[Interest] Problem configuring Qt 5 on Windows

[andy fillebrown]

... and configure -help should be updated.  The -fast option should be
removed if it doesn't do anything, and the module list for the -nomake
flag is not showing all the possible modules that can be skipped.

~ af


On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:06 PM, andy fillebrown
<andy.fillebrown at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Koehne Kai <Kai.Koehne at digia.com> wrote:
>>> On quinta-feira, 20 de dezembro de 2012 12.19.51, Koehne Kai wrote:
>>>>  - run e.g. configure -desktop opengl -nomake examples -nomake tests from
>>>> top level directory (not inside qtbase!)
>>>
>>> Huh? Running from qtbase needs to work. The top-level configure.bat runs the
>>> configure Perl script which simply runs the qtbase configure anyway.
>>
>> It does work, just that you then have to run the right qmake yourself, preferably without '-r' :)
>>
>> Just running configure on top level + make is bullet proof.
>
> I'm assuming you mean it's bullet proof when using the .zip file.  It
> is not working when using the .tar.gz, and it is an easy fix.  Just
> remove the line in qtbase/configure.bat that is looking for
> .gitignore.
>
> Also, the -no-opengl configure option is causing issues for dependent
> modules.  Those modules should be skipped when -no-opengl is used.  I
> would also add a note somewhere in the README about having to use
> -opengl desktop.  The warning that gets output during configure is
> fine, so it's not a big deal, but it was a little confusing.  When I
> was first reading the warning my initial thought was "Oh no, I have to
> install the DirectX SDK to get the ANGLE layer to get the OpenGL
> module to build.  Thankfully, this was not the case.  IMHO, configure
> should just default to -opengl desktop when the DirectX SDK is not
> present.
>
> Cheers,
> ~ af