Build scripts: QtWebkit 5.212 for Qt 5.15.x

The script build_qt_unix.sh is meant to build patched QtWebkit 5.212 and Qt 5.15.x mainly for macOS. It can also be used for Linux, but it's not well tested yet.

This environment is needed to build the xTuple software.

ATTENTION: all shell commands below assumes that current directory is this repository scripts. They do source setenv.sh to set necessary variables.

1. xcode
2. hombrew

The rest (python3, python2, perl...) will be installed by script if not yet installed (see install_prerequisites step in build_qt_unix.sh).

Edit setenv.sh to change software version, source and build directories:

#!/bin/bash

export PNG_VER=1.6.43      # http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
export JPG_VER=9f          # https://ijg.org/files/
export PSQL_VER=16.3       # https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/
export QT_VER=5.15.15      # https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.15/

# This is for macOS where it will be installed. For linux it might be used pre-installed qt
export QT_DIR="/opt/Qt/$QT_VER/qt_xtuple"

export SRC_DIR="$HOME/work/src"
export BUILD_DIR="$HOME/work/build"

# This will be used for xtuple build
export XTUPLE_PREFIX="$HOME/work"
export XTUPLE="$XTUPLE_PREFIX/qt-client"
export XTUPLE_BUILD="$XTUPLE"

Building can sometimes fail, so to make the try-and-error process easier, the build is divided into steps. If a step fails, the script will exit. On re-run, it will continue from the failed step, with the last successful step saved in the last_successful_step file under the source directory.

To restart clean build, first remove last_successful_step file if it exists in the sources directory $SRC_DIR.

You can disable any step by commenting it out.

Building Qt and QtWebkit is divided into three steps each: prep, build, install. This way, it's easier to continue if a failure happens during the build.

# File to track the last successfully completed step
STATE_FILE="$SRC_DIR/last_successful_step"

# List of functions to run
BUILD_STEPS=(
    "install_prerequisites"
    "download_sources"
    "build_png"
    "build_jpg"
    "build_psql"
    "prep_qt"
    "build_qt"
    "install_qt"
    "prep_webkit"
    "build_webkit"
    "install_webkit"
)

Run

sh build_qt_unix.sh

It will take quite some time (1-4 hours depending on hardware).

When build finished all the necessary files will be installed in $QT_DIR directory. Source and build directories can be removed ($SRC_DIR and $BUILD_DIR) using file manager or terminal commands.

To build xTuple on MacOS/Linux first get the sources:

source setenv.sh && mkdir -p "$XTUPLE_PREFIX" && cd "$XTUPLE_PREFIX" && git clone --recurse-submodules --depth=1 https://github.com/dilshodm/qt-client.git && cd -

Note --depth=1 - this is to clone shallow copy. If you need full repo with history, then remove that argument.

sh build_xtuple_unix.sh

This will build xtuple and if it's macOS it will create dmg file which will be located in qt-client/bin/ directory.

Dilshod Mukhtarov dilshodm<at>gmail.com