[Web] Suggestion to include info about dependencies on Qt download page

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org [mailto:web-
> bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz
> Siekierda
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:13 AM
> To: web at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Web] Suggestion to include info about dependencies on Qt
> download page
> 
> Hi,
> 
> as seen in https://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/25260/#116139 and
> several similar threads, there are many people who think Qt will install
> everything for them automatically.
> 
> This is of course not the case, and for good reasons. I feel problem can be
> solved by simply adding information about dependencies to the Downloads
> page.
> 
> I have created a stub wiki article based on "building Qt5 from git". You can link
> to it from Downloads page or do anything else you see fit.

Hi Tomasz, 

Thanks for the initiative. However, most of the dependencies listed (ICU, xcb-dev*...) shouldn't really be needed for the binary packages. Since it's a wiki I took the initiative and just removed the sections ...

 - The full story about xcb is actually that we require only libX11-xcb.so.1, libxcb.so.1 at runtime. But these libraries should really be available on most systems by default this days. If your system doesn’t have the libs, then I'm afraid just 'installing' all of xcb won't help you either, since the x11 server itself has to be compiled with xcb support).

- for ICU, we ship the needed libs in the bin folder. Just use them.

Regards

Kai

> Here's the link to my new wiki: http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt5_dependencies
> Feel free to change/ expand it.
> 
> Cheers,
> sierdzio