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

[Mike Jackson]

I have built Qt 4.5 on OS X 10.5.6 using Xcode 3.1.2 from Apple. This 
was on an Intel based machine. The configure line that I used was the 
following:

./configure -prefix /Users/Shared/Toolkits/Qt-4.5.0-UBFramework 
-universal -cocoa -framework -fast -shared -debug-and-release

Which built a 32 bit universal binary (ppc7400 and i386) of Qt.

Some notes from ./configure --help:
	    -cocoa ............. Build the Cocoa version of Qt. Note that 
-no-framework
                         and -static is not supported with -cocoa. Specifying
                         this option creates Qt binaries that requires Mac OS X
                         10.5 or higher.

    -arch <arch> ....... Build Qt for <arch>
                         Example values for <arch>: x86 ppc x86_64 ppc64
                         Multiple -arch arguments can be specified, 
64-bit archs
                         will be built with the Cocoa framework.

So, reading above if you want a 64bit build (Quad binary) then you are 
_required_ to have frameworks, which requires Dylibs and also use the 
-cocoa flag.  You will also need to add the following:

-arch x86 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc -arch ppc64 to the "configure line above".

Hope that helps
Mike Jackson

On 2009-03-10 15:15:33 -0400, Rush Manbert <rush at manbert.com> said:

> 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