[Development] The sorry state of the Qt6 cross compile experience

[Joerg Bornemann]

On 2/24/21 9:30 AM, Bogdan Vatra wrote:

> Do you still believe that I'm one of the few affected by this?
> Don't you think that everyone who's using cross compiling is affected?

I have seen cross-compiling folks using the cross-platform abilities of 
Qt to prototype stuff on desktop. The assumption is: most people want to 
have a full desktop Qt anyways.

You're especially affected because of your focus on Android.
That's all I'm saying.

> It's a good thing when is done right, check the numbers above. Right now is
> broken, there is no way to install only the host tools. As long as the bug
> report has a P2 priority, I'll not hold my breath to see it fixed any time
> soon, for sure not in 6.1 or in 6.2....

You'll be delighted to learn that the priority is at P3.
You could put energy into explaining why this is especially important to 
you and many others. But please, it's your call to continue rambling on 
aimlessly instead.

I suggest to create a bug report about the hard-coded paths, explain 
what's wrong. You know the game.

Regarding multi-ABI, there's QTBUG-80943 that tracks this.


Cheers,

Joerg