Re: [meta-qt5] How to build Qt5 with 'designer' module?

[Jonathan Liu <net147@gmail.com>]

Hi Peter,

On 15/10/2014 11:47 PM, Peter wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> thanks for the reply.
>
> On 13 Oktober 2014 04:30, Jonathan Liu <net147@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> On 9 October 2014 18:13, Fink, Peter <pfink@christ-elektronik.de> wrote:
>>> I’m trying to build a Qt application with the toolchain generated by 
>>> openembedded (meta-toolchain-qt5).
>>>
>>> The application needs the designer-module, which I thought was 
>>> included in the qttools package, but now I get the following error:
>>>
>>> “Project Error: Unknown module(s) in QT: designer.”
>>>
>>> What do I have to include to get the designer module?
>>>
>>> Another thing I run into was the missing syncqt.pl script in the 
>>> toolchain as I need qftp. A link syncqt -> syncqt.pl was present.
>>> Is it missing by accident or for a reason?
>>>
>>> I was using Qt. 5.3.1 02861e677ab....
>> You can try backporting the following patches:
>> http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/81599/
>> http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/81603/
>
> I tried your patches. syncqt.pl is included now, but my application 
> still did not compile.
> I had to remove qttools-plugins, because it gave me a "cannot install 
> qttools-plugins" error while generating the toolchain - maybe this was 
> the reason why the libs were not included?
> Now I tested hacking it into qtbase.inc and it seems to include the 
> qtdesigner libs:
>
> @@ -131,6 +132,7 @@ QT_CONFIG_FLAGS += " \
>      -no-pch \
>      -no-rpath \
>      -pkg-config \
> +    -make tools \
>      ${EXTRA_OECONF} \
>  "
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
Make sure you have "tools" in PACKAGECONFIG for qtbase if you are 
overriding PACKAGECONFIG as this will add "-make tools" to QT_CONFIG_FLAGS.
What do you have PACKAGECONFIG set to for the qtbase recipe?

Regards,
Jonathan