Ninja error building Qt 6.5 from source

[Zanth]

Hello,

Hopefully someone can help with what should be an easy problem (that has me stumped):

I have a new MacBook computer running Ventura (macOS 13.4.1).

I have installed:

• Xcode 14.3.1

• MacPorts

• cmake v3.24.4 (sudo port install cmake)

• ninja v1.11.1 (sudo port install ninja)

• nodejs v18.17.0 (via a package)

• I copied and decompressed/untarred the Qt 6.5 source tar.xz file

Path was updated to include /usr/local/bin where the above components are found.

Running configure there are a couple of minor warnings.

But running: cmake --build . --parallel
generates this error: "ninja: error: loading 'build.ninja': No such file or directory"

I do not see a build.ninja file installed at the source location.
However, there is a build.ninja.tmp... file that is 0 bytes in length.

TIA !!!
Zanth

[SGaist]

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Which configuration options did you use ?

[Zanth]

@SGaist

Hi,

Thank you ... it is good to be here!

None at all I believe. I simply followed the instructions in: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/macos-building.html
and entered:

cd /tmp/qt-everywhere-src-6.5.2
./configure

[Zanth]

@Zanth

I should add one thing that may be relevant: After the configure finished I was left with on a blank line and was not returned to the command line.
I tried typing the usual things:
save
exit
quit
bye
help

... but got no response. I finally hit ^C to exit the utility. Perhaps this is the problem?

[JoeCFD]

@Zanth did you install ninja?
which ninja?

In addition to Xcode, you will need to make sure you have the following dependencies in your path PATH.

CMake (>=3.16, >= 3.18.4 for Ninja Multi-Config, >= 3.21.1 for static Qt builds)
Ninja

[Zanth]

@Zanth

Solved ... Source directory cannot be on a network mounted drive!

Hopefully, this is of some help to others in the future.

[Zanth]

@JoeCFD

Thanks for your message ... yes ... I had installed Ninja v1.11.1 prior to the configuration.
Got it working by using a locally mounted drive (see below).