[SailfishDevel] qt upgrade

[Tone Kastlunger]

How about focussing on the 5.9 -> 5.12 transition instead?
if you start from the work of jolla, you will speed up the process.

tortoisedoc

On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 11:17 AM Alexander Akulich <
akulichalexander at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I experimented with a build in prefix in March 2018. I changed MER Qt
> build configuration to make it trivial to install an arbitrary number
> of versions simultaneously. I'll make PRs on git.merproject.org once
> Qt-5.9 support will be merged to master.
> There are two issues — wayland and virtual keyboard. I posted
> instruction in Sailfish OS Fan Club group in Telegram, here it is:
>
> >// Qt 5.9 for Sailfish OS (installed to /usr/lib/qt5.9 simultaneously to
> the system Qt)
> >// To install (root or privileged):
> >ssu ar qt-prefix-5.9
> http://repo.merproject.org/obs/home:/Kaffeine:/qt:/prefix:/5.9/latest_armv7hl
> >zypper ref qt-prefix-5.9
> >zypper in qt5.9-qtquickcontrols2-examples qt5.9-qtwayland
> >
> >// To remove (root or privileged):
> >zypper rm qt5.9*
> >
> >// To try out (nemo):
> >QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/qt5.9/lib
> /usr/lib/qt5.9/examples/quickcontrols2/gallery/gallery
> >
> >This is a very first success build, please do not expect much :).
> >
> >P.S.: Select Material style in the settings at the right top corner to
> make the demo a bit nicer.
>
> I also mostly built Qt-5.11, but it is not an LTS and IMO not as big
> step forward as 5.9, so I didn't evolve it.
>
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 8:44 PM rinigus <rinigus.git at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > sounds like there are porting and licensing issues on the way of getting
> qt 5.9 for SFOS (see logs from the last #mer-meeting). Its all
> understandable, but it would be great to get a way forward. Not sure
> whether it has been considered by others and I wonder whether we can make a
> separate Qt 5.12 packages for /opt/qt512?
> >
> > From a quick test, it is possible to run non-silica applications as well
> (tested with qmlscene and QML with plain Window). In that test, even
> keyboard worked as expected. Look was non-native, but let it be for now.
> >
> > So, I wonder, whether its possible to get Qt 5.12 compiled with
> /opt/qt512 prefix and then use it for development using the latest libs
> (new web browser?) and collaborate with other mobile Linux'es out there. As
> far as I remember, Wayland was rather old and, maybe, it will preclude Qt
> 5.12 compilation. @mal, though, had a newer version around and it may serve
> a purpose for such project. Is there anything else that should be
> considered?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Rinigus
> >
> > PS: Please consider it as request-for-comment and not as any kind of
> statement nor call-for-action :)
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