Building QT source stuck in the configure stage

fareshmoneim

I am trying to build Qt 5.15.1 by cloning the repo and following the README but I came across an issue an issue.

Everything went seemingly well till the step where I needed to run the configure file following the way mentioned in the README first I had an issue that required me to add a -platform tag so I did.

  ../qt5/configure -developer-build -opensource -nomake examples -nomake tests -platform win32-g++

Executing the command resulted in the following output

+ cd qtbase
+ /e/qt5/qtbase/configure -top-level -prefix /e/qt5/qtbase -opensource -nomake tests -platform win32-g++
<srcbase> = e:/qt5/qtbase
<bldbase> = e:/qt5-build/qtbase
<outbase> = e:/qt5-build/qtbase
Creating qmake...
.......................................................................Done.
Info: creating super cache file E:\qt5-build\.qmake.super
Info: creating cache file E:\qt5-build\.qmake.cache
Info: creating stash file E:\qt5-build\.qmake.stash

And it was stuck there and never proceeded, I waited over an hour and it still won't proceed.

Even when I try executing the next step which is make -j4 there is no make file so the command doesn't work. I think it is worth mentioning that there is a qt.pro file in the directory, not exactly sure if it has anything to do with my issue or not.

Christian Ehrlicher

/e/qt5/qtbase/configure

make -j4

As already told you on SO remove bash and msys stuff from your PATH env var. The correct make tool for MinGW is mingw32-make. Also why do you want to build 5.15.1 by yourself - there is a precompiled 5.15.2 available through the online installer.

fareshmoneim

I can't seem to find any bash/msys stuff in my PATH env var, and to answer your second question I am building an application that will be part of another bigger application written in qt 5.15.1 it is a constraint I need to follow.

Christian Ehrlicher

You have, otherwise you would neither get the output

/e/qt5/qtbase/configure

nor would be able to call 'make.exe' as this is not available for MinGW.

fareshmoneim

Sadly this doesn't seem to work for me, I checked to make sure I don't have any msys/bash related env vars and tried rerunning the command, and still don't seem to be getting anywhere. I really appreciate your patience and time though.

JonB

@fareshmoneim said in Building QT source stuck in the configure stage:

I can't seem to find any bash/msys stuff in my PATH env var

I don't use Windows, so please don't ask me further if this is wrong, but might things like make & bash be in your C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin directory on your PATH?

fareshmoneim

@JonB I thought so as well but I tried removing it and still the same, thank you for your comment though.

SGaist

Hi,

Which terminal are you using when doing this ?

Christian Ehrlicher

where make.exe, where sh.exe and where bash.exe willshow you from where it's picked up