Designer.app not built when compiling Qt5 for macos x86_64 from arm64 host

sparker

I'm trying to compile Qt5 for macos x86_64 from an arm64 host (M2). For the most part it compiles, but several things are left out even though configure says "Yes" they will be built (e.g. Designer.app).

Configure line:

../configure -debug-and-release -opensource -confirm-license -nomake examples -nomake tests -prefix /tools/qt5/5.15.10-x86_64 -device-option QMAKE_APPLE_DEVICE_ARCHS=x86_64

Configure output:

Qt Tools:
  Qt Assistant ........................... yes
  Qt Designer ............................ yes
  Qt Distance Field Generator ............ yes
  kmap2qmap .............................. yes
  Qt Linguist ............................ yes
  Mac Deployment Tool .................... yes
  makeqpf ................................ yes
  pixeltool .............................. yes
  qdbus .................................. yes
  qev .................................... yes
  Qt Attributions Scanner ................ yes
  qtdiag ................................. yes
  qtpaths ................................ yes
  qtplugininfo ........................... yes
  Windows deployment tool ................ no
  WinRT Runner Tool ...................... no
Qt Tools:
  QDoc ................................... no

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Aren't you missing all the "host" tools ?

sparker

@SGaist I suppose that's a better way of phrasing it. :)

SGaist

It's an educated guess: I think that you are triggering the cross-compilation detection and thus the host tools are not built as there's little sense to have them for to be built for what is usually a target device. Which version of Qt 5 are you building ? Also, why not build it for both architectures ?

sparker

@SGaist Hey thanks for responding! I'm using opensource 5.15.10. From what I gather (and tried), I couldn't build universal binaries (assuming that's what you mean by both archs). I think this works out-of-the-box for Qt6 though.