Thanks Mark, I sent an email to the MXE list.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Mark Brand <mabr...@mabrand.nl> wrote: > > On 03/07/2014 12:40 AM, Jonathan Greig wrote: > >> I've used MXE several times in the past even before it was called MXE. I >> must have really bad luck, because any time I have ever used the master >> ends up in disaster. Mark, Since I know your involved with MXE more than >> most, is there an estimate on when the shared lib support will make it into >> the stable branch or is it too early to tell? >> >> I noticed it was subsumed into the win32-g++ mkspec but the note suggests >> you need to build Qt5 from source, which I would like to avoid if possible >> because that lengthens the build process considerably. I'm on Kubuntu 13.10 >> and using the .deb packages(which I'm assuming are bootstrapped from >> Debian) previously tried using -spec win32-g++ without much luck. If I can >> get it working reliably on my machine, there's little reason why it >> wouldn't work on Travis-CI. Are the Debian packages not configured for >> cross-compiling? >> > > MXE builds everything from source, but it's painless and fast. It will > build all packages from gcc through all the Qt 5 modules during your coffee > break. > > It's probably best to ask on the MXE list about shared libraries and the > stable branch. Many people use the master branch successfully, at least as > a base for their own private fork. > > I have haven't tried it any other way than with MXE for a long time so I > can't say much about Travis-CI or the Debian packages. If you look at how > the Qt configure script is invoked in MXE, that might give you some ideas. > > > > On 03/07/2014 01:21 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > >> Reusing the Qt build tools for different Qt builds is unsupported. So, >> officially, you need to get a qmake binary for Linux for that >> cross-compilation >> environment, along with moc, uic, rcc, etc. >> >> So you don't need to compile Qt 5 from sources. Provided someone else >> already >> has. >> > > The Qt utilities qmake, moc, uic, rcc, etc are included in the MXE build, > not reused from whatever is already installed on the machine. >
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