Re-add rkward build to binary factory

Hannah von Reth vonreth at kde.org
Tue Jun 18 13:05:18 BST 2019


Ah we are using cmake...

Probably one of the other recent commits fixed it.


On 18/06/2019 13:59, Hannah von Reth wrote:
> Hm, yes qtwebkit is building something here at the moment, which is 
> strange as the builds where disabled on qt's side 
> https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtwebkit.git/commit/?id=154b95c308911b04f11a991b5ac792269f89ab7d 
> ...
>
> On 18/06/2019 12:18, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:22:39 +0200
>> Hannah von Reth <vonreth at kde.org> wrote:
>>> currently we are unable to build QtWebkit with mingw.
>>>
>>> It should be possible to fix QtWebkit,
>>> https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/blob/2cfdf054df2c826d7c61237ee5ac2453b0f3964d/mingw-w64-qtwebkit/PKGBUILD 
>>>
>>> the patches here might help.
>> could you give me some details? After re-enabling the build for MinGW,
>> qtwebkit just compiled out of the box. It took forever, but did not
>> require any patching. Admittedly, I have cheated a tiny bit by building
>> with --buildtype Release, as RelWithDebInfo exceeded my (virtual) disk
>> space.
>>
>> I'd like to point of the perhaps the entire reason for the continued
>> existence of QtWebKit *is* MinGW, or more precisely the fact that
>> QtWebEngine cannot be built with MinGW, and thus is not available as an
>> alternative.
>>
>>> The mingw builds where recently removed after several month of
>>> failing.
>> And just now our MacOS build has been removed, as well. I know it has
>> been failing. *Again* without any change on *our* end.
>>
>> I'm not directing the following sigh at anyone in particular, as I know
>> there isn't the right address for it. It still wants out though:
>>
>> I'd love to have more time for the project. But I don't. It totally
>> sucks to come back from a hiatus after a few months, only to find out
>> that there's not just a lack of progress, but the project has been
>> broken by external changes, left broken, *and* removed without notice.
>> Instead of going anywhere, I'm spending hours just trying to get back
>> to the baseline. No fun.
>>
>> Regards
>> Thomas
>>
>>


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