Unable to build static version of Qt 5.15.2

[robertwilliamallen]

I am trying to build qt-everywhere-src-5.15.2 statically but am getting a bunch of errors.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Download https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.15/5.15.2/single/
2. Unzip and cd into directory
3. Run:

./configure -static

Here's some of the output:

qt-everywhere-src-5.15.2/qtbase/include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/global/qfloat16.h:300:7: error: ‘numeric_limits’ is not a class template
  300 | class numeric_limits<QT_PREPEND_NAMESPACE(qfloat16)> : public numeric_limits<float>

[Christian Ehrlicher]

What MSVC version do you use?

[robertwilliamallen]

@Christian-Ehrlicher said in Unable to build static version of Qt 5.15.2:

MSVC

I'm not sure. Where would I find that info?

[jsulm]

@robertwilliamallen said in Unable to build static version of Qt 5.15.2:

Where would I find that info?

What version of Visual Studio did you install?

[robertwilliamallen]

@jsulm I don't have Visual Studio installed. I am working on Ubuntu 22.

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Ok, it looked like an error from MSVC and you did not tell us before what OS and compiler you're using.

What gcc version doe you use?

/edit: maybe this is your problem: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/330713

[robertwilliamallen]

@Christian-Ehrlicher
gcc (Ubuntu 11.2.0-19ubuntu1) 11.2.0

[Christian Ehrlicher]

So apply the patch in my links since it's for gcc11 and up.

[robertwilliamallen]

@Christian-Ehrlicher Will try and report back. Thanks!

[robertwilliamallen]

@Christian-Ehrlicher I have never applied a patch and not sure how to do that. Is there a guide somewhere I can follow?

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Manually adding two include statements in two files shouldn't be that hard

[robertwilliamallen]

@Christian-Ehrlicher Yep. I figured as much after I asked. So that is done and it seemed to get further in the compilation but I'm still getting errors:

Creating qmake...
........................................In file included from /home/robert/Documents/qt-everywhere-src-5.15.2/qtbase/src/corelib/text/qbytearray.cpp:43:
/home/robert/Documents/qt-everywhere-src-5.15.2/qtbase/src/corelib/text/qbytearraymatcher.h: In static member function ‘static QStaticByteArrayMatcherBase::Skiptable QStaticByteArrayMatcherBase::generate(const char*, uint)’:
/home/robert/Documents/qt-everywhere-src-5.15.2/qtbase/src/corelib/text/qbytearraymatcher.h:103:38: error: ‘numeric_limits’ is not a member of ‘std’
  103 |         const auto uchar_max = (std::numeric_limits<uchar>::max)();
      |                                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/robert/Documents/qt-everywhere-src-5.15.2/qtbase/src/corelib/text/qbytearraymatcher.h:103:58: error: expected primary-expression before ‘>’ token
  103 |         const auto uchar_max = (std::numeric_limits<uchar>::max)();
      |                                                          ^
/home/robert/Documents/qt-everywhere-src-5.15.2/qtbase/src/corelib/text/qbytearraymatcher.h:103:61: error: ‘::max’ has not been declared; did you mean ‘std::max’?
  103 |         const auto uchar_max = (std::numeric_limits<uchar>::max)();
      |                                                             ^~~
      |                                                             std::max
In file included from /usr/include/c++/11/algorithm:62,
                 from /home/robert/Documents/qt-everywhere-src-5.15.2/qtbase/include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/global/qglobal.h:142,
                 from /home/robert/Documents/qt-everywhere-src-5.15.2/qtbase/include/QtCore/qglobal.h:1,
                 from /home/robert/Documents/qt-everywhere-src-5.15.2/qtbase/include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/thread/qatomic.h:41,
                 from /home/robert/Documents/qt-everywhere-src-5.15.2/qtbase/include/QtCore/qatomic.h:1,
                 from /home/robert/Documents/qt-everywhere-src-5.15.2/qtbase/include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/tools/qrefcount.h:43,
                 from /home/robert/Documents/qt-everywhere-src-5.15.2/qtbase/include/QtCore/qrefcount.h:1,
                 from /home/robert/Documents/qt-everywhere-src-5.15.2/qtbase/src/corelib/text/qbytearray.h:44,
                 from /home/robert/Documents/qt-everywhere-src-5.15.2/qtbase/src/corelib/text/qbytearray.cpp:42:
/usr/include/c++/11/bits/stl_algo.h:3467:5: note: ‘std::max’ declared here
 3467 |     max(initializer_list<_Tp> __l, _Compare __comp)
      |     ^~~
gmake: *** [Makefile:350: qbytearray.o] Error 1

[Christian Ehrlicher]

As you can see the compiler complains again about numeric_limits so add this include there too.

[robertwilliamallen]

@Christian-Ehrlicher Added #include <limits> to qbytearraymatcher.h and it worked. Thanks for your help! Just getting into Qt and definitely feeling the learning curve.

[papaya]

@robertwilliamallen It works,good job!!!

[yudingyuan]

@robertwilliamallen thanks

[brant_luo]

@papaya said in Unable to build static version of Qt 5.15.2:

It works,good job!!!

[CyberCrisis]

I am using Qt5.12.6 and I was getting the same error. While attempting this solution I noticed that qglobal.h is included in all these files mentioned, so I added limits include to the __cplusplus check like this and it worked:

#ifdef __cplusplus
#  include <type_traits>
#  include <limits>
#  include <cstddef>
#  include <utility>
#endif

[otaolafr]

@Christian-Ehrlicher Hello,
is there anywhere we can ask for the files to be updated? the ones in the https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.15/5.15.2/single/
still have this issue I struggled to compile it until I found this post by chance.... would be great to rectify this for other future people out there....

[SGaist]

@otaolafr Hi,

If you are building from source anyway, you should download a more recent version such as 5.15.11. See the content of the 5.15 releases folder.