help on kwin source build

[Aleix Pol]

If your goal is to just use kwin, I'd suggest using the one from the
distro of your choice always.

Note that Kubuntu 21.04 has been released today and it has Qt 5.15 and
a bunch of dependencies newer including Plasma 5.21. That said, you'll
still have to build a bunch of dependencies even there since our
repositories need fresh versions of others (like KF or other Plasma
repos like KWayland-Server)

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 5:42 PM Luca Vercelli
<luca.vercelli.to at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am trying to build kwin from git source.
> I see that KUbuntu ships with version 5.18, so I switched to branch Plasma/5.18
> I installed all kwin build-dependencies using apt.
> I try to build kwin, and it tells I have a wrong version of qt: 5.12.8 instead of 5.15.0
> So, I guess that git version is different from KUbuntu version, it uses a more recent version of Qt, correct?
>
> I also see that it's difficult to obtain Qt 5.15 pre-compiled, as the owner distribution policy has changed, isn't it?
>
> So, how do you suggest me to go on? should I manage to build Qt from scratch (argh!) or should I use KUbuntu kwin version instead?
>
> Thank you.
> Luca
>
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