State of the Qt6 port

[Dmitry Kazakov]

Another small update:

1) KF5KDcraw is ported (Krita + deps project)
2) KSeExpr is ported (Krtia + deps project)

On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM Halla Rempt <halla at valdyas.org> wrote:

> Update: since today, Krita starts and you can even open an image!
>
> On vrijdag 31 januari 2025 15:56:22 Midden-Europese standaardtijd Halla
> Rempt wrote:
> > Once the last merge request is merged, Krita builds with Qt5 and Qt6.
> There should be no functional difference for the Qt5 builds. All tests
> build as well, except for those that need the missing dependencies. Krita 6
> doesn't start yet...
> >
> > These are the relevant merge requests
> >
> > https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/2225
> > https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/2243
> > https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/2253
> > https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/2291
> > https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/2305
> > https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/2306
> >
> > Not everything is done. Four dependencies are disregarded atm:
> >
> >  * KSeExpr (required version >= 6.0.0.0), <
> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/kseexpr>
> >    Required by the SeExpr generator layer
> >  * PyQt6 (required version >= 6.7.0), Python bindings for Qt6., <
> https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download>
> >    Required by the Krita PyQt plugin
> >  * Poppler, A PDF rendering library, <https://poppler.freedesktop.org/>
> >    Required by the Krita PDF filter.
> >  * KF5KDcraw (required version >= 5.0.0), A thread-safe wrapper around
> libraw, <https://api.kde.org/libkdcraw/html/index.html>
> >    Needed for reading RAW files
> >
> > I have only built on Linux, against distro packages for Qt6 and
> libraries that we use that use Qt6. To enable the Qt6 build, explicitly set
> BUILD_WITH_QT6=ON when calling cmake.
> >
> > So, MacOS, Windows and Android are untested, except for making sure the
> Qt6 build builds.
> >
> > The dependencies project has also not been ported to Qt6.
> >
> > I have done nothing to support Wayland, so there is still X11 specific
> code.
> >
> > There are ***MANY*** new warnings, mostly deprecations.
> >
> > We still use the Qt5 compatibility library, mostly for QRegExp. I didn't
> want to touch QRegExp and port it to QRegularExpression, though I have done
> that in some simple cases.
> >
> > There are 136 QT_VERSION_CHECKS in the codebase, but all version checks
> for different versions of Qt5 are gone :-)
> >
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Dmitry Kazakov
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