[Development] Qt Static Package
Khuram Ali
khuram.ali at aim.com
Tue May 14 22:05:22 CEST 2019
Thank you very much Carlos for the detailed analysis. I have reached on similar conclusion after building Qt statically both on Windows and Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04. However, in most cases, Qt applications are good by dynamic linking on Linux but there are some use cases, where hanging around with a bunch of dynamically linked libraries is not so nice. a well defined and documented static build process will be certainly appreciated, if possible.
Regards,Khuram Ali
----- Original Release -----
From: Carlos Enrique Pérez Sánchez <ceperez1996 at gmail.com>
An: development <development at qt-project.org>; Mitch Curtis <mitch.curtis at qt.io>; Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
Posted: Tue, May 14, 2019 20:58
Subject: Re: [Development] Qt Static Package
Hello again!
I have some news concerning static builds.
Let's start with WINDOWS:
Note: Windows 10
I finally manage to build Qt for Windows statically. Even Qt Quick Controls 2 module was successfully built. The problem was (as pointed by Thiago Maicera) the -qt-[...] bounded libraries. I use the default options and it worked better than I expected.
I build Qt for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.
I installed:
Strawberry Perl 5.28.1.1
Python 2.7.14
DirectX SDK as provided by Microsoft
Strawberry Perl and Python added the appropriate folders to the PATH environment variable: C:\Strawberry\c\bin, C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin, C:\Strawberry\perl\bin, C:\Python27\ and C:\Python27\Scripts. For the DirectX SDK, I added the install path and the following folders: Include, Libs/x86 and Utilities/bin/x86. Add the x64 folder instead of x86 if you are targeting a 64-bit build.
The configure command line:
$ configure -prefix "X:/somePath/QtStatic" -static -static-runtime -release -opensource -confirm-license -nomake tools -nomake examples -nomake tests -skip qtwebengine -silent
There is no need to patch the qmake.conf file in your mkspec (as people says) if you pass -static-runtime command line option to configure.
I use Qt Quick 2 Gallery Example as the test case, and in order to ensure that the resulting application does not have any dependencies with the Qt libraries, I installed a UNIX environment on Windows (by installing git) and use the ldd tool.
For a 32-bit build, its output was:
ntdll.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll (0x7ffc685f0000)
??? => ??? (0x77400000)
wow64.dll => /c/Windows/System32/wow64.dll (0x7ffc658d0000)
wow64win.dll => /c/Windows/System32/wow64win.dll (0x7ffc68540000)
Which is OK. No dependencies with Qt libraries.
For a 64-bit build, the output is a lot larger, but still it does not depends of Qt libraries:
ntdll.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll (0x7ff8ee110000)
KERNEL32.DLL => /c/Windows/System32/KERNEL32.DLL (0x7ff8ec740000)
KERNELBASE.dll => /c/Windows/System32/KERNELBASE.dll (0x7ff8ea360000)
ADVAPI32.dll => /c/Windows/System32/ADVAPI32.dll (0x7ff8ec860000)
msvcrt.dll => /c/Windows/System32/msvcrt.dll (0x7ff8ec570000)
sechost.dll => /c/Windows/System32/sechost.dll (0x7ff8ec4c0000)
RPCRT4.dll => /c/Windows/System32/RPCRT4.dll (0x7ff8ec610000)
GDI32.dll => /c/Windows/System32/GDI32.dll (0x7ff8ec410000)
gdi32full.dll => /c/Windows/System32/gdi32full.dll (0x7ff8ea650000)
msvcp_win.dll => /c/Windows/System32/msvcp_win.dll (0x7ff8ea7f0000)
d3d9.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/d3d9.dll (0x7ff8caa50000)
ucrtbase.dll => /c/Windows/System32/ucrtbase.dll (0x7ff8ea1e0000)
USER32.dll => /c/Windows/System32/USER32.dll (0x7ff8edf40000)
??? => ??? (0x30f0000)
win32u.dll => /c/Windows/System32/win32u.dll (0x7ff8ea630000)
??? => ??? (0x140000)
IMM32.dll => /c/Windows/System32/IMM32.dll (0x7ff8eb6f0000)
SHELL32.dll => /c/Windows/System32/SHELL32.dll (0x7ff8ec910000)
dxva2.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/dxva2.dll (0x7ff8d0ea0000)
cfgmgr32.dll => /c/Windows/System32/cfgmgr32.dll (0x7ff8ea890000)
combase.dll => /c/Windows/System32/combase.dll (0x7ff8ec0e0000)
shcore.dll => /c/Windows/System32/shcore.dll (0x7ff8eb590000)
bcryptPrimitives.dll => /c/Windows/System32/bcryptPrimitives.dll (0x7ff8ea8e0000)
windows.storage.dll => /c/Windows/System32/windows.storage.dll (0x7ff8eabf0000)
profapi.dll => /c/Windows/System32/profapi.dll (0x7ff8ea190000)
powrprof.dll => /c/Windows/System32/powrprof.dll (0x7ff8ea110000)
EVR.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/EVR.dll (0x7ff8cb650000)
shlwapi.dll => /c/Windows/System32/shlwapi.dll (0x7ff8ec800000)
bcrypt.dll => /c/Windows/System32/bcrypt.dll (0x7ff8ea600000)
kernel.appcore.dll => /c/Windows/System32/kernel.appcore.dll (0x7ff8ea170000)
cryptsp.dll => /c/Windows/System32/cryptsp.dll (0x7ff8ea340000)
WS2_32.dll => /c/Windows/System32/WS2_32.dll (0x7ff8eb520000)
dwmapi.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/dwmapi.dll (0x7ff8e8b50000)
ole32.dll => /c/Windows/System32/ole32.dll (0x7ff8eb720000)
CRYPT32.dll => /c/Windows/System32/CRYPT32.dll (0x7ff8ea960000)
OLEAUT32.dll => /c/Windows/System32/OLEAUT32.dll (0x7ff8ebf30000)
MSASN1.dll => /c/Windows/System32/MSASN1.dll (0x7ff8ea1c0000)
IPHLPAPI.DLL => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/IPHLPAPI.DLL (0x7ff8e96a0000)
MF.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/MF.dll (0x7ff8c7030000)
NETAPI32.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/NETAPI32.dll (0x7ff8e3520000)
RTWorkQ.DLL => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/RTWorkQ.DLL (0x7ff8e26c0000)
USERENV.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/USERENV.dll (0x7ff8ea010000)
UxTheme.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/UxTheme.dll (0x7ff8e8720000)
VERSION.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/VERSION.dll (0x7ff8e43f0000)
WINMM.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/WINMM.dll (0x7ff8e6ef0000)
WTSAPI32.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/WTSAPI32.dll (0x7ff8e6d20000)
ODBC32.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/ODBC32.dll (0x7ff8c6f70000)
WINMMBASE.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/WINMMBASE.dll (0x7ff8e6ec0000)
??? => ??? (0x140000)
MFPlat.DLL => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/MFPlat.DLL (0x7ff8e26f0000)
DPAPI.DLL => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/DPAPI.DLL (0x7ff8e9540000)
CRYPTBASE.DLL => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/CRYPTBASE.DLL (0x7ff8e9b70000)
MFCORE.DLL => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/MFCORE.DLL (0x7ff8b8230000)
NETUTILS.DLL => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/NETUTILS.DLL (0x7ff8e97b0000)
ksuser.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/ksuser.dll (0x7ff8e6a50000)
SRVCLI.DLL => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/SRVCLI.DLL (0x7ff8e34f0000)
I also tested others applications that use Qt Multimedia and Qt Charts: all OK.
Now on LINUX:
Note: KDE Neon based on Ubuntu 18.04
I installed the OpenGL dependencies mentioned in Qt Help. I also installed python and perl.
My configure command line (almost the same used on Windows):
$ sudo ./configure -prefix "/somePath/Qt5Static" -platform linux-g++-64 -static -release -opensource -confirm-license -nomake tools -nomake examples -nomake tests -skip qtwebengine -silent
The result is an application that does not have appropriate shaders for QQC2 applications, and the ripple effect (Material Style) is broken (see image bellow):The screenshoot shows the application running under the Material Style, but the behavior is present on all styles.Also, the cursor shown is no my desktop theme cursor (mine is black, and it turns white and pixelated when I hover the application)
Output from $ ldd gallery:
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd5bf54000)
libwayland-egl.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-egl.so.1 (0x00007fe21417a000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSM.so.6 (0x00007fe213f72000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libICE.so.6 (0x00007fe213d57000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007fe213b2f000)
libjpeg.so.8 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.8 (0x00007fe2138c7000)
libtiff.so.5 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5 (0x00007fe213650000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fe21344c000)
libdrm.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm.so.2 (0x00007fe21323b000)
libEGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so.1 (0x00007fe213027000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00007fe212de2000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007fe212b2e000)
libdbus-1.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3 (0x00007fe2128e1000)
libwayland-cursor.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-cursor.so.0 (0x00007fe2126d9000)
libwayland-client.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0 (0x00007fe2124ca000)
libxkbcommon.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxkbcommon.so.0 (0x00007fe21228b000)
libpng16.so.16 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007fe212059000)
libharfbuzz.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libharfbuzz.so.0 (0x00007fe211dbb000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fe211b9e000)
libicui18n.so.60 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicui18n.so.60 (0x00007fe2116fd000)
libicuuc.so.60 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicuuc.so.60 (0x00007fe211346000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fe21102f000)
libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 (0x00007fe210da3000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fe210b84000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fe2107fb000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fe21045d000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fe210245000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fe20fe54000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fe215e8f000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fe20fc4d000)
libbsd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0x00007fe20fa38000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x00007fe20f834000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007fe20f62e000)
liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fe20f408000)
libjbig.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjbig.so.0 (0x00007fe20f1fa000)
libGLdispatch.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLdispatch.so.0 (0x00007fe20ef44000)
libexpat.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007fe20ed12000)
libsystemd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007fe20ea8e000)
libffi.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 (0x00007fe20e886000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fe20e67e000)
libgraphite2.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgraphite2.so.3 (0x00007fe20e451000)
libicudata.so.60 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicudata.so.60 (0x00007fe20c8a8000)
libpcre.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 (0x00007fe20c636000)
libGLX.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX.so.0 (0x00007fe20c405000)
liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fe20c1e9000)
libgcrypt.so.20 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 (0x00007fe20bece000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007fe20bb96000)
libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007fe20b981000)
After that, I rebuild Qt using -qt-[...] options:./configure -prefix "/somePath/Qt5Static" -platform linux-g++-64 -static -release -opensource -confirm-license -qt-pcre -qt-zlib -qt-freetype -qt-xcb -qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -qt-sqlite -nomake tools -nomake examples -nomake tests -skip qtwebengine -silent
And the ldd output: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff287f4000)
libwayland-egl.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-egl.so.1 (0x00007f520a62d000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSM.so.6 (0x00007f520a425000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libICE.so.6 (0x00007f520a20a000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f5209fe2000)
libtiff.so.5 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5 (0x00007f5209d6b000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f5209b67000)
libdrm.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm.so.2 (0x00007f5209956000)
libEGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so.1 (0x00007f5209742000)
libdbus-1.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3 (0x00007f52094f5000)
libwayland-cursor.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-cursor.so.0 (0x00007f52092ed000)
libwayland-client.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0 (0x00007f52090de000)
libxkbcommon.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxkbcommon.so.0 (0x00007f5208e9f000)
libharfbuzz.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libharfbuzz.so.0 (0x00007f5208c01000)
libicui18n.so.60 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicui18n.so.60 (0x00007f5208760000)
libicuuc.so.60 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicuuc.so.60 (0x00007f52083a9000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f5208092000)
libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 (0x00007f5207e06000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f5207be7000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f520785e000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f52074c0000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f52072a8000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f5206eb7000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f520c463000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f5206cb0000)
libbsd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0x00007f5206a9b000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f5206897000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f5206691000)
liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f520646b000)
libjbig.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjbig.so.0 (0x00007f520625d000)
libjpeg.so.8 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.8 (0x00007f5205ff5000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f5205dd8000)
libGLdispatch.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLdispatch.so.0 (0x00007f5205b22000)
libsystemd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007f520589e000)
libffi.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 (0x00007f5205696000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f520548e000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f52051da000)
libgraphite2.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgraphite2.so.3 (0x00007f5204fad000)
libicudata.so.60 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicudata.so.60 (0x00007f5203404000)
libpcre.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 (0x00007f5203192000)
libGLX.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX.so.0 (0x00007f5202f61000)
liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f5202d45000)
libgcrypt.so.20 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 (0x00007f5202a2a000)
libpng16.so.16 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007f52027f8000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f52024c0000)
libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007f52022ab000)
Observe that the list is slighty shorter (48 vs 46), but it shows the same issues plus missing fonts. I know that the last can be avoided by passing -fontconfig to configure.
I am missing something here?I installed gstreamer and the rest of libraries mentioned on the Qt Help Center, and also other libraries (and its respective -dev packages) that were shown during the dependencies checking in configure, but some of those libraries are linked dinamically.
Conclusions:Building Qt on Windows is clearly documented and works as expected.Building Qt for Linux is not clearly documented, for example, most users fail to compile Qt for Linux because they not specify the target mkspec platform (which is no needed under Windows). That should be documented. Also, there are too much dependences in the resulting static executable.
El mar., 30 abr. 2019 a las 2:08, Mitch Curtis (<mitch.curtis at qt.io>) escribió:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Hausmann
> Sent: Monday, 29 April 2019 5:58 PM
> To: Mitch Curtis <mitch.curtis at qt.io>
> Cc: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>; development at qt-
> project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Qt Static Package
>
>
> The application is perfectly distributable, but the static libraries are tied to the
> exact compiler binary and therefore not so suitable for sending to other
> people. So it’s all good :)
>
> Simon
Ah, thank you for clarifying!
> On 29. Apr 2019, at 17:47, Mitch Curtis <mitch.curtis at qt.io> wrote:
>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf
> Of
> >> Thiago Macieira
> >> Sent: Monday, 29 April 2019 5:18 PM
> >> To: development at qt-project.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Development] Qt Static Package
> >>
> >>> On Monday, 29 April 2019 00:27:14 PDT Mitch Curtis wrote:
> >>> -static -release -ltcg -opensource -confirm-license -nomake tests
> >>> -nomake examples -silent
> >>
> >> -static -ltcg is most definitely not redistributable. That build is
> >> only usable in your exact machine, and only for so long as you don't
> >> perform a system update.
> >
> > That's a pity. It shaved off 8 mb (19%) of my executable's size.
> >
> > Can you explain why it's not redistributable? I thought the whole point of
> link time code generation was for release builds?
> >
> >> --
> >> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect
> >> - Intel System Software Products
> >>
> >>
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