Solved Cannot build Qt 5.11.0 due to missing wayland libraries (On ubuntu 16.04)

[RTbecard]

When running make with the following configuration:

sudo ./configure -v -static -prefix "/home/james/Qt/5.11.0_Static" -qt-zlib -qt-pcre -qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -qt-freetype -qt-xcb -make libs -nomake tools -nomake examples -nomake tests -opensource -confirm-license -egl -opengl es2 -skip wayland

I get the following errors during build:

/usr/bin/ld.gold: error: cannot find -lqwayland-generic
/usr/bin/ld.gold: error: cannot find -lqwayland-xcomposite-egl
/usr/bin/ld.gold: error: cannot find -lqwayland-xcomposite-glx
/usr/bin/ld.gold: error: cannot find -lqt-plugin-wayland-egl
/usr/bin/ld.gold: error: cannot find -lbradient
/usr/bin/ld.gold: error: cannot find -livi-shell
/usr/bin/ld.gold: error: cannot find -lQt5WaylandClient
.obj/qml_plugin_import.o:qml_plugin_import.cpp:function _GLOBAL__sub_I_qml_plugin_import.cpp: error: undefined reference to 'qt_static_plugin_QWaylandEglPlatformIntegrationPlugin()'
.obj/qml_plugin_import.o:qml_plugin_import.cpp:function _GLOBAL__sub_I_qml_plugin_import.cpp: error: undefined reference to 'qt_static_plugin_QWaylandIntegrationPlugin()'
.obj/qml_plugin_import.o:qml_plugin_import.cpp:function _GLOBAL__sub_I_qml_plugin_import.cpp: error: undefined reference to 'qt_static_plugin_QWaylandXCompositeEglPlatformIntegrationPlugin()'
.obj/qml_plugin_import.o:qml_plugin_import.cpp:function _GLOBAL__sub_I_qml_plugin_import.cpp: error: undefined reference to 'qt_static_plugin_QWaylandXCompositeGlxPlatformIntegrationPlugin()'
.obj/qml_plugin_import.o:qml_plugin_import.cpp:function _GLOBAL__sub_I_qml_plugin_import.cpp: error: undefined reference to 'qt_static_plugin_QWaylandEglClientBufferPlugin()'
.obj/qml_plugin_import.o:qml_plugin_import.cpp:function _GLOBAL__sub_I_qml_plugin_import.cpp: error: undefined reference to 'qt_static_plugin_QWaylandBradientDecorationPlugin()'
.obj/qml_plugin_import.o:qml_plugin_import.cpp:function _GLOBAL__sub_I_qml_plugin_import.cpp: error: undefined reference to 'qt_static_plugin_QWaylandIviShellIntegrationPlugin()'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:122: recipe for target '../../bin/qml' failed
make[3]: *** [../../bin/qml] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/james/Qt5.11.0/5.11.0/Src/qtdeclarative/tools/qml'
Makefile:126: recipe for target 'sub-qml-make_first' failed
make[2]: *** [sub-qml-make_first] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/james/Qt5.11.0/5.11.0/Src/qtdeclarative/tools'
Makefile:72: recipe for target 'sub-tools-make_first' failed
make[1]: *** [sub-tools-make_first] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/james/Qt5.11.0/5.11.0/Src/qtdeclarative'
Makefile:360: recipe for target 'module-qtdeclarative-make_first' failed
make: *** [module-qtdeclarative-make_first] Error 2

It looks like even after assigning -skip wayland, I still have dependancies for it. Does anyone know what the issue is here? My understanding is that wayland is only on Ubnutu from 17.04. I don't really want to manually build wayland on my machine, but rather just skip it.

I'm using Elementary OS (Loki) which is based on Ubuntu 16.04.

[SGaist]

Hi,

Did you add -skip wayland after the build failed or did you do a completely new build ?

[RTbecard]

@SGaist I ran sudo make clean, then ran configure and make again.

[SGaist]

I would do an out of source build so if there's trouble with the build you can nuke it start from fresh without possible artefact affecting the detection and build process.

[Edit: Original message in the wrong thread... SGaist]

[RTbecard]

@SGaist Yup, that was it! I redownloaded the source code, ran an out-of-source build, and the error is now gone and make ran all the way through with no issues.

Thanks for the quick help!