MacOS Static Build 5.15.1 Problem

Sam Thomsen

Building 5.15.1 static from source for MacOS and getting the following error when building libqtwebenginecoreapi.a

Project ERROR: Missing archive files from linking pri
make[3]: *** [sub-core_module-pro-make_first] Error 3
make[2]: *** [sub-core-make_first] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-src-make_first] Error 2
make: *** [module-qtwebengine-make_first] Error 2

Commands:

../source/configure \
        -static \
        -static-runtime \
        -webengine-proprietary-codecs \
        -commercial \
        -confirm-license \
        -nomake tests \
        -nomake examples \
        -debug-and-release

make

Very similar to the problem reported by Bruh for 5.14.1: Qt WebEngine problems during Qt 5.14.1 static build from source. I followed pinebit's advice and added the -webengine-proprietary-codecs option, but it didn't seem to help.

Sam Thomsen

Apparently, you now have to explicitly skip webengine when building static Qt libraries. I'm quite sure this was not true last time I built them, which was version 5.14.2.

So the correct configure command for me should have been:

../source/configure \
        -static \
        -commercial \
        -confirm-license \
        -nomake tests \
        -nomake examples \
        -skip qtwebengine \
        -debug-and-release