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    WoldemarShiPa
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    Hello. I built qt5 on my Gentoo machine and tried to run one of its tools (designer, for instance) but it failed. No GUI is shown but process runs. Later, I connected to machine through ssh with X forwarding, executed designer and it ran well, GUI was shown. Thanks

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      ezust
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      There is a nice shortcut for installing build dependencies for qt5 on ubuntu/debian based systems.

      sudo apt-get build-dep qt5-default

      I'm not exactly sure where to put this tip in the wiki page though.

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        [quote author="ezust" date="1412525485"]There is a nice shortcut for installing build dependencies for qt5 on ubuntu/debian based systems.

        sudo apt-get build-dep qt5-default

        I'm not exactly sure where to put this tip in the wiki page though.
        [/quote]Here's a good place: http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building_Qt_5_from_Git (It's a rather massive page though, so read through the whole thing first to find the best place to put yours)

        Qt Doc Search for browsers: forum.qt.io/topic/35616/web-browser-extension-for-improved-doc-searches

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          _dmp
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          Hi!

          I got http://download.qt-project.org/development_releases/qt/5.4/5.4.0-beta/single/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.4.0-beta.tar.xz

          When I compile I got errors:

          .obj/qsqldatabase.o:qsqldatabase.cpp:function QSqlDatabasePrivate::database(QString const&, bool): error: undefined reference to ‘QDebug::~QDebug()’

          .obj/qsqlfield.o:qsqlfield.cpp:function operator<<(QDebug, QSqlField const&): error: undefined reference to ‘QDebug::~QDebug()’

          .obj/qtestlog.o:qtestlog.cpp:function QTest::messageHandler(QtMsgType, QMessageLogContext const&, QString const&): error: undefined reference to ‘qFormatLogMessage(QtMsgType, QMessageLogContext const&, QString const&)’

          .obj/qnetworkaccessbackend.o:qnetworkaccessbackend.cpp:function QNetworkAccessBackend::createUploadByteDevice(): error: undefined reference to ‘QNonContiguousByteDeviceFactory::createShared(QSharedPointer<QRingBuffer>)’

          what can help here?

          I build qt for MX6 SOC.

          My config is

          @unset QTDIR
          export PATH="$PWD/qtbase/bin:$PWD/qtrepotools/bin:$PATH"
          export LIBS="$PWD:$LIBS"

          ./configure -opensource -confirm-license
          -device imx6
          -device-option CROSS_COMPILE=/usr/local/linaro-toolchain/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-
          -no-pch
          -no-opengl
          -no-xcb
          -opengl es2
          -make libs
          -nomake examples
          -nomake tests
          -sysroot /home/work/fs -no-gcc-sysroot
          -prefix /opt/qt5
          -v@

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            _rth_
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            #157

            Hello.

            I am trying to build Qt 5.4.1 on CentOS 5.10. Unfortunately I got stuck on step:

            yum install libxcb libxcb-devel xcb-util xcb-util-devel

            Error:

            sudo yum install libxcb libxcb-devel xcb-util xcb-util-devel
            Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
            Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

            • base: mirror.nsc.liu.se
            • epel: mirror.nsc.liu.se
            • extras: mirror.nsc.liu.se
            • updates: mirror.nsc.liu.se
              Setting up Install Process
              No package libxcb available.
              No package libxcb-devel available.
              No package xcb-util available.
              No package xcb-util-devel available.
              Nothing to do
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              WaltPurvis
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              • W werispaul

                I had to use "-prefix CD\qtbase" option as described in the qt5 git readme file, to get through the configure step without errors. By not specifying the prefix, my mkspec (win32-msvc2010), was searched in "qtbase\bin" instead in "qtbase".

                In addition i had to install python, because one of the compilation steps had an python call.

                To init the QT Modules I used "git submodule init" and "git submodule update". Are there any magics behind the perl init-submodule script i'm missing (beside submodule selection and git user settings)?

                Actually i'm trying to compile the current git master using Win 7 and VS2010 without success.

                @ cl -c -FIqt_widgets_pch.h -Yuqt_widgets_pch.h -Fptmp\obj\debug_shared\QtWidgetsd_pch.pch -nologo -Zm200 -Zc:wchar_t -Zi -MDd -W3 -w34100 -w341
                89 -MP -GR -EHsc -DQT_SHARED -DUNICODE -DWIN32 -DQT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT -DQT_BUILD_WIDGETS_LIB -DQT_NO_USING_NAMESPACE -DQT_MAKEDLL -DQT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCI
                I -DQT_ASCII_CAST_WARNINGS -DQT_MOC_COMPAT -DQT_USE_QSTRINGBUILDER -D_USE_MATH_DEFINES -DQT_NO_STYLE_MAC -DQT_NO_STYLE_GTK -DQT_NO_STYLE_WINDOWSCE -DQ
                T_NO_STYLE_WINDOWSMOBILE -DQ_INTERNAL_QAPP_SRC -DQT_NO_DIRECTWRITE -DQT_DLL -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_HAVE_MMX -DQT_H
                AVE_3DNOW -DQT_HAVE_SSE -DQT_HAVE_MMXEXT -DQT_HAVE_SSE2 -I"....\include\QtCore" -I"....\include\QtCore\5.0.0" -I"....\include\QtCore\5.0.0\QtCore"
                -I"....\include\QtGui\5.0.0" -I"....\include\QtGui\5.0.0\QtGui" -I"....\include\QtGui" -I"....\include" -I"....\include\QtWidgets\5.0.0" -I"....
                \include\QtWidgets\5.0.0\QtWidgets" -I"....\include\QtWidgets" -I"....\include" -I"tmp\rcc\debug_shared" -I"tmp" -I"..\3rdparty\wintab" -I"dialogs"
                -I"..\3rdparty\harfbuzz\src" -I"tmp\moc\debug_shared" -I"." -I"....\mkspecs\win32-msvc2010" -Fotmp\obj\debug_shared\ @C:\Users\vth\AppData\Local\Temp
                \nmDEE9.tmp
                qpushbutton.cpp
                c:\qt\5.0\qtbase\include\qtwidgets\5.0.0\qtwidgets\private../../../../../src/widgets/dialogs/qdialog_p.h(61) : fatal error C1083: Datei (Include) kan
                n nicht geöffnet werden: "QtGui/QPlatformDialogHelper": No such file or directory
                NMAKE : fatal error U1077: ""c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\BIN\cl.EXE"": Rückgabe-Code "0x2"
                Stop.
                NMAKE : fatal error U1077: ""c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"": Rückgabe-Code "0x2"
                Stop.
                NMAKE : fatal error U1077: "cd": Rückgabe-Code "0x2"
                Stop.
                NMAKE : fatal error U1077: "cd": Rückgabe-Code "0x2"
                Stop.@

                Is there a nightly build process for Qt5 or kind of branch which is stable in the meaning of: at least compilable?

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                iristevski
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                #159

                @werispaul did you found a solution to this compiling error: "QtGui/QPlatformDialogHelper": No such file or directory?
                I have similar problem with missing headers, when compiling Qt from git.

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                  Hey All,

                  For anybody wanting to contribute to Qt5 I have started a wiki article on how to go about getting the code for the modularised Qt5 and building it.

                  Please feel free to edit for other platforms or as things change during development.

                  [EDIT: Updated link from nokia.com to wiki.qt.io --JKSH]

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                    DungeonLords
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                    #161

                    I try build Qt 5.12 on my Ubuntu 18 with X11 on OrangePi 4 like here
                    Qt soures are on qt5 folder
                    build folder is parallel qt5
                    I use
                    cd build
                    sudo ../configure -developer-build -opensource -nomake examples -namake tests -confirm-licence -skip webengine -v

                    And there are errors like failed to create symbolic link 'libreduce_exports.so': Operation not permitted

                    But I use sudo... Also I try use sudo su. The same. Is this error because of FAT32 file system for my qt5 and build folders?
                    After make -j 4 I got build/qtbase/lib/libQt5Core.so No such file or directory

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                      I try build Qt 5.12 on my Ubuntu 18 with X11 on OrangePi 4 like here
                      Qt soures are on qt5 folder
                      build folder is parallel qt5
                      I use
                      cd build
                      sudo ../configure -developer-build -opensource -nomake examples -namake tests -confirm-licence -skip webengine -v

                      And there are errors like failed to create symbolic link 'libreduce_exports.so': Operation not permitted

                      But I use sudo... Also I try use sudo su. The same. Is this error because of FAT32 file system for my qt5 and build folders?
                      After make -j 4 I got build/qtbase/lib/libQt5Core.so No such file or directory

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                      jsulm
                      Lifetime Qt Champion
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                      #162

                      @DungeonLords Why do you use FAT32 on Linux?
                      You should not use sudo at all - put Qt sources and build folder in your home directory.

                      https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct

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                        Gluttony
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                        #163

                        Hi,
                        About this page: https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git

                        • For openSUSE (I'm on Leap 15), I had to install more software than the one listed (sudo zypper install git-core gcc-c++ make), they are llvm-devel clang clang-devel mozilla-nss-devel (not sure for clang if just clang is needed or just clang-devel or both),
                        • And just out of curiosity, is there a reason why weneed run configure with ../qt5/configure and not just ./configure ?

                        Thanks

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                        • G Gluttony

                          Hi,
                          About this page: https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git

                          • For openSUSE (I'm on Leap 15), I had to install more software than the one listed (sudo zypper install git-core gcc-c++ make), they are llvm-devel clang clang-devel mozilla-nss-devel (not sure for clang if just clang is needed or just clang-devel or both),
                          • And just out of curiosity, is there a reason why weneed run configure with ../qt5/configure and not just ./configure ?

                          Thanks

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                          jsulm
                          Lifetime Qt Champion
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #164

                          @Gluttony said in Qt5 development primer:

                          And just out of curiosity, is there a reason why weneed run configure with ../qt5/configure and not just ./configure ?

                          It is better to do out of source builds to not to pollute source tree with build artefacts.

                          https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct

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                            bhagerty
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                            #165

                            I proposed a few edits over on the wiki to clarify the business about parallel directories and shadow builds, because I found the instructions very confusing. I now think it needs yet another edit, and I wanted to run it by this forum.

                            If you follow the instructions about creating a build directory that is parallel to the source directory, you end up with two directories both in home: (1) ~/qt5, which holds the source (per the git clone instructions on the page, and (2) ~/qt5-build (or something like that), in which the source is built. Number (2) is not explicit in the existing instructions, but it has to be the intention, otherwise the command given for running configure, namely ../qt5/configure, would not work.

                            But if you build Qt inside your home directory, then when you try to run qmake naked at a prompt, you get an error:

                            qmake: could not exec '/usr/lib/qt5/bin/qmake': No such file or directory

                            The error makes sense, because if we followed directions, we didn't build Qt into /usr/lib/qt5, but instead into ~/qt5-build (or something like it). So to run qmake, we need to provide the full path (or change the PATH environment variable).

                            My question: Am I missing something? If I'm not, then I think that the wiki should be further edited to make this point about the path. But I hesitate to make yet another edit in case I am missing something. If anyone can shed some light either way, please do. If I'm right, I'll just edit the wiki page.

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                              I proposed a few edits over on the wiki to clarify the business about parallel directories and shadow builds, because I found the instructions very confusing. I now think it needs yet another edit, and I wanted to run it by this forum.

                              If you follow the instructions about creating a build directory that is parallel to the source directory, you end up with two directories both in home: (1) ~/qt5, which holds the source (per the git clone instructions on the page, and (2) ~/qt5-build (or something like that), in which the source is built. Number (2) is not explicit in the existing instructions, but it has to be the intention, otherwise the command given for running configure, namely ../qt5/configure, would not work.

                              But if you build Qt inside your home directory, then when you try to run qmake naked at a prompt, you get an error:

                              qmake: could not exec '/usr/lib/qt5/bin/qmake': No such file or directory

                              The error makes sense, because if we followed directions, we didn't build Qt into /usr/lib/qt5, but instead into ~/qt5-build (or something like it). So to run qmake, we need to provide the full path (or change the PATH environment variable).

                              My question: Am I missing something? If I'm not, then I think that the wiki should be further edited to make this point about the path. But I hesitate to make yet another edit in case I am missing something. If anyone can shed some light either way, please do. If I'm right, I'll just edit the wiki page.

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                              SGaist
                              Lifetime Qt Champion
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                              #166

                              @bhagerty hi and welcome to devnet,

                              What using a custom build of Qt: always use the full path to qmake. You may have the one provided by your distribution installed which will be the one invoked. One other thing you did not take into account is unless you are doing a developer build (because you want to hack on Qt) you have to call 'make install' as last step.

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                              Please read the Qt Code of Conduct - https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct

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