Qt 5.1 Alpha not building webkit

altera_2011

I've built Qt 4.x and 5.0 from source many many times. But this is puzzling. Qt 5.1 alpha is refusing to build webkit. The best part is there is no error, it just completes building everything except webkit.

I'm on Windows with MSVC-2010 sp1. I cannot find any reference to webkit in 'configure -help' unlike previous versions where we had a -webkit option. Surely I'm missing something simple... Any ideas?

altera_2011

Still no luck. I've tried several configure options. Pretty much with the same effect:

@..\src\configure -icu -mp -nomake tests -openssl -angle -c++11 -I C:\Qt\5.1-a1\icu-w32\include -I C:/Qt/5.1-a1/openssl-1.0.1c-x86/inc32 -L C:/Qt/5.1-a1/icu-w32\lib -L C:/Qt/5.1-a1/openssl-1.0.1c-x86/out32dll -opensource -platform win32-msvc2010@

Output:

@Configuration:
minimal-config
small-config
medium-config
large-config
full-config
pcre
debug
msvc_mp
Qt Configuration:
debug_and_release build_all release
debug
shared
zlib
icu
angle
png
freetype
build_all
accessibility
opengl
opengles2
egl
openssl
audio-backend
native-gestures
qpa
concurrent
minimal-config
small-config
medium-config
large-config
full-config

QMAKESPEC...................win32-msvc2010 (commandline)
Architecture................i386, features:
Host Architecture...........i386, features:
Maketool....................nmake
Debug build.................yes (combined)
Default build...............debug
Force debug info............no
C++11 support...............auto
Link Time Code Generation...no
Accessibility support.......yes
RTTI support................yes
SSE2 support................yes
SSE3 support................yes
SSSE3 support...............yes
SSE4.1 support..............yes
SSE4.2 support..............yes
AVX support.................yes
AVX2 support................no
NEON support................no
IWMMXT support..............no
OpenGL support..............yes
Large File support..........yes
NIS support.................no
Iconv support...............no
Inotify support.............no
Glib support................no
CUPS support................no
OpenVG support..............no
OpenSSL support.............yes
Qt D-Bus support............no
Qt Widgets module support...yes
QML debugging...............yes
DirectWrite support.........no
Use system proxies..........no

Third Party Libraries:
ZLIB support............qt
GIF support.............plugin
JPEG support............plugin
PNG support.............yes
FreeType support........yes

PCRE support............qt
ICU support.............yes
ANGLE...................yes

Styles:
Windows.................yes
Windows XP..............yes
Windows Vista...........yes
Fusion..................yes
Windows CE..............no
Windows Mobile..........no

Sql Drivers:
ODBC....................no
MySQL...................no
OCI.....................no
PostgreSQL..............no
TDS.....................no
DB2.....................no
SQLite..................plugin (qt)
SQLite2.................no
InterBase...............no

Sources are in..............C:\Qt\5.1-a1\src\qtbase
Build is done in............C:\Qt\5.1-a1\win32\qtbase
Install prefix..............C:\Qt\5.1-a1\win32\qtbase
Headers installed to........C:\Qt\5.1-a1\win32\qtbase\include
Libraries installed to......C:\Qt\5.1-a1\win32\qtbase\lib
Arch-dep. data to...........C:\Qt\5.1-a1\win32\qtbase
Plugins installed to........C:\Qt\5.1-a1\win32\qtbase\plugins
Library execs installed to..C:\Qt\5.1-a1\win32\qtbase\lib
QML1 imports installed to...C:\Qt\5.1-a1\win32\qtbase\imports
QML2 imports installed to...C:\Qt\5.1-a1\win32\qtbase\qml
Binaries installed to.......C:\Qt\5.1-a1\win32\qtbase\bin
Arch-indep. data to.........C:\Qt\5.1-a1\win32\qtbase
Docs installed to...........C:\Qt\5.1-a1\win32\qtbase\doc
Translations installed to...C:\Qt\5.1-a1\win32\qtbase\translations
Examples installed to.......C:\Qt\5.1-a1\win32\qtbase\examples
Tests installed to..........C:\Qt\5.1-a1\win32\qtbase\tests
Include paths...............C:\Qt\5.1-a1\icu-w32\include C:/Qt/5.1-a1/openssl-1.
0.1c-x86/inc32
Additional libraries........-LC:/Qt/5.1-a1/icu-w32\lib -LC:/Qt/5.1-a1/openssl-1.
0.1c-x86/out32dll@

This builds:

@Qt5CLucene.dll
Qt5CLucened.dll
Qt5Concurrent.dll
Qt5Concurrentd.dll
Qt5Core.dll
Qt5Cored.dll
Qt5Declarative.dll
Qt5Declaratived.dll
Qt5Designer.dll
Qt5DesignerComponents.dll
Qt5DesignerComponentsd.dll
Qt5Designerd.dll
Qt5Gui.dll
Qt5Guid.dll
Qt5Help.dll
Qt5Helpd.dll
Qt5Multimedia.dll
Qt5Multimediad.dll
Qt5MultimediaQuick_p.dll
Qt5MultimediaQuick_pd.dll
Qt5MultimediaWidgets.dll
Qt5MultimediaWidgetsd.dll
Qt5Network.dll
Qt5Networkd.dll
Qt5OpenGL.dll
Qt5OpenGLd.dll
Qt5PrintSupport.dll
Qt5PrintSupportd.dll
Qt5Qml.dll
Qt5Qmld.dll
Qt5Quick.dll
Qt5Quickd.dll
Qt5QuickParticles.dll
Qt5QuickParticlesd.dll
Qt5QuickTest.dll
Qt5QuickTestd.dll
Qt5Script.dll
Qt5Scriptd.dll
Qt5ScriptTools.dll
Qt5ScriptToolsd.dll
Qt5Sensors.dll
Qt5Sensorsd.dll
Qt5SerialPort.dll
Qt5SerialPortd.dll
Qt5Sql.dll
Qt5Sqld.dll
Qt5Svg.dll
Qt5Svgd.dll
Qt5Test.dll
Qt5Testd.dll
Qt5V8.dll
Qt5V8d.dll
Qt5Widgets.dll
Qt5Widgetsd.dll
Qt5Xml.dll
Qt5Xmld.dll
Qt5XmlPatterns.dll
Qt5XmlPatternsd.dll@

No errors during building...

altera_2011

From a helpful developer on IRC:

This is a bug with shadow building on Windows. Building webkit in place seems to work.

altera_2011

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altera_2011

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altera_2011

OK finally managed to do a 5.1 Alpha shadow build. The biggest issue that was causing webkit not to build was a missing path to gnuwin32\bin inside the source tree. Adding that manually makes things work.

@set PATH=C:\Qt\5.1-a\src\gnuwin32;%PATH%@

My config:

@..\src\configure -icu -mp -nomake tests -nomake demos -nomake examples -openssl -angle -I C:\Qt\5.1-a\icu-w32\include -I C:/Qt/5.1-a/openssl-1.0.1c-x86/inc32 -L C:/Qt/5.1-a/icu-w32\lib -L C:/Qt/5.1-a/openssl-1.0.1c-x86/out32dll -prefix [PERCENT]CD[PERCENT]\qtbase -opensource -platform win32-msvc2010 @

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You'll get a qmldeclarative related error for a not-found module. Simply go into qtdeclarative/src/qmldevtools and type

@nmake release@

Go back up and continue the build. If you built with ICU you also manually need to place the ICU libraries into the qtbase\bin directory.

After all that you'll end up with a fully built release.

rawberg

I ran into a similar issue on OSX 10.8.2. The WebKit widget works but QtWebkit 3.0 does not. Application log says: "QtWebKit" is not installed.

altera_2011

I don't believe these are related. One way to check is to keep a very close eye on the compilation when webkit is building. It does it's requirements check in the middle of the whole Qt compile. Alternatively you could compile QtWebkit again by going into that directory and running make (or whatever you use).

The issue above is specifically windows related though.