QtWebengine 5.12.2 - Compiling from source (Mac OS X) with webengine-proprietary-codecs not working

[johnlamericain]

Hi everyone,

I've been trying to compile the new version of Qt 5.12.2 on Mac OS X with the option webengine-proprietary-codecs, however, I didn't succeed to pass it to any configure/qmake command (I'm using qt everywhere sources)

I'm passing it to the top level configure:

OPENSSL_LIBS='-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib -lssl -lcrypto' ./configure -webengine-proprietary-codecs -opensource -nomake examples -confirm-license -openssl-linked -I /usr/local/opt/openssl/include

But the answer is:

ERROR: Unknown command line option '-webengine-proprietary-codecs'.

When I do a --help on configure, I can see it as one option available.

I also tried to go to the qtwebengine subfolder and do:

../qtbase/bin/qmake -- -webengine-proprietary-codecs

But the answer is:

Project ERROR: You cannot configure qtwebengine separately within a top-level build.

So why the top-level configure doesn't accept the option?

I read a lot of things online, they are mostly about Windows and previous version of Qt, don't know if anything changed recently.

Thanks for your help,

[maximus]

try this syntax

./configure -opensource -confirm-license -release -webengine-pepper-plugins -webengine-proprietary-codecs -no-openssl -securetransport -prefix /Users/mblais2/DEV2/v5.12.2

[maximus]

here is the full procedure in mac

git clone git://code.qt.io/qt/qt5.git
cd qt5
--git checkout tag version, i.e : 
git checkout v5.11.3
perl init-repository --module-subset=all
 

--configure, use another folder prefix on the same level as qt source
./configure -opensource -confirm-license -release -webengine-pepper-plugins -webengine-proprietary-codecs -no-openssl -securetransport -prefix /Users/mblais2/DEV2/v5.12.2


make
make install

[johnlamericain]

Thank you @maximus, it worked very well with the git repository. I don't really know why it didn't work with the source for the archive but it doesn't really matter.

I can confirm that the topic is resolved and this option worked as expected with this method.