Qt5.11.3 build fails for QtWebEngine on MSVC 2017 64bit

[nest_kds]

Building Qt5.11.3 from sources under MSVC 2017 64bit looks ok except for QtWebEngine

NMAKE: fatal error U1073 do not know how to make QtWebEngineCore.stamp

Building is done through x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for MSVS 2017 using a bat file with general configure and jom

configure -confirm-license -release -nomake examples -nomake tests -openssl -opensource -platform win32-msvc2017 -prefix C:\Qt\5.11.3-x64 -I C:\openssl\1.1.1b\include -L C:\openssl\1.1.1b\lib

Any help is appreciated
Chromium? Ninja? What to check?

[nest_kds]

I returned to the problem, called qmake directly for qtwebengine and got the following:

...
[1/1] Regenerating ninja files
...
[1/1] Regenerating ninja files
ninja: error: manifest 'build.ninja' still dirty after 100 tries

Command '[ 'C:/temp/qt-build/build_qtwebengine/src/3rdparty/ninja/ninja.exe', '-C', 'C:\\temp\\qt-build\\build_qtwebengine\\src\\3rdparty\\chromium\\tools\\gn\\out\\Release',  '-w', 'dupbuilder=err', 'gn']' returned non-zero exit status 1
Building gn manually in a temporary directory  for bootstrapping...
Building gn using itself to out\Release...
Project ERROR: GN build error!
jom: C:\temp\qt-build\build_qtwebengine\src\buildtools\Makefile [sub-gn-pro-make_first] Error 3
jom: C:\temp\qt-build\build_qtwebengine\src\Makefile [sub-buildtools-make_first] Error 2
jom: C:\temp\qt-build\build_qtwebengine\Makefile [sub-src-make_first] Error 2

Does it tell more now?

[nest_kds]

going into qtwebengine directory and calling jom results on ninja stopping build afer some step

ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

[jsulm]

@nest_kds said in Qt5.11.3 build fails for QtWebEngine on MSVC 2017 64bit:

ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed

What's before this line (there should be actual error)?

[nest_kds]

Nothing about error

[xxxx/NNNN]
including..
...
including...
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

[nest_kds]

Now, I'm more than sure that this is all about not enough memory on my HDD.
Is there an official requirement for free disk space needed for building QtWebEngine that I missed somewhere?

[JonB]

@nest_kds

not enough memory on my HDD

:) It probably doesn't say anywhere. You could try telling us how much disk free space you do have: if it's 100K it won't be enough, and if it's 100MB [100GB!!] it will be! You could even tell us how much memory you have.

ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

Try ninja -v for verbose output.

[nest_kds]

@JonB said in Qt5.11.3 build fails for QtWebEngine on MSVC 2017 64bit:

:) It probably doesn't say anywhere. You could try telling us how much disk free space you do have: if it's 100K it won't be enough, and if it's 100MB it will be! You could even tell us how much memory you have.

Here it is: I had had about 21 Gb of free memory and when the error happened the free memory was less than 100 M.

[SGaist]

Hi,

From the Chromium build on Windows instruction page:

System requirements

A 64-bit Intel machine with at least 8GB of RAM. More than 16GB is highly recommended.
At least 100GB of free disk space on an NTFS-formatted hard drive. FAT32 will not work, as some of the Git packfiles are larger than 4GB.
An appropriate version of Visual Studio, as described below.
Windows 7 or newer.

While you should not be worried about the git related stuff, the free disk space is likely to apply.

[JonB]

@SGaist

At least 100GB of free disk space

Jeepers-creepers! :) We put men on The Moon with about 64K! :)

[jsulm]

@JonB said in Qt5.11.3 build fails for QtWebEngine on MSVC 2017 64bit:

We put men on The Moon with about 64K! :)

That wasn't Google :-)

[nest_kds]

@SGaist Thanks for the confirmation of my guess.
Will try to free another 100Gb and give it another try again

[nest_kds]

The error stays on. Even with 100Gb of free space

[nest_kds]

So, 1st pass was NOK (configure plus jom and install)
Second pass (jom plus install) worked!!!
Don't know whether it is due or against Notre Dame de Paris (((