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?

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@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