[Interest] Qt 5 RC 2 problems under OS X

Philippe philwave at gmail.com
Sat Dec 15 13:18:20 CET 2012


Normally you can debug Qt as frameworks (I do for 4.8) but see this:
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-28496

Philippe

On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 04:51:52 -0700
john.clements at axograph.com wrote:

> Is anyone working with Mac OS X / XCode? I'd like to contribute to the 
> Qt 5 project but can't work out how to configure and build qt-everywhere 
> under OS X so that the debugger can step into qt source and search for 
> the bugs I've encountered (see below). The default ./configuration does 
> not permit the XCode debugger to step into qt source after building qt 
> from scratch with default configuration (frameworks).
> 
> Some stale(?) advice on the web suggests that you can step into qt when 
> it's built as dynamic debug libraries instead of frameworks. I've tried 
> rebuilding qt-everywhere after running ./configure  with the 
> -no-frameworks flag, and it 'makes' fine, and I can build then my 
> project with XCode, but on launch I get an 'internal qt' error relating 
> to a missing '.nib' file. Don't know how to remedy this. Am I even on 
> the right track here? Perhaps I need to switch to Creator instead of 
> XCode? Any advice appreciated.
> 
> A related question - is anyone else seeing the following bugs under qt 
> 5 RC 2 / OS X 10.8 that I'm seeing. I've reported them to 
> bugreports.qt-project.org but they've yet to be reviewed and classified 
> by the qt development team. Perhaps they're all caught up in the push to 
> release qt 5? Any suggestions on how to get these problems noticed 
> (assuming that they are real). Also, I'd appreciate some confirmation 
> that it's not just me who's seeing these serious issues...
> 
> activateWindow() does not work (QTBUG-28327)
> QFileDialog::getSaveFileName does not put requested file name into 
> native file dialog (QTBUG-28342)
> QDataStream with version set to Qt_3_3: stream.readRawData( ( char* 
> )array, bytesToRead ) moves the device() forward by more than 
> 'bytesToRead' (QTBUG-28632)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John.
> 
> 
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