[Interest] qmake exclude modules

[Phil Hannent]

On 18 September 2013 11:28, Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu.chd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Will webkit work w/o network?
>
> I think it depends on the network module. Same might be true for other
> modules, but I'm not sure.
>
> HTH,
> -mandeep
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Phil Hannent <phil at hannent.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to remove some Qt modules that I don't need at the moment,
>> however qmake isn't outputting a Makefile with the expected syntax. In
>> my .pro file I have:
>>
>> QT += core gui webkit
>>
>> greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4) {
>>     message("Using QT5")
>>     QT += widgets
>>     QT += webkitwidgets
>>     QT -= printsupport
>>     QT -= sensors
>>     QT -= qml
>>     QT -= opengl
>>     QT -= quick
>>     QT -= network
>>     QT -= multimedia
>>     QT -= multimediawidgets
>> }
>>
>> CONFIG   = qt warn_on debug_and_release
>>
>> So I am expecting things like QtSensors not to be in the includes or
>> LIBS of the Makefile.Release however they are there. Is there some
>> sort of dependency with webkit that drags in the other modules?
Ok, so I went digging into qt_lib_webkit.pri file and found:

QT.webkit.depends = core gui network

and then:

QT.webkit.run_depends = sensors qml quick sql core gui multimedia

That's really strange, why would the two be different and why would
qml and quick be required?

Regards
Phil Hannent