> On Apr 13, 2022, at 06:52, Sze Howe Koh wrote:
> Apple has let their OpenGL implementation stagnate since 2010 [1].
> They then officially deprecated it in 2018, citing significant
> advantages of Metal over OpenGL [2]. They have not revealed when
> OpenGL will be removed.
>
> Most of Qt Quick works well with Metal -- it's only QQuickWidget that
> doesn't. In contrast, the graphics API setting affects all of Qt
> Quick. Furthermore, QQuickWidget has limitations [3] compared to other
> ways of displaying a Qt Quick UI, so it shouldn't be the first choice
> unless you really need to mix widgets with Qt Quick.
>
> Given all this, I don't think it makes sense for Qt to default to
> something that can be killed off any day now, just to make it easier
> to use QQuickWidget.
>
> In any case, I think the error message "QQuickWidget is only supported
> on OpenGL. Use QQuickWindow::setGraphicsApi() to override the default"
> is clear enough as a once-off message for those who want to use
> QQuickWidget.
So I finally found time to try and figure out what to do here.
This is all rather confusing.
I have two different QML modules that are included in my Qt Widget based
app. One of them works. It shows maps, not a problem. I get the warning:
QQuickWidget is only supported on OpenGL. Use QQuickWindow::setGraphicsApi() to
override the default.
but it still works just fine.
The other one, however, crashes in the software render when I try to instantiate
the Widget:
Exception Type:EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x
Exception Codes: 0x0001, 0x
Exception Note:EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
Termination Reason:Namespace SIGNAL, Code 11 Segmentation fault: 11
Terminating Process: exc handler [80775]
VM Region Info: 0 is not in any region. Bytes before following region:
4332961792
REGION TYPESTART - END [ VSIZE] PRT/MAX
SHRMOD REGION DETAIL
UNUSED SPACE AT START
--->
__TEXT 10243c000-102aa8000[ 6576K] r-x/r-x
SM=COW ...OS/Subsurface
Kernel Triage:
VM - Compressor failed a blocking pager_get
VM - Compressor failed a blocking pager_get
VM - Compressor failed a blocking pager_get
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 QtQuick0x1057423a8
QSGSoftwareRenderableNode::update() + 544 (qsgsoftwarerenderablenode.cpp:187)
1 QtQuick0x1057423a8
QSGSoftwareRenderableNode::update() + 544 (qsgsoftwarerenderablenode.cpp:187)
2 QtQuick0x105744a6c bool
QSGSoftwareRenderableNodeUpdater::updateRenderableNode(QSGSoftwareRenderableNode::NodeType,
QSGImageNode*) + 288 (qsgsoftwarerenderablenodeupdater_p.h:135)
3 QtQuick0x10577eb24
QSGNodeVisitorEx::visitChildren(QSGNode*) + 108 (qsgadaptationlayer.cpp:355)
4 QtQuick0x105746008
QSGSoftwareRenderableNodeUpdater::updateNodes(QSGNode*, bool) + 1100
(qsgsoftwarerenderablenodeupdater.cpp:282)
5 QtQuick0x10573826c
QSGAbstractSoftwareRenderer::nodeAdded(QSGNode*) + 124
(qsgabstractsoftwarerenderer.cpp:267)
6 QtQuick0x105737ee4
QSGAbstractSoftwareRenderer::nodeChanged(QSGNode*,
QFlags) + 164 (qsgabstractsoftwarerenderer.cpp:108)
7 QtQuick0x105772750
QSGRootNode::notifyNodeChange(QSGNode*, QFlags) + 44
(qsgnode.cpp:1277) [inlined]
8 QtQuick0x105772750
QSGNode::markDirty(QFlags) + 84 (qsgnode.cpp:671)
[inlined]
9 QtQuick0x105772750
QSGNode::appendChildNode(QSGNode*) + 144 (qsgnode.cpp:454)
10 Subsurface 0x10272c2a4
ChartPixmapItem::render(StatsTheme const&) + 172 (chartitem.cpp:71)
11 Subsurface 0x10276006c
StatsView::updatePaintNode(QSGNode*, QQuickItem::UpdatePaintNodeData*) + 160
(statsview.cpp:186)
Ok, so maybe the software renderer is the problem... after all everyone tells
me to use OpenGL
QT_QUICK_BACKEND="opengl" ./Subsurface.app/Contents/MacOS/Subsurface -v
...
Could not create scene graph context for backend 'opengl' - check that plugins
are installed correctly in
/Users/hohndel/src/subsurface/build/Subsurface.app/Contents/PlugIns
QQuickWidget is only supported on OpenGL. Use QQuickWindow::setGraphicsApi() to
override the default.
So I'm trying to use the OpenGL backend, but it's unclear how to do that. I
looked high and lo for such a plugin. I copied all plugins... nothing.
I saw elsewhere that I actually should include the OpenGL component when
building like this:
find_package(Qt6 COMPONENTS OpenGL)
LIST(APPEND SUBSURFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES Qt6::OpenGL)
That builds, but
