[Interest] Source build on windows

[Sze Howe Koh]

On 11 August 2014 10:05, Darren Dale <dsdale24 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sze-Howe,
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Darren,
>>
>> On 11 August 2014 09:16, Darren Dale <dsdale24 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I'm building from source on windows. Have followed the instructions at
>> > http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/windows-building.html and
>> > http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/windows-requirements.html, installed
>> > runtime
>> > and build dependencies (ICU 53.1, active perl, ruby, python 2.7.8,
>> > certain
>> > they are accessible on PATH), installed the Visual C++ 2010 SP1 and SDK
>> > 7.1
>> > and compiler update, DirectX SDK, but when I attempt to build the
>> > sources
>> > from the single zip qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.3.1.tar.gz, I
>> > eventually
>> > run into an error which others have reported in the past (someone posted
>> > the
>> > error message posted at https://gist.github.com/azbesthu/3699271) as a
>> > missing build dependency in some project file. But the few hits on
>> > google
>> > seem to indicate that the problem has already been resolved. Has anyone
>> > been
>> > successful building from source on windows, including qtwebkit?
>>
>> For Windows, use qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.3.1.zip instead of
>> qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.3.1.tar.gz. The Downloads page
>> (http://qt-project.org/downloads) says, "The source code is also
>> available as a single zip(282 MB) file for Windows users or as tar.gz
>> (227 MB) file for Linux/Mac users."
>>
>> (I believe that's the root cause of your issue -- the rest of this
>> email are just notes)
>
>
> Sorry, I cut and pasted the wrong line. I am using the
> qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.3.1.zip.

Ah, I just noticed the error message you posted from Github.

I haven't built Qt WebKit myself, but I've built the rest of Qt
successfully using instructions from
http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building_Qt_5_from_Git. It contains
detailed instructions for setting up and building Qt WebKit -- have a
look and see if you can find anything new. Just ignore the parts
related to git.

You may need to delete your source tree and re-extract the files to
start fresh, as "make clean" doesn't work.


>> > The bld.bat script I have been using is here:
>> >
>> >
>> > :: may need to change these depending on environment:
>> > CALL "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\SetEnv.cmd" /x64
>> >
>> > set QMAKESPEC=win32-msvc2010
>>
>> You don't need to set QMAKESPEC. The configure script auto-detects
>> your compiler.
>>
>> But if you want to be explicit, I'd use the -platform configure option
>> instead (see http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/configure-options.html)
>
>
> I'll try that, but I'm just following the instructions at
> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/windows-building.html
>
>>
>>
>> > cd C:\Users\darren\qt5
>> >
>> > set SRC_DIR=C:\Users\darren\qt5
>> > set PREFIX=C:\Users\darren\qtlib
>> >
>> > :: set path to find resources shipped with qt-5:
>> > set PATH=%SRC_DIR%\gnuwin32\bin;%PATH%
>> > set PATH=%SRC_DIR%\qtrepotools\bin;%PATH%
>> > set PATH=%SRC_DIR%\qtbase\bin;%PATH%
>>
>> You don't need to add qtbase to your PATH.
>>
>> I don't think you need qtrepotools either -- that contains tools for
>> developing  Qt itself.
>
>
> Ok, thanks.
>
>>
>>
>> > :: make sure we can find ICU:
>> > set INCLUDE=%PREFIX%\include;%INCLUDE%
>> > set LIB=%PREFIX%\libs;%LIB%
>> > set PATH=%PREFIX%\DLLs;%PATH%
>> >
>> > :: this needs to be CALLed due to an exit statement at the end of
>> > configure:
>> > CALL configure -prefix %PREFIX% ^
>> >       -libdir %PREFIX%\lib ^
>> >       -bindir %PREFIX%\lib\qt5\bin ^
>> >       -headerdir %PREFIX%\include\qt5 ^
>> >       -archdatadir %PREFIX%\lib\qt5 ^
>> >       -datadir %PREFIX%\share\qt5 ^
>> >       -opensource ^
>> >       -confirm-license ^
>> >       -no-warnings-are-errors ^
>> >       -nomake examples ^
>> >       -nomake tests ^
>> >       -fontconfig ^
>> >       -qt-libpng ^
>> >       -qt-zlib
>> >
>> > jom
>> > nmake install
>>
>> Why do you mix jom and nmake? (It shouldn't be an issue since jom is
>> designed to be an nmake clone -- I'm just curious)
>
>
>  I read in the qt documentation for os x that "make install" should not be
> done with a -jN due to race conditions. So I just called nmake.