[Qt-interest] Compiling from source

[Peter M. Groen]

This is great advice. Thanx. I'll try this as soon as we're moved to
our new location. Should be around Christmas, so i'll send a follow-up
if everything works. (MySQL is used in almost every project we do in my
company).

Kind Regards
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On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:14:44 +0100
Robert Hairgrove <evorgriahr at hispeed.ch> wrote:

> Peter M. Groen wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I tried compiling Qt 4.6 from sources ( MaxOSX 10.6 Snow Leopard )
> > but it always breaks on the WebCore.
> > 
> > The only success I had on compiling was with the WebCore option
> > disabled. What could be the problem here? What am I missing?
> > 
> 
> Hello, I just ran into the same problem when compiling Qt 4.6.0 on
> Mac OSX 10.5.8 with a configuration which included MySQL support and
> WebKit. I got the exact error messages which you did, and I can
> confirm that it is indeed a conflicting header file.
> 
> The default Mac installation puts all of the MySQL libraries into 
> /usr/local/mysql-5.*-osx10.*-x86 and then advises to create an alias 
> "mysql" to that directory. Still, the Qt configure program cannot
> find the MySQL include nor the lib directory by itself. However,
> including the include directory as an -I switch will cause this
> directory to be searched before all others, thus causing the conflict.
> 
> It seems that the header "plugin.h" is probably the culprit, although 
> I'm not 100% sure about it. What I did to solve the problem was to
> add a single symbolic link (alias) to the single header file
> "mysql.h" in the /usr/local/include directory and only added an -L
> switch to the configure program so that the linker can find the MySQL
> libs. Then I invoked "make" again (repeatedly) and watched which
> additional headers were claimed as missing. There are about 5 or 6 of
> these, namely:
> 
> mysql.h
> my_alloc.h
> my_list.h
> mysql_com.h
> mysql_time.h
> mysql_version.h
> typelib.h
> 
> OK, there are 7 of them total. ... Anyway, once you have these in
> place, and have added the -L switch to the configuration, everything
> should compile and build correctly. But don't make a symlink to the
> entire directory because you will get the conflict with at least one
> of the other header files in that directory; you have to make links
> to the individual files.
> 
> Please note that I haven't actually had time to USE anything of the
> new Qt installation yet, so "caveat emptor" applies!
> 
> HTH
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Peter M. Groen
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