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    SGaist
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    wrote on 21 Mar 2017, 08:14 last edited by
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    @JiujiuTong wait a minute, there's a problem here, you are mixing a cross-compilation problem which is not related to the problem at hand for @Harry123 which is just trying to compile Qt for its desktop.

    @Harry123 Can you share the configure line you used to compile Qt on your machine ?

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      wrote on 21 Mar 2017, 10:12 last edited by
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      @SGaist :
      I first tried ./configure -debug which gave me the problem of QGLContext.
      I next tried ./configure -debug -no-opengl which gave me the problem of QQuickFramebufferObject.

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        wrote on 21 Mar 2017, 11:32 last edited by
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        Can you check with -opengl desktop ?

        I'd recommend doing out of source builds. That way you can just nuke the build folder is something goes wrong.

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          wrote on 21 Mar 2017, 13:11 last edited by
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          @SGaist :

          It wouldn't work with -opengl desktop because already when I used just ./configure I had a message about opengl missing.

          I have anyway given up on compiling the sources - configure simply doesn't do the job correctly with the default flags, and each try takes hours.

          I have taken to using instead the online installer, which installs a viable version optionally with the sources.

          Would you know if I can use the online installer to install directly into the /usr folders such as /usr/bin, /usr/include etc. ? Or after the installation to copy the installed folders to there?

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            wrote on 21 Mar 2017, 13:27 last edited by
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            In that case it means you don't have the OpenGL dev package installed.

            You can't and you shouldn't even try. You'll be clearly messing with your distribution installation which is a very bad idea.

            If you want to share your Qt installation with several users on your machine then use the default which is /opt otherwise, you can also simply install it in your home folder.

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              wrote on 21 Mar 2017, 13:43 last edited by
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              @SGaist :
              I'm the only user and the installation is on a VM.
              I would like to reproduce the effect of Qt being installed from the repository, even though version 5.8 is not in it.

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                wrote on 21 Mar 2017, 14:10 last edited by
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                That's not a good idea. You are trying to replace your system Qt installation which has been built by the Debian folks in a state known to work for them.

                Why do you want to replace it ?

                If you want the Debian variant of Qt 5.8 then install the experimental version of Debian.

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                  wrote on 21 Mar 2017, 15:34 last edited by
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                  @SGaist :
                  OK, I gave up on this idea. Unfortunate that a repository does not exist for QT 5.8 (Debian experimental only contains parts).
                  I will stay with the online installation and will give up on my ambition to compile Qt.
                  Too bad, as I wanted a real debug version for easier debugging.

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                    wrote on 21 Mar 2017, 20:18 last edited by
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                    Like I already wrote, there seems to be something missing on your system.

                    You should be able to build Qt 5.8 without any problem on Debian.

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                      wrote on 22 Mar 2017, 20:24 last edited by Harry123
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                      @SGaist : Unfortunately we live in an imperfect world.
                      Thanks for your help - much appreciated.

                      I will mark this post as solved, even though it's not really, but I have no more time to spend on this.

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