[Interest] Chromium build failure, SSL and Qt 5.6.3 vs 5.6.0,

[Christian Gagneraud]

On 30 July 2018 at 16:05, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 July 2018 13:58:41 PDT Christian Gagneraud wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We used to build Qt-5.6.3 on and for Linux-i386.
>> I recently had to downgrade to Qt-5.6.0 (see below), but now the build
>> fails with:
>>
>> qtwebengine/src/3rdparty/chromium/net/third_party/nss/ssl/ssl3con.c:
>> In function 'ssl3_ChaCha20Poly1305':
>> qtwebengine/src/3rdparty/chromium/net/third_party/nss/ssl/ssl3con.c:2118:15:
>> error: 'CK_NSS_AEAD_PARAMS {aka struct CK_NSS_AEAD_PARAMS}' has no member
>> named 'pIv'
>>      aeadParams.pIv = (unsigned char *) additionalData;
>>                ^
>
> Which OpenSSL version is this? Before Qt 5.10, you had to use 1.0. You cannot
> use 1.1.

I'm using standard OpenSSL shipped with Ubuntu-16.04:
OpenSSL 1.0.2g  1 Mar 2016

>
>> Note: The reason i need to downgrade, is because we have C++ source
>> generated with QtQuickCompiler, these sources have been generated on
>> Windows using Qt-5.6.0, and apparently it is not possible to build
>> these generated sources with Qt-5.6.3 (!?!), cherry on the cake, our
>> CI build system is i386-linux, ans The Qt Company doesn't provide
>> binaries of QtQuickCompiler for i386-Linux, nor does it provide
>> sources to build it ourselves.
>
> The compiler is a commercial offering. So you must have a business
> relationship with them. I suggestion you contact your technical support and
> ask for that binary.
>
> That's what happens when you use non-open source.

You're preaching a converted... :)