Qt6, building linguist tools

jgnsb

I'm building Qt 6 from source because the app I'm building requires a specific Qt version not provided by the host OS (Ubuntu 24.04). I'm using these instructions: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/linux-building.html. The application requires the translation tools (lrelease, etc), but those binaries aren't being build. I've tried adding '-feature-translation' and an explicit '-make tools' to the configure step, but no joy.

How do I get the tools in qttools/src/linguist to build?

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Check the configure logs to see what was missing that disabled the tools.

In between, you can use linguist from your distribution without any issue.

l3u_

For the sake of completeness, you could also build the Linguist tools separatey, e.g. for Qt 6.7.3 like this:

Get the sources:

wget https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/6.7/6.7.3/submodules/qttools-everywhere-src-6.7.3.tar.xz
tar -xvf qttools-everywhere-src-6.7.3.tar.xz
mkdir qttools-everywhere-src-6.7.3/build
cd qttools-everywhere-src-6.7.3/build

Then build the Linuist tools:

cmake -G Ninja \
    -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=~/Qt/6.7.3 \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/Qt/6.7.3 \
    -DFEATURE_assistant=OFF \
    -DFEATURE_clang=OFF \
    -DFEATURE_designer=OFF \
    -DFEATURE_pixeltool=OFF \
    -DFEATURE_qdbus=OFF \
    -DFEATURE_qtattributionsscanner=OFF \
    -DFEATURE_qtdiag=OFF \
    -DFEATURE_qtplugininfo=OFF \
    ..

cmake --build . --parallel

cmake --install .