[Interest] Problem configuring Qt 5 on Windows

[Koehne Kai]

> Subject: Re: [Interest] Problem configuring Qt 5 on Windows
>
> I am running the following command from the top level directory after
> commenting out line 45 in qtbase/configure ...

I assume you meant configure.bat

> echo y | configure ^
> -opensource ^
> -fast ^
> -platform win32-g++ ^
> -dont-process ^
> -opengl desktop ^
> -nomake tests ^
> -nomake tools ^
> -nomake examples ^
> -nomake demos ^
> -nomake translations
>

There are no separate demos any more, so that's superfluous.  Anyway, that doesn't do any harm.

Actually you should be fine with just

configure -opensource -opengl desktop -nomake tests -nomake examples -nomake translations

I haven't used "-fast" and "-dont-process" myself, maybe that one causes problems.

>I then run qmake on the qtsdk.pro with the following command ...
>
> qtbase\bin\qmake.exe ^
> -r ^
> -Wnone ^
> qtsdk.pro ^
> CONFIG*=silent ^
> -after ^
> CONFIG*=warn_off

You don't have to run qmake on your own (and you shouldn't). Just run mingw32-make / jom.

> Note that these are simplified versions of the commands.  I'm actually
> doing shadow builds but that doesn't look like it's a problem.

> Also note that the Qt4 qmake step would generate makefiles for the
> examples, too, but I didn't mind because there weren't that many and
> they didn't get built during make.  With Qt5 all the tests are having
> makefiles generated, too.  I haven't gotten far enough into the make
> step to know if they're actually going to be compiled or not, but I'm
> assuming they will follow the same behavior in Qt4 and they won't be
> built.
>
> If you really think using the .zip file will make a difference then
> I'll try it, but I'm pretty sure I'll get the same results.  Qmake
> will still generate a makefile for everything, regardless of what I
> specify in the configure step.

Agreed, the .zip file just contains the configure.exe you've been missing. Anyhow, may I suggest starting with the known and tried process in README before refining it ?

Regards

Kai

PS: jom also works fine with MinGW, so this is a great way to speed up compilation.