[Qt-interest] Qt 4.5 build failing on Mac OSX

[Tommy Nordgren]

I have myself experienced problems building on Mac OS X
The problem in my case, were invalid Makefiles being generated by qmake.
The problem occured in the flags used for linking, which contained
string fragments of the type   :
-arch -framework
and
-arch -l<libraryname>
edititng the deficient makefiles fixed the problem.

On Mar 10, 2009, at 8:15 PM, Rush Manbert wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I got the Mac open source distribution and tried to build it using
> this configuration:
>
> /configure -prefix /Users/rmanbert/temp/qt4.5.0 -debug-and-release -
> static -webkit -platform macx-g++ -qt-zlib -qt-libtiff -qt-libpng -qt-
> libmng -qt-libjpeg -universal
>
> It chugged away for a long time, then got an error. Here is the
> context and the error:
> ranlib -s libQtWebKit_debug.a
> ranlib: for architecture: ppc file: libQtWebKit_debug.a(HashTable.o)
> has no symbols
> ranlib: for architecture: ppc file: libQtWebKit_debug.a(CollatorICU.o)
> has no symbols
> ranlib: for architecture: ppc file:
> libQtWebKit_debug.a(StructureStubInfo.o) has no symbols
> ranlib: for architecture: ppc file: libQtWebKit_debug.a(JIT.o) has no
> symbols
> <snip similar lines>
> ranlib: for architecture: i386 file:
> libQtWebKit_debug.a(JSWorkerLocation.o) has no symbols
> ranlib: for architecture: i386 file:
> libQtWebKit_debug.a(JSWorkerNavigator.o) has no symbols
> ranlib: for architecture: i386 file:
> libQtWebKit_debug.a(JSXSLTProcessor.o) has no symbols
> ranlib: can't vm_allocate() buffer for output file:
> libQtWebKit_debug.a of size 1680905592 ((os/kern) no space available)
> <<<------ Error here
> make[2]: *** [../../../../lib/libQtWebKit_debug.a] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [debug-all] Error 2
> make: *** [sub-webkit-make_default-ordered] Error 2
>
>
> I have googled and I understand the problem. I suppose I can sidestep
> it for now by not building the universal library. But if I end up
> using Qt in my projects, I'm going to need static quad libraries and I
> have to be able to build them. (I have also seen the information that
> says you can't build 64-bit static libs for Mac, so I'm concerned
> about that. But my worst case fallback is that I have to use quad
> dylibs, and I'll need to build them too.)
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Rush
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Tommy Nordgren
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