[Solved]Building custom Qt from source

SGaist

@astodolski
Can you share the full configure line you are using and the build setup summary ?

@JKSH
Out of source is just so great, you should ;)

astodolski

@astodolski
Can you share the full configure line you are using and the build setup summary ?

@JKSH
Out of source is just so great, you should ;)

-debug-and-release
-opensource
-shared
-opengl
desktop
-nomake
examples
-nomake
tests
-no-icu
-no-angle
-no-style-windowsce
-no-style-windowsmobile
-mp
-platform
win32-msvc2013
-openssl
-I
C:\openssl-1.0.2d\include
-L
C:\openssl-1.0.2d\lib
-prefix
c:\qt\5.6\msvc2013
-saveconfig
light_cfg

astodolski

@JKSH said:

Assuming that you checked out the code to C:\Qt\git, use the following commands to clean your source tree:
> cd C:\Qt\git\
> git clean -dfx
> git submodule foreach "git clean -dfx"

WOW! That is amazingly faster than nmake clean. Thanks for that.

astodolski

@SGaist said:

It literally means build from another folder outside of Qt's source tree so basically:
cd qt_build
C:\Path\to\Qt\configure 
Indeed, the result is pretty much the same however It's generally faster (at least for me until now) to delete a folder than to recursively go through all Qt's modules and clean one after the other.

Looking at the batch file in the root folder, it looks as if that file does essentially the same thing. i.e configure.bat cd's to qtbase\configure

SGaist

Yes but it also triggers the build of the other modules, otherwise you will only build qtbase.

Can you try again with -openssl-linked ?

astodolski

@SGaist said:

Yes but it also triggers the build of the other modules, otherwise you will only build qtbase.

Can you try again with -openssl-linked ?

OK. So on my checked out build I have:
c:\Qt\qt5

You're suggesting:
cd c:\Qt\qt5
qtbase\configure

Is that correct?

There exists a configure script in both the root and the qtbase folder

SGaist

No, I'm suggesting:

cd C:\Qt\MyQt5Build
C:\Qt\qt5\configure.bat

astodolski

@SGaist said:

No, I'm suggesting:

cd C:\Qt\MyQt5Build
C:\Qt\qt5\configure.bat

So MyQt5Build is initially empty and is a target folder for the build correct? That's what you meant by shadow build?

SGaist

Yes, the same thing happening by default when you build a project with Qt Creator

JKSH

@astodolski said:

There exists a configure script in both the root and the qtbase folder

Do not use the script in qtbase directly. Only use the root script.

astodolski

Sweet success!. Cleaning the source tree using the git commands suggested as well as the proper level of path for the include folder for openssl worked. Thanks to ALL!