[Interest] Error when configuring Qt 6.X.Y to build from source on Windows with -openssl-linked

[Alexandru Croitor]

Hi,

You're telling the build system to link openssl, but openssl was likely not found.
Perhaps you have it installed in a different path on the new machine, and the value you pass to OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR is incorrect.


> On 26. Jun 2024, at 15:23, Nuno Santos via Interest <interest at qt-project.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I’ve been building Qt 6.X.Y successfully from the source on Windows with the following configuration command:
> 
> configure.bat -prefix C:\Qt\6.6.3\msvc2019_static -static -static-runtime -debug-and-release -nomake examples -nomake tests -nomake benchmarks -nomake manual-tests -nomake minimal-static-tests -openssl-linked -qtnamespace com_imaginando_qt_6_6_3 -- -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR="C:\Qt-Utils\openssl" -DOPENSSL_USE_STATIC_LIBS=TRUE
> 
> But today, after installing MSVC on a new machine with a different because I need to test with a different graphics card, I got:
> 
> CMake Error at qtbase/cmake/QtBuildInformation.cmake:523 (message):
>  Feature "openssl": Forcing to "ON" breaks its condition:
> 
>      QT_FEATURE_openssl_runtime OR QT_FEATURE_openssl_linked
> 
>  Condition values dump:
> 
>      QT_FEATURE_openssl_runtime = "OFF"
>      QT_FEATURE_openssl_linked = "OFF"
> 
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>  qtbase/cmake/QtFeature.cmake:317 (qt_configure_add_report_error)
>  qtbase/cmake/QtFeature.cmake:437 (qt_feature_check_and_save_internal_value)
>  qtbase/cmake/QtFeature.cmake:706 (qt_evaluate_feature)
>  qtbase/cmake/QtBaseGlobalTargets.cmake:109 (qt_feature_module_end)
>  qtbase/CMakeLists.txt:143 (include)
> 
> 
> First I thought it was a CMake version problem so I have installed CMake 3.25.1 the same version of the machine I have made this same build a couple of days ago.
> 
> But even with CMake 3.25.1 it fails to configure in the same way. The only difference is probably the MSVC19 version because it was installed today on this machine.
> 
> Can someone please advise what is wrong with the configure line?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Nuno
> 
> 
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