Installing Qt 5.4 dev packages in Travis CI

mkollaro

I want to set up CI for my project that uses Qt 5.4, so I need some ppa for Ubuntu 12.04 with dev packages, or some way to install the SDK without human intervention.

See http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/build-configuration/ for more info on Travis.

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Do you mean what's described "here":http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/installing-dependencies/ ?

mkollaro

Thanks :)

Yes, that's exactly it.

SGaist

You're welcome !

Since you have Travis running, please update the thread title prepending [solved] so other forum users may know a solution has been found :)

mkollaro

By "that's exactly it", I meant "that are the docs that describe installing deps on Travis". I know how to set up Travis, my problem is that I don't have Qt 5.4 dev packages. The ubuntu ppa I found so far has only Qt 5.0, and the SDK installer requires that you click on some buttons, making it unsuitable for this.

Sorry for the misunderstanding, I didn't realize how my answer would be interpreted.

SGaist

In that case why not just use git to clone Qt's repositories ?

mkollaro

Yes, I could clone Qt and compile it in Travis, but that would make the CI jobs very slow and CPU intensive. Travis doesn't keep state between builds, so it would have to be compiled every time.

I could perhaps also create my own packages, but that would take a lot of time on my part, and I'm not sure if it's worth it. Are there really no existing dev packages for 5.4?

SGaist

Maybe talking with the responsible of "this":https://launchpad.net/~beineri/+archive/ubuntu/opt-qt54-trusty might help

pbe

Are there any news on this topic? I'd also need Qt 5.4 on Travis. ^_^

equalsraf

This seems to be stuck on multiple fronts:

Ubuntu precise lacks the packages, there are a couple of ppa: flying around e.g. ubuntu-sdk-tem
Keep in mind that the current ppa/packages need to be whitelisted to work in the new Travis container infrastructure (here) - added a request please add more for missing qt development packages
Sadly the Qt installers dont work for a headless installation yet - but this is essential for deployment in Windows continuous integration systems.

Travis supports OSX, how do we deploy there? No building is no an option.

True we can just tar an existing installation and host somewhere for CI deployments. But I kind of miss having tarballs of the Qt releases :)

equalsraf

Just in case anyone is interested semaphoreci.com is a Travis alternative that runs Ubuntu 14.04, that should make it easier to find PPA sources for Qt 5.4.

agarny

I just came across this thread while searching some updated information on Travis CI + Qt 5.5. Anyway, because I already use Travis CI + Qt on Linux and OS X, I thought I would share my experience...

Linux: Travis CI still uses Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (rather than Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, which is what I would have expected and liked to see). Regarding Qt, the only ppa I have found is for Qt 5.4.1 (see here. Unfortunately (although understandably), Stephan Binner, the author of the ppa, doesn't seem to provide newer versions of Qt for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (as can be seen here), so we are effectively limited to Qt 5.4.1 on Linux on Travis CI.

OS X: I personally use brew to install whatever version of Qt 5.x that is supported by brew.

.travis.yml: personally, I set things up as shown here.

agarny

FWIW, I have contacted Stephan Binner and he's currently working on getting a PPA for Qt 5.5, and he reckons it should be ok to get one for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (and therefore Travis CI).

Regarding OS X on Travis CI, I have seen that there is ongoing work on getting brew to support Qt 5.5, so it should be matter of days at most for OS X.

pbe

I finally managed to get QT5.4 with qmake on Ubuntu 12.04 up and running on Travis!
https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/blob/develop/.travis.yml

Thank you for the good leads, @agarny!

agarny

You are welcome. Otherwise, you may be interested to know that Stephan Binner (the person behind the PPA) has released a Qt 5.5 version of his PPA that can be used with Travis CI. However, it doesn't include QtWebEngine since it apparently requires gcc 4.7 or above while Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ships with gcc 4.6 only.

hipersayan_x

In case other people are struggling with the same problem, i left here the template for using latest version of Qt with Travis:

sudo: required
dist: trusty

before_install:
  - sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:beineri/opt-qt551-trusty
  - sudo apt-get update -qq

install:
  - sudo apt-get -y install qt55[QTPACKAGE]

script:
  - source /opt/qt55/bin/qt55-env.sh
  - /opt/qt55/bin/qmake
  - make

In case Travis upgrade their build system, just change the dist: trusty to whatever distro they upgrade to.