[Interest] Qt5 Cross Compiling on Linux For Windows

[Jonathan Greig]

Thanks Mark, I sent an email to the MXE list.


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Mark Brand <mabrand at mabrand.nl> wrote:

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> On 03/07/2014 12:40 AM, Jonathan Greig wrote:
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>> I've used MXE several times in the past even before it was called MXE. I
>> must have really bad luck, because any time I have ever used the master
>> ends up in disaster. Mark, Since I know your involved with MXE more than
>> most, is there an estimate on when the shared lib support will make it into
>> the stable branch or is it too early to tell?
>>
>> I noticed it was subsumed into the win32-g++ mkspec but the note suggests
>> you need to build Qt5 from source, which I would like to avoid if possible
>> because that lengthens the build process considerably. I'm on Kubuntu 13.10
>> and using the .deb packages(which I'm assuming are bootstrapped from
>> Debian) previously tried using -spec win32-g++ without much luck. If I can
>> get it working reliably on my machine, there's little reason why it
>> wouldn't work on Travis-CI. Are the Debian packages not configured for
>> cross-compiling?
>>
>
> MXE builds everything from source, but it's painless and fast. It will
> build all packages from gcc through all the Qt 5 modules during your coffee
> break.
>
> It's probably best to ask on the MXE list about shared libraries and the
> stable branch. Many people use the master branch successfully, at least as
> a base for their own private fork.
>
> I have haven't tried it any other way than with MXE for a long time so I
> can't say much about Travis-CI or the Debian packages. If you look at how
> the Qt configure script is invoked in MXE, that might give you some ideas.
>
>
>
> On 03/07/2014 01:21 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
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>> Reusing the Qt build tools for different Qt builds is unsupported. So,
>> officially, you need to get a qmake binary for Linux for that
>> cross-compilation
>> environment, along with moc, uic, rcc, etc.
>>
>> So you don't need to compile Qt 5 from sources. Provided someone else
>> already
>> has.
>>
>
> The Qt utilities qmake, moc, uic, rcc, etc are included in the MXE build,
> not reused from whatever is already installed on the machine.
>
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