[Interest] Confusion regarding Qt 5 build on Windows

[Koehne Kai]

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> From: interest-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org
> [mailto:interest-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf
> Of Mandeep Sandhu
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 9:57 AM
> To: Interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Confusion regarding Qt 5 build on Windows
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> 
> 	Isn't GUI as super-set of the Widgets module? 

No, widgets is a module that depends on gui.

> As in, if I don't want
> GUI, I don't want Widgets too, right? I was expecting both to be disabled.
> What am I missing here?

Nothing, just that the Windows configure is apparently missing a sanity check here, i.e.

https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,77762

> Apparently, I was missing something....the "-no-widgets" option. I think I
> forgot that in the new modularized structure of Qt, widgets is a separate
> module.
> 
> 
> But still, shouldn't the QWidgets headers be generated? Or is "-no-gui" with
> widgets enabled not a valid option?

It's not a valid option. I guess that is sanity checked in the qmake logic somewhere, otherwise the build should've failed much before the autotests :)

Regards

Kai