[Qgis-developer] Qt platform plugin "cocoa".

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi William,

On Sat 12 Jul 2014 05:18:50 PM CEST, William Kyngesburye wrote:
> That's probably because that Qt plugin is not bundled into the app.  The QGIS Mac installation does not know about changes in Qt 5 file organization yet.  I don't have Qt 5, so I can't figure out those changes to update the source.
>
> You could try configuring with QGIS_MACAPP_BUNDLE=0 so that it doesn't bundle Qt.  This makes the app less portable.
>
> Is QGIS in general even ready for Qt 5?

Not yet in master.

I was experimenting with Qt5 support recently and it is not too hard to 
port (i.e. to a codebase that compiles against Qt4 and Qt5)

If you want to give it a try:
https://github.com/m-kuhn/QGIS/tree/final-2_4_0-qt5

Best,
Matthias