[QGIS-Developer] Building from source using Qt6

[Nyall Dawson]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 at 16:05, Paul Burns <paulburns at simplexity.com.au> wrote:
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> Thanks Nyall.
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> Ok I'll revert back to Qt5. Is there a preferred Qt5 version?

Definitely 5.15. (It's likely in the coming weeks that this will
become the minimum allowed version when building from master).

> Is there a design document, or anything that describes/summarises the structure of the source code, which functionality is where etc.

The best place to start is
https://docs.qgis.org/3.22/en/docs/developers_guide/index.html

Nyall


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> Paul
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, 9 August 2022 2:43 PM
> To: Paul Burns <paulburns at simplexity.com.au>
> Cc: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [QGIS-Developer] Building from source using Qt6
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> On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 at 14:15, Paul Burns via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> >
> > I am attempting to build qgis from https://github.com.qgis/QGIS. I have been working my way through the dependencies in CMakeLists.txt. I am using QtCreator 7.0.2 based on Qt 6.2.3.
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> > In the CMakeLists.txt section “# search for Qt”, around line 450, I see that the variable BUILD_WITH_QT6 is set to false.
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> > Can I use Qt6 to build the current QGIS source?
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> Basically no. It's a wip which is still a considerable time off.
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> Nyall
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