[Interest] Building the latest Qt 5.X

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday 23 January 2015 00:09:57 Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
> Is there a cookbook, for downloading the zip/tarball for Qt 5.X and building
> it?

This is how:

> I have always built on linux, by simply running configure, then make, then
> make install.

Any problems with this?

> For Linux (CentOS 5 and 6) it's a corporate requirement, we build against
> the DEFAULT versions of GCC, 4.1.2 on CentOS 5 I know old as snot, and
> 4.4.7 on CentOS 6.  Unless someone can advise on how to build with a newer
> version and ship ALL dependencies and make sure they all get picked up
> properly by our customers and have it still work :)...

GCC 4.4 is old and going out of support for us soon; 4.1 is positively ancient 
and there may be dragons.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center