwebengine/src/core/Releas
> > e_x64
> > ninja: Entering directory
> > `D:/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.8.0-
> beta/qtwebengine/src/core/Release_x64'
> > ninja: error:
> >
> WriteFile(obj\src\3rdparty\chromium\third_party\WebKit\Source\core\gen
> \blink\bindings\core\v8\webcore_generated.HTMLImageElementOrHTMLVi
> deoElementOrHTMLCanvasElementOrBlobOrImageDataOrImageBitmap.obj.
> rsp):
> > Unable to create file. No such file or directory
> >
> > ninja: build stopped: .
> > NMAKE : fatal error U1077:
> > 'D:\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.8.0-
> beta\qtwebengine\src\3rdparty\ninja\ninja.exe'
> > : return code '0x1'
> > Stop.
> > NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
> > Studio 14.0\VC\BIN\amd64\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
> > Stop.
> > NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '(' : return code '0x2'
> > Stop.
> > NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
> > Stop.
> > NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
> > Stop.
> > NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
> > Stop.
> >
> > Environment:
> > Windows 10
> > VS2015 x64
> > Windows 10 SDK
> > ninja
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Harald
> >
> >
> >
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