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init-repository is now implemented using CMake + .sh / .bat scripts.
The intent behind the change is not to require Perl to checkout and
build Qt, because it can be troublesome to acquire on Windows and it
can also lead to issues during builds due to CMake picking up a Perl
distribution-shipped compiler.
All previous options were ported over like
- module-subset
- alternates
- etc.
A few new options were added:
- --resolve-deps / --no-resolve-deps
- --optional-deps / --no-optional-deps
- --verbose
and some other internal ones for testing reasons.
The new script does automatic resolving of dependencies
based on the depends / recommends keys in .gitmodules unless
--no-resolve-deps is passed.
So if you configure with --module-subset=qtsvg, the script will also
initialize qtbase.
If --no-optional-deps is passed, only required dependencies ('depends'
ky) will be included and optional dependencies ('recommends' key) will
be excluded.
The new script now has a new default behavior when calling
init-repository a second time with --force, without specifying a
--module-subset option. Instead of initializing all submodules, it
will just update the existing / previously initialized submodules.
It also understands a new module-subset keyword "existing", which
expands to the previously initialized submodules, so someone can
initialize an additional submodule by calling
init-repository -f --module-subset=existing,qtsvg
Implementation notes:
The overall code flow is init-repository -> cmake/QtIRScript.cmake
-> qt_ir_run_main_script -> qt_ir_run_after_args_parsed ->
qt_ir_handle_init_submodules (recursive) -> qt_ir_clone_one_submodule
with some bells and whistles on the side.
The command line parsing is an adapted copy of the functions
in qtbase/cmake/QtProcessConfigureArgs.cmake. We can't use those exact
functions because qtbase is not available when init-repository is
initially called, and force cloning qtbase was deemed undesirable.
We also have a new mechanism to detect whether init-repository was
previously called. The perl script used the existence of the qtbase
submodule as the check. In the cmake script, we instead set a custom
marker into the local repo config file.
Otherwise the code logic should be a faithful reimplementation of
init-repository.pl aside from some small things like logging and
progress reporting.
The pre-existing git cloning logic in QtTopLevelHelpers was not used
because it would not be compatible with the alternates option and I
didn't want to accidentally break the pre-existing code. Plus
init-repository is a bit opinionated about how it clones and checks
out repos.
The dependency collection and sorting logic uses the pre-existing code
though.
See follow up commit about implicitly calling init-repository when
qt5/configure is called and the repo was not initialized before.
[ChangeLog][General] init-repository was rewritten using CMake. Perl
is no longer required to initialize the qt5.git super repo.
Task-number: QTBUG-120030
Task-number: QTBUG-122622
Change-Id: Ibc38ab79d3fdedd62111ebbec496eabd64c20d2b
Reviewed-by: Alexey Edelev <alexey.edelev@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Joerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <tor.arne.vestbo@qt.io>
HOW TO BUILD Qt 6
Synopsis
System requirements
- C++ compiler supporting the C++17 standard
- CMake
- Ninja
- Python 3
For more details, see also https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/build-sources.html
Linux, Mac:
cd <path>/<source_package>
./configure -prefix $PWD/qtbase
cmake --build .
Windows:
- Open a command prompt.
- Ensure that the following tools can be found in the path:
- Supported compiler (Visual Studio 2019 or later, or MinGW-builds gcc 8.1 or later)
- Python 3 ([https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/] or from Microsoft Store)
cd <path>\<source_package>
configure -prefix %CD%\qtbase
cmake --build .
More details follow.
Build!
Qt is built with CMake, and a typical
configure && cmake --build . build process is used.
If Ninja is installed, it is automatically chosen as CMake generator.
Some relevant configure options (see configure -help):
-releaseCompile and link Qt with debugging turned off.-debugCompile and link Qt with debugging turned on.
Example for a release build:
./configure -prefix $PWD/qtbase
cmake --build .
Example for a developer build: (enables more autotests, builds debug version of libraries, ...)
./configure -developer-build
cmake --build .
See output of ./configure -help for documentation on various options to
configure.
The above examples will build whatever Qt modules have been enabled by default in the build system.
It is possible to build selected repositories with their dependencies by doing
a ninja <repo-name>/all. For example, to build only qtdeclarative,
and the modules it depends on:
./configure
ninja qtdeclarative/all
This can save a lot of time if you are only interested in a subset of Qt.
Hints
The submodule repository qtrepotools contains useful scripts for
developers and release engineers. Consider adding qtrepotools/bin
to your PATH environment variable to access them.
Building Qt from git
See http://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_6_from_Git and README.git for more information. See http://wiki.qt.io/Qt_6 for the reference platforms.
Documentation
After configuring and compiling Qt, building the documentation is possible by running
cmake --build . --target docs
After having built the documentation, you need to install it with the following command:
cmake --build . --target install_docs
The documentation is installed in the path specified with the
configure argument -docdir.
Information about Qt's documentation is located in qtbase/doc/README
Note: Building the documentation is only tested on desktop platforms.