[Development] Failed to run configure.bat in qt/qt5 repository on Windows?

[Haowei Hsu]

Hello, Edward.

These instructions do not appear in README.md; it contains, for example,
> no mention of vcvarsall.bat and its instructions for updating quite
> explicitly mention running init-repository.  See README.git for the
> details of how to clone and set up an initial checkout of Qt.  Note that
> it does not use --recursive to git clone; init-repository takes care of
> the recursing into submodules.


The reason why I run *vcvarsall.bat* is to let CMake find MSVC compilers.

As for *init-repository*, I didn't see its instructions in README.md
<https://github.com/qt/qt5/tree/dev>. Where is it?

---
Haowei Hsu

Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne at qt.io> 於 2023年8月14日 週一 下午5:50寫道：

> Haowei Hsu (13 August 2023 14:08) wrote:
> > Recently, I tried to configure the qt/qt5<https://github.com/qt/qt5>
> > repository. The following commands are what I use to configure the
> > project according to its README.md:
> >
> >   1.  git clone --recursive https://github.com/qt/qt5.git
> >   2.  chdir qt5
> >   3.  git status
> >   4.  git checkout v6.5.2
> >   5.  git submodule update --recursive
> >   6.  vcvarsall.bat x64
> >   7.  configure.bat
>
> These instructions do not appear in README.md; it contains, for example,
> no mention of vcvarsall.bat and its instructions for updating quite
> explicitly mention running init-repository.  See README.git for the
> details of how to clone and set up an initial checkout of Qt.  Note that
> it does not use --recursive to git clone; init-repository takes care of
> the recursing into submodules.
>
> > However, it turns out that there are some errors occurred.
> > What do I miss? How to fix these errors?
>
> Follow the actual instructions in README.git and README.md5 - and please
> report any problems you have then, as those would imply we need to
> update these files.
>
> > NOTE: Currently, I just want to build Qt's Documentation instead of the
> > whole Qt's artifacts.
>
> That will involve building at least QDoc, hence at least QtCore, so
> you'll get some artifacts, but indeed you won't need all.  After you run
> configure, ninja -t targets will list all possible targets; search that
> for ones containig "doc" and you should find one suitable.
>
>         Eddy.
>
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