Unable to compile Qt because of missing litehtml
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Hello,
On my Debian 12.2 system, I am attempting to compile Qt. I have installed all the dependencies as outlined in the documentation at https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/build-sources.html.
After that, I executed the following commands:
sourceDir=/opt/foo/qt_source buildDir=/opt/foo/qt_build installDir=/opt/foo/qt6.6.1-gcc-deb12 mkdir -p "$sourceDir" "$buildDir" "$installDir" # get qt cd "$sourceDir" wget https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/6.6/6.6.1/single/qt-everywhere-src-6.6.1.tar.xz tar xf qt-everywhere-src-6.6.1.tar.xz # configure cd "$buildDir" configureScript=${sourceDir}/qt-everywhere-src-6.6.1/configure $configureScript -prefix "$installDir" -release -sql-psql #build cmake --build . --parallelHowever, my build encountered an error with the following message:
[44/3358] Building CXX object qttools/src/assistant/qlitehtml/src/CMakeFiles/qlitehtml.dir/container_qpainter.cpp.o FAILED: qttools/src/assistant/qlitehtml/src/CMakeFiles/qlitehtml.dir/container_qpainter.cpp.o /usr/bin/c++ -DQLITEHTML_STATIC_LIBRARY -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII -DQT_NO_JAVA_STYLE_ITERATORS -DQT_RESTRICTED_CAST_FROM_ASCII -DQT_USE_QSTRINGBUILDER -DQT_WIDGETS_LIB -I/opt/foo/qt_build/qttools/src/assistant/qlitehtml/src/qlitehtml_autogen/include -I/opt/foo/qt_source/qt-everywhere-src-6.6.1/qttools/src/assistant/qlitehtml/src -I/opt/foo/qt_build/qtbase/include -I/opt/foo/qt_build/qtbase/include/QtWidgets -I/opt/foo/qt_build/qtbase/include/QtCore -I/opt/foo/qt_source/qt-everywhere-src-6.6.1/qtbase/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I/opt/foo/qt_build/qtbase/include/QtGui -DNDEBUG -O2 -fPIC -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -w -fPIC -std=c++17 -MD -MT qttools/src/assistant/qlitehtml/src/CMakeFiles/qlitehtml.dir/container_qpainter.cpp.o -MF qttools/src/assistant/qlitehtml/src/CMakeFiles/qlitehtml.dir/container_qpainter.cpp.o.d -o qttools/src/assistant/qlitehtml/src/CMakeFiles/qlitehtml.dir/container_qpainter.cpp.o -c /opt/foo/qt_source/qt-everywhere-src-6.6.1/qttools/src/assistant/qlitehtml/src/container_qpainter.cpp In file included from /opt/foo/qt_source/qt-everywhere-src-6.6.1/qttools/src/assistant/qlitehtml/src/container_qpainter.cpp:5: /opt/foo/qt_source/qt-everywhere-src-6.6.1/qttools/src/assistant/qlitehtml/src/container_qpainter_p.h:8:10: fatal error: litehtml.h: No such file or directory 8 | #include <litehtml.h> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. [49/3358] Building CXX object qttools/src/designer/src/components/lib/CMakeFiles/DesignerComponentsPrivate.dir/cmake_pch.hxx.gch ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.I have confirmed that I have the 'litehtml' packages installed:
$ apt install liblitehtml-dev liblitehtml0 liblitehtml-dev is already the newest version (0.6-1). liblitehtml0 is already the newest version (0.6-1).Do you have any ideas on what might be causing this issue and how to solve it?
Thank you for your help. -
$ ls -la /opt/foo/qt_source/qt-everywhere-src-6.6.1/qttools/src/assistant/qlitehtml/src/3rdparty/litehtml/include/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 20 12:56 litehtml -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 214 Nov 20 12:56 litehtml.h -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4118 Nov 20 12:56 master.css -
$ ls -la /opt/foo/qt_source/qt-everywhere-src-6.6.1/qttools/src/assistant/qlitehtml/src/3rdparty/litehtml/include/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 20 12:56 litehtml -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 214 Nov 20 12:56 litehtml.h -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4118 Nov 20 12:56 master.css@Tarae
So the include reported missing actually exists.
Is your build tree clean, or could it potentially contain stale legacy CMake files?Software Engineer
The Qt Company, Oslo -
@Tarae
So the include reported missing actually exists.
Is your build tree clean, or could it potentially contain stale legacy CMake files? -
@Tarae
So the include reported missing actually exists.
Is your build tree clean, or could it potentially contain stale legacy CMake files?@Axel-Spoerl before running the configure script my
$buildDirwas empty. -
@Axel-Spoerl , @Tarae
Where in what has been shown does anyqttools/src/assistant/qlitehtml/src/3rdparty/litehtml/includeappear on the include path, e.g. in a-I...option?@JonB
configureshould deal with that, and it apparently attempts to do so:-I/opt/foo/qt_build/qttools/src/assistant/qlitehtml/src/qlitehtml_autogen/includeAnd that's about where the include is located in my own toplevel build, which builds nicely. So
qttoolsisn't properly installed, broken or disturbed by legacy files in the build tree. If the error persists with a completely clean build tree, there might be a bug in the snapshot. -
@JonB
configureshould deal with that, and it apparently attempts to do so:-I/opt/foo/qt_build/qttools/src/assistant/qlitehtml/src/qlitehtml_autogen/includeAnd that's about where the include is located in my own toplevel build, which builds nicely. So
qttoolsisn't properly installed, broken or disturbed by legacy files in the build tree. If the error persists with a completely clean build tree, there might be a bug in the snapshot.@Axel-Spoerl my
/opt/foo/qt_build/qttools/src/assistant/qlitehtml/src/qlitehtml_autogen/includedirectory is empty. Should it include thelitehtml.hfile? Is it expected to be populated after running theconfigurescript, or is it not copied there until the actual build process? -
@Axel-Spoerl my
/opt/foo/qt_build/qttools/src/assistant/qlitehtml/src/qlitehtml_autogen/includedirectory is empty. Should it include thelitehtml.hfile? Is it expected to be populated after running theconfigurescript, or is it not copied there until the actual build process?@Tarae
At least, this is the location, where CMake tells the compiler to search for it.
Something is broken here, but I don't have a 6.6.1 build with qttools handy.Software Engineer
The Qt Company, Oslo -
@Tarae
At least, this is the location, where CMake tells the compiler to search for it.
Something is broken here, but I don't have a 6.6.1 build with qttools handy.@Axel-Spoerl
You could try to pass-Dlitehtml_DIR=/path/to/local/litehtmlto the compiler and see what it does. -
K KBentley57 referenced this topic on
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I know this thread is a few months old but my solution was to remove the liblitehtml-dev package from the system. Having this package installed appears to confuse the Qt6 build process (Qt 6.6.3 in my instance). Removing this package enabled me to successfully run the Qt6 build process using the internally provided litehtml library.
