[Interest] QtWebkit error while building Qt5.12.7 sources

Sze Howe Koh szehowe.koh at gmail.com
Wed Feb 19 01:29:13 CET 2020


On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 08:05, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, 18 February 2020 15:45:26 PST Sze Howe Koh wrote:
> > That version is very old and unmaintained. It probably contains many
> > security holes and incompatibilites with Qt 5.12.
> >
> > Get the "5.212" branch from https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtwebkit.git instead.
>
> No, don't. That's also very old an unmaintained, just less old than 5.5.
>
> There's no good solution for using qtwebkit. You have to stop using it.

I was under the impression that Konstantin Tokarev was keeping the Qt
WebKit sources up-to-date with upstream WebKit, even though it's not
part of the official Qt releases?

To Ramakanth: There is also Qt WebEngine which you can use
out-of-the-box with Qt 5.12.


Regards,
Sze-Howe


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