Web engine not installing or downloading properly

[Aronox]

Hi so i am integrating browser support in my app but the problem is that web engine is not actually installing. On my mac the webengine module is 1.88GB

but on my windows machine, webengine is 0 bytes!

subsequently when i try to use it my codes on the windows machine does module not found. i did try to deselect the module in Qt
maintenance tool and then reselect it later but it was of no help. Anyone got any suggestions? i would very much love doing this without having to uninstall Qt or having to build the webengine from source by my self.

[Axel Spoerl]

Oh, that’s probably a broken mirror.
Can you try another mirror?

[Aronox]

Ok but how do I do that?

Also thank you very much for your time

[Axel Spoerl]

By reading the documentation and following the instructions.

[Aronox]

@Axel-Spoerl

so I found this in the maintenance tool:

can you please explain it to me? Do I need to use MS visual studio if i want to use the webengine module on windows? and it won't work in Qt creator on windows?

[jsulm]

@Aronox Yes, you need Microsoft compiler for Chromium.

[Aronox]

@jsulm thank you for your response.

So can I use qmake in Visual Studio? or do i need to switch to cmake?

[jsulm]

You don't have to use Visual Studio at all. In fact you do not even have to install it - MS Build Tools is enough. QtCreator will detect MS compiler if you install either Visual Studio or Build Tools.

[Aronox]

@jsulm oh so i just have to switch the compiler form MinGW to MS Build Tools?

[jsulm]

Well, you also have to install Qt for Microsoft compiler

[Aronox]

@jsulm Sorry I didn't get it 😅. I'm super new to this. is it this one?

but I have 6.7 installed not 6.7.1

[jsulm]

@Aronox said in Web engine not installing or downloading properly:

is it this one?

Yes

"but I have 6.7 installed not 6.7.1" - why not upgrade to 6.7.1? But you should also have MSVC for 6.7.0.

[Aronox]

@jsulm one more thing:

this is a screenshot of Qt installed on my friend's windows 11 machine. He has the module which is 6.5GB. Does it mean that for me, I cannot have the module with windows 10 but on windows 11 it is possible? my main problem is that webengine module is 0 bytes on my windows 10 machine.

again thank you very much, you don't know how long I have been trying to fix this.

[Aronox]

@jsulm unfortunately I don't have any MSVC option in the 6.7.0 version

[jsulm]

I doubt it has anything to do with Windows version. If it shows 0 bytes then I guess the installation failed.

[Aronox]

@jsulm I have tried deselecting (removing the component) and then reselect it after launching the maintenance tool. It stays at 0 bytes. Should I try by completely removing Qt and doing a reinstallation? And after I get the module installed, I still have to use MSVC instead of MinGW to build, right?

[jsulm]

@Aronox said in Web engine not installing or downloading properly:

I still have to use MSVC instead of MinGW to build

If you want to use Qt Web Engine then yes.

You can try to uninstall everything and install again.

[Aronox]

@jsulm Hello !

Just wanted to update you that i got it working after installing MSVC. But now i have another problem.

The browser is freakingly slow,

but the same program on my mac has way better reasults:

so do you know anything about this? what do i need to optimize it?

[SGaist]

Hi,

Are you using a debug or a release build ?

[Aronox]

@SGaist on both systems i am using debug build.