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QTWebkit problem building 4.11.x on Windows

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#1

I’ve been playing around with building the 4.11.x qt client on windows using msys2. I know I can download the client but I want to get familiar with the code.

I got operpt working and connecting to a database and csvimp has built successfully. However when I try to build xtuple I get the following error:

ar -M < object_script.libxtuplecommon.Release
mingw32-make[2]: Leaving directory ‘D:/xtuple/qt-client/common’
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory ‘D:/xtuple/qt-client/common’
cd scriptapi\ && ( if not exist Makefile d:\xtuple\qt\qtbase\bin\qmake.exe D:\xtuple\qt-client\scriptapi\scriptapi.pro -o Makefile ) && mingw32-make -f Makefile
Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: webkit webkitwidgets
mingw32-make: *** [Makefile:86: sub-scriptapi-make_first-ordered] Error 3

So it looks like I needed to have built webkit. Does anyone have details on building this? I built ICU and added its path to PATH before calling configure. Do I need to add more code and build or is there some other way to fix this message?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

#2

If you are just trying to build the client to check out xTuple’s source code and to tinker with your own client, I would highly suggest just using Qt’s binary distribution of Qt 5.5.1 for Windows, and saving yourself the headache of building Webkit/5.5.1 on a modern Windows installation.

Link: http://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.5/5.5.1/qt-opensource-windows-x86-mingw492-5.5.1.exe

Otherwise, Qt does publish a few articles that may be of use:

https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git
https://wiki.qt.io/Building_WebKit_with_Qt_5.6_beta_on_Windows_8.1_x64

For the 4.11.x series of xTuple we use Qt version 5.5.1, MinGW distribution, 32bit/x86 only. For the 5.0.0 series it is the MSVC2017 64 bit version.

Just in case you haven’t seen it yet, our developer environment document is here: https://github.com/xtuple/qt-client/wiki/Desktop-Development-Environment-Setup

-David

#3

Just to echo what David has said, I have done exactly has he suggested. My interest is exactly as David put just to tinker around nothing else. I have used the QT binary 5.5.1 and the mingw compiler for quite some time.

I have just recently gotten the 5.0 environment set up, again exactly as David described above. Being a Visual Studio user for what seems like forever I already owned all the Microsoft pieces. I have gotten a successful compile of 5.0 Alpha. It does take a little tweaking etc or at least it did for me. But it does exactly what I want.

I have created these two environments on different machines

Larry Cartee

#4

Thanks for the replies guys. I had seen the developer doc but the way I read it was that it would be best to build everything from source.

I managed to get it all built from source. To say building QT was frustrating would be an understatement :slight_smile:

It’s good to know that the binary distribution works. My build of xtuple is now working fine so I have something to tinker with.

I might give 5.0 a try when I get some time later in the month.