Static Qt 6.3.0 RC cross compile on Ubuntu 20.04 for Windows

squinky86

I am trying to upgrade my appveyor script to build Qt 6 (https://ci.appveyor.com/project/squinky86/stigqter/builds/43153896).

The build is failing, so I created a clean Ubuntu 20.04 VM and did the following:

add-apt-repository ppa:rncbc/qt6.3-static-focal
apt-get install -y  gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64 g++-mingw-w64-x86-64 qtbase6-static

CMake profile at /tmp/profile.cmake:

set(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME Windows)
set(TOOLCHAIN_PREFIX x86_64-w64-mingw32)
set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER ${TOOLCHAIN_PREFIX}-gcc)
set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER ${TOOLCHAIN_PREFIX}-g++)
set(CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER ${TOOLCHAIN_PREFIX}-gfortran)
set(CMAKE_RC_COMPILER ${TOOLCHAIN_PREFIX}-windres)
set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PROGRAM NEVER)
set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY ONLY)
set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE ONLY)
set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32 /)

OpenSSL is configured and built:

pushd /tmp && wget https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-3.0.2.tar.gz && tar -zxf openssl-3.0.2.tar.gz && popd
pushd /tmp/openssl-3.0.2 && ./Configure mingw64 no-shared no-asm no-err no-tests CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-w64-mingw32- && make -j3 && popd

Using posix threads:

update-alternatives --set x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-posix && update-alternatives --set x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++-posix

Qt 6.3.0 rc goes through the configure process successfully but then fails to build at about the 80% mark (note: if you don't use the cmake update from travis-ci, you can add "-DQT_FORCE_MIN_CMAKE_VERSION_FOR_BUILDING_QT=3.16" and get to the same issue):

pushd /tmp/qtbase-everywhere-src-6.3.0-rc && ./configure -prefix /tmp/qt -no-feature-sql-odbc -sql-sqlite -platform linux-g++-64 -qt-host-path /opt/qt6.3-static -xplatform win32-g++ -device-option CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-w64-mingw32- -release -opengl desktop -mp -static -static-runtime -no-shared -nomake examples -no-icu -optimize-size -openssl-linked -- -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=/tmp/openssl-3.0.2 -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/tmp/profile.cmake
make #want to build in 1 thread for debugging the build process

Results:

[ 84%] Building CXX object src/plugins/platforms/windows/CMakeFiles/QWindowsIntegrationPlugin.dir/qwindowscontext.cpp.obj
/tmp/qtbase-everywhere-src-6.3.0-rc/src/plugins/platforms/windows/qwindowscontext.cpp: In function ‘int windowDpiAwareness(HWND)’:
/tmp/qtbase-everywhere-src-6.3.0-rc/src/plugins/platforms/windows/qwindowscontext.cpp:155:65: error: ‘GetWindowDpiAwarenessContext’ was not declared in this scope
  155 |  return static_cast<int>(GetAwarenessFromDpiAwarenessContext(GetWindowDpiAwarenessContext(hwnd)));
      |                                                              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

/tmp/qtbase-everywhere-src-6.3.0-rc/src/plugins/platforms/windows/qwindowscontext.cpp:155:29: error: ‘GetAwarenessFromDpiAwarenessContext’ was not declared in this scope
  155 |     return static_cast<int>(GetAwarenessFromDpiAwarenessContext(GetWindowDpiAwarenessContext(hwnd)));
      |                             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/tmp/qtbase-everywhere-src-6.3.0-rc/src/plugins/platforms/windows/qwindowscontext.cpp: In function ‘bool enableNonClientDpiScaling(HWND)’:
/tmp/qtbase-everywhere-src-6.3.0-rc/src/plugins/platforms/windows/qwindowscontext.cpp:163:18: error: ‘EnableNonClientDpiScaling’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘enableNonClientDpiScaling’?
  163 |         result = EnableNonClientDpiScaling(hwnd) != FALSE;
      |                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                  enableNonClientDpiScaling
/tmp/qtbase-everywhere-src-6.3.0-rc/src/plugins/platforms/windows/qwindowscontext.cpp: In member function ‘void QWindowsContext::setProcessDpiV2Awareness()’:
/tmp/qtbase-everywhere-src-6.3.0-rc/src/plugins/platforms/windows/qwindowscontext.cpp:422:21: error: ‘SetProcessDpiAwarenessContext’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘SetProcessDpiAwareness’?
  422 |     const BOOL ok = SetProcessDpiAwarenessContext(DPI_AWARENESS_CONTEXT_PER_MONITOR_AWARE_V2);
      |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                     SetProcessDpiAwareness
/tmp/qtbase-everywhere-src-6.3.0-rc/src/plugins/platforms/windows/qwindowscontext.cpp: In static member function ‘static bool QWindowsContext::systemParametersInfo(unsigned int, unsigned int, void*, unsigned int)’:
/tmp/qtbase-everywhere-src-6.3.0-rc/src/plugins/platforms/windows/qwindowscontext.cpp:969:11: error: ‘SystemParametersInfoForDpi’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘SystemParametersInfoW’?
  969 |         ? SystemParametersInfoForDpi(action, param, out, 0, dpi)
      |           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |           SystemParametersInfoW
make[2]: *** [src/plugins/platforms/windows/CMakeFiles/QWindowsIntegrationPlugin.dir/build.make:168: src/plugins/platforms/windows/CMakeFiles/QWindowsIntegrationPlugin.dir/qwindowscontext.cpp.obj] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:9183: src/plugins/platforms/windows/CMakeFiles/QWindowsIntegrationPlugin.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:141: all] Error 2

I do not have this issue with Ubuntu 21.10 or 22.04, but Travis-CI's latest supported infrastructure is Ubuntu 20.04. This occurs with ninja or with the makefiles, with cmake update or with vanilla cmake from ubuntu 20.04.

squinky86

Qt 6 requires MingW-8 support in Ubuntu. Adding this PPA (https://launchpad.net/~cybermax-dexter/+archive/ubuntu/mingw-w64-backport) fixed the issue.