friendly reminder from an old time lurker that the 5.15 Qt is still being updated on the KDE infrastructure with the LTS patches.
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 11:21 PM Dirk Hohndel via subsurface < subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org> wrote: > OK, since I had a day off today I didn't only finish 5.0.4, I also decided > to at least poke a toe into this mess. > > The summary of what I've learned so far? > > UGH. > > QtWebKit doesn't work with Qt 6 and it appears that no one is interested > in porting that monster. > Frankly, I can't blame them. > > Which means that we can't support printing with Qt 6. > > The rest of the changes seemed like they should be doable in a few days of > just hunting the build errors and warnings down - nothing seems > catastrophic. > > Adding Qt 6 support should give us Apple M1 support, support for > additional localizations of the base widget (e.g., Dutch). But frankly not > a lot more that I can identify. > The amount of work needed to upgrade our build infrastructure to Qt 6 for > Windows, Mac, AppImage, Android, iOS... I really don't even want to > contemplate it. > > So my current plan continues to be "stay on Qt 5.15 for as long as I > possibly can". After all, the major Linux distros are mostly still shipping > Qt 4 :) > > /D > > On Oct 15, 2021, at 12:05 PM, Dirk Hohndel via subsurface < > subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org> wrote: > > > > On Oct 15, 2021, at 9:55 AM, Robert Helling wrote: > > Hi, > > has anybody managed to build Subsurface on Apple Silicone? Because I > haven’t. > > > Yeah, I still don't have a Mac with M1 silicon, so no, haven't even > tried... my understanding is that the x86 version works just fine, though... > > Here is a log of my frustrations. > > Before leaving for the summer vacation, I received a new MacMini at the > office featuring the new ARM based Apple hardware that everybody is so > excited about. It runs Big Sur. > > It took several weeks to find the time to properly take care of it, > install all the software I need for work, get permissions right (it seems > they changed what admin users can do when the machine is part of an active > domain or better what they cannot do, for example install software updates > etc etc). But those things I think I have under control by now. > > So I move forward and tried to set up a build environment for Subsurface. > I encountered halve installed versions of Xcode which on the other hand > leave behind zombi installations when removed that confuse auto build when > still around when there is a second version as well (this took me two days > to understand). But also that is solved. I think. > > > This might be good to document in more detail, especially how to fix it > (for the next poor person coming around to this) > > > But now I hit a road block: I am able to build the subsurface object > files. But then I came to the understanding that Qt 5.x does not exist in > version for Apple’s ARM processors, only for the 86 family (which could be > used in Rosetta mode and indeed the official Mac binaries from Dirk’s > server work fine on that machine). But I have not been able to convince the > Subsurface build system to build 86 family binaries on my ARM machine. > > > No idea how to do that, frankly. I'm sure you've found this page > https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-on-apple-silicon and if you wanted to > experiment with Qt6 there's more stuff here > https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/macos.html > > I think eventually we will need to port to Qt 6 - and that should fix the > core of your problem, right? > > So I see three options to move forward: „Cross-build“ Subsurface for the > old hardware platform. Or wait for ARM built binaries of Qt 5.x (which as I > understand might never happen at least in the open source world). Or move > Subsurface forward to work with Qt 6 (which might be in better shape w.r.t. > ARM but I don’t really understand the current situation in detail). > > > I think you have that right. Allegedly one can build "fairly decent" Qt > 5.15 binaries for M1. Just takes a while :) > > But really, the only logical path is Qt6 > > /D > > _______________________________________________ > subsurface mailing list > subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org > http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface > > > _______________________________________________ > subsurface mailing list > subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org > http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface >
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