Building qt 5.15 with mingw on windows error cant find qfreetypefontdatabase_p.h
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Hello,
I want to build qt 5.15 using mingw on windows, but after around 10 minutes it fails with error:
........\include\QtFontDatabaseSupport\5.15.4/QtFontDatabaseSupport/private/qfreetypefontdatabase_p.h:1:10: fatal error: ../../../../../src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/freetype/qfreetypefontdatabase_p.h: No such file or directory
#include "../../../../../src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/freetype/qfreetypefontdatabase_p.h"Steps to reproduce, on Windows 11:
- Have mingw 8.10 64bit installed with the qt online installer.
- Downloaded and unzipped qt-everywhere-src-5.15.4.zip
- Make sure mingw is in the PATH
- call configure.bat with (Note: I have put this in another batch file):
./configure ^
-release ^
-opensource ^
-confirm-license ^
-skip qtcharts ^
-skip qtvirtualkeyboard ^
-skip qtdatavis3d ^
-silent ^
-nomake examples ^
-nomake tests ^
-qpa xcb ^
-system-zlib ^
-plugin-sql-odbc ^
-plugin-sql-sqlite ^
-opengl desktop ^
-no-sql-sqlite2 ^
-no-strip
(configure is busy a while bootstrapping qmake)
Then mingw32-make -j8 (as suggested by configure, but with -j8 to speed up using multple cpu's)
It starts promising, but after 15 minutes the said errors appear, multiple times.
Anybody an idea? Tx. -
Found it: the root directory (path name) I placed the entire project in is too long. Solved when placing in a shorter / simpler directory structure. Must be bug in windows and/or mingw.
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It's the windows path limiting to 260 characters.
