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

Dave Johansen davejohansen at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 07:56:12 PDT 2014


I tried doing "-DENABLE_QT5=TRUE" and "-DENABLE_QT5:BOOL=TRUE" and it still
doesn't work. In CMakeCache.txt, it says "//No help, variable specified on
the command line.". Any recommendations on what else to try?
Thanks,
Dave


On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Matthias Kuhn <matthias.kuhn at gmx.ch> wrote:

>  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>
> 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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