No plugins found when building kate from source

[Daan De Meyer]

It seems the plugin search directory is hardcoded to /usr/lib/qt/plugins
and the installation directory of the executable (in my case
/usr/local/bin/kate). The plugins themselves are located at
/usr/local/lib/plugins so they are not found by the kde plugin loader as it
only searches in QCoreApplication::libraryPaths() which returns the earlier
mentioned directories.

The qt documentation lists https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qt-conf.html as a way to
override these hardcoded paths so I changed the CMake config to add a
qt.conf file to the executable containing the install location of the
plugins. However, this causes kate to fail to start since the default
search path for qt plugins (/usr/lib/qt/plugins) is overwritten so default
qt plugins cannot be found anymore.

Another way to solve the problem is to add the required search paths when
starting kate. I can generate a custom settings file containing the plugin
installation directory with CMake and load it when starting kate but I
wanted to ask here first since I'd be very surprised if this problem hasn't
been encountered and solved by someone before me.

Regards,

Daan

On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 at 17:17, Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to try out the lsp plugin but after building the kate github
> repository from source using cmake and installing to /usr/local the plugins
> page in kate's settings is completely empty. I didn't manage to find any
> documentation on how to fix this.
>
> When installing kate via the package manager the plugins page is not empty
> as expected.
>
> I'm on Arch Linux if that helps.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Regards,
>
> Daan De Meyer
>
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