[Qgis-developer] Building QGIS 2.x with Qt 5.x?

Matthias Kuhn matthias.kuhn at gmx.ch
Thu Sep 4 00:46:26 PDT 2014


Hi Dave,

IIRC you only have to set the cmake option ENABLE_QT5=TRUE

Matthias

On 09/02/2014 10:07 PM, Dave Johansen wrote:
> I'd be glad to give it a try and help resolve any issues. What do I 
> need to do to build it? I tried running cmake and it is still looking 
> for Qt4, so how do I tell it to build with Qt5?
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Matthias Kuhn <matthias.kuhn at gmx.ch 
> <mailto:matthias.kuhn at gmx.ch>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Dave,
>
>     I have ported large portions of the code to Qt5 (for Android). It has
>     not been widely tested but runs quite stable here on Fedora (so
>     not far
>     from RHEL). However, due to missing pyqt packages I could not test
>     python support (arriving in Fedora 21). If you want to give it a try,
>     you can find the code here [1]
>
>     Good luck and let me know how it goes.
>
>     Matthias
>
>     [1] https://github.com/m-kuhn/QGIS/tree/final-2_4_0-qt5
>
>     On Die 02 Sep 2014 20:38:28 CEST, Dave Johansen wrote:
>     > http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/62548/can-i-use-qgis-with-qt5
>     > The above link indicates that QGIS 2.x can't be built with Qt
>     5.x and
>     > I was curious how much work would be involved in resolving that.
>     >
>     > I ask because I'm using RHEL 6 which comes with Qt 4.6 and so I
>     can't
>     > build QGIS 2.x with that because it requires 4.7. Qt 5.x is
>     available
>     > in the EPEL so I was wondering what would be involved in making
>     it so
>     > I could use that. If it's not too big of an effort, then I could
>     > potentially help with the work but I wanted to find out what it
>     would
>     > involve before I dove into anything.
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Dave
>     >
>     >
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