Building QtWebKit for Qt 5.7 win32-msvc2015

[Peppy]

Hello guys, did anyone build QtWebKit module for Qt 5.7 (win32-msvc2015)? I set SQLITE3SRCDIR, set ICU location, but qmake/makefile is somewhat hesistant to build anything, here is what are they complaining about not having the right functions:

Reading C:/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/Source/QtWebKit.pro
C:/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/Source/QtWebKit.pro:13: 'build?' is not a recognized test function.
C:/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/Source/QtWebKit.pro:18: 'build?' is not a recognized test function.
C:/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/Source/QtWebKit.pro:34: 'have?' is not a recognized test function.
C:/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/Source/QtWebKit.pro:36: 'build?' is not a recognized test function.
 Reading C:/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/Source/api.pri
C:/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/Source/api.pri:17: 'build?' is not a recognized test function.
C:/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/Source/api.pri:18: 'build?' is not a recognized test function.
C:/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/Source/api.pri:22: 'build?' is not a recognized test function.
C:/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/Source/api.pri:25: 'build?' is not a recognized test function.
C:/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/Source/api.pri:27: 'use?' is not a recognized test function.
C:/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/Source/api.pri:28: 'use?' is not a recognized test function.
C:/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.7.0/Source/api.pri:45: Cannot find feature webkit_modules
Project ERROR: Module does not define version.

any idea how to fix it?

[A Former User]

@Peppy Hi! Maybe you want to ping @agarny for this.

[Konstantin Tokarev]

@Peppy Can it be that you are using qmake from Qt 4 to build it?

[Peppy]

@Konstantin-Tokarev I'm not using Qt 4 since Qt 5 was released.

[Konstantin Tokarev]

@Peppy Ok, next try: you are building Source/QtWebKit.pro instead of top-level WebKit.pro

[Peppy]

@Konstantin-Tokarev I'm building it via command line. i.e.:

C:\Qt\5.7\...\bin\qmake.exe -r CONFIG+=release 

the variables are set to

PATH=C:\icu\lib;C:\icu\include;C:\...
SQLITE3SRCDIR=C:\Qt\5.7\...\Src\qtbase\src\3rdparty\sqlite

and by the way, that's not the whole output. It's much more longer, but I've truncated it.

[Peppy]

Okay, few updates:

• Needed msys64, ruby and python, after installing msys64, install via pacman -Sy python ruby
• QMAKE still can't find ICU even if I added them into path. (ping @Konstantin-Tokarev)

[Konstantin Tokarev]

When building on Windows, you should add ICU paths to INCLUDE and LIBS environment variables.

BTW, it may make more sense for you to build new QtWebKit from https://github.com/annulen/webkit (see https://github.com/annulen/webkit/wiki/Building-QtWebKit-on-Windows for build instructions).

[Peppy]

@Konstantin-Tokarev Why would I use that branch?

INCLUDEPATH and LIBS somehow does not work... I will try to tinker with it today again.

[Konstantin Tokarev]

Because it is based on WebKit revision from 2016 (not from 2013, as in 5.7), and it has seen a lot of testing with MSVC 2015 (I'm not sure if 5.7 has all necessary patches, e.g. this may be needed: https://github.com/Vitallium/qtwebkit/commit/4cd12f3ec460a38bfb15a78beb1ec27fe6aebd60)

[Peppy]

@Konstantin-Tokarev what exactly do I have to link? How the LIBS variable should look like.

[Konstantin Tokarev]

My bad, it's actually "LIB", not "LIBS". It should contain semicolon-separated list of directories where libraries can be searched