[Qgis-psc] QGIS grant report: Support building QGIS app on Qt 6

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Nyall

I just saw that nobody has replied to this email, So let me just say a huge
'thank you' for moving the needle so far forward towards having QGIS work
with Qt6!

Regards

Tim

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 3:14 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi PSC,
>
> I'd like to report the successful completion of this grant project.
> (see https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/243 for
> proposal details).
>
> In a fortunate turn of events, I didn't encounter any of the
> previously expected significant issues during this work and as a
> result was able to proceed much further with the Qt 6 port then
> originally proposed!
>
> The proposal originally concerned only porting the "gui" and "app"
> libraries to Qt 6, but I was able to complete also the "3d" and
> "server" libraries too. We now are at a stage where the majority of
> QGIS builds and runs without any significant issues on Qt 6. The
> github CI setup has been updated to also run the c++ tests for gui,
> app, server and 3d, and the majority of these have been fixed so that
> they pass on the Qt 6 builds too.
>
> In addition, some tests which were failing under Qt 6 revealed some
> real QGIS bugs which have been fixed in the process of this work. (So
> there's a direct benefit for the existing Qt 5 builds too!).
>
> As previously reported, the next major step toward Qt 6 is enabling
> python support for Qt 6 builds, and then running the full test suite
> (with all the 1000s of python based tests) so that we can get a more
> complete picture of exactly how stable and bug-free the Qt 6 port is.
>
> Thanks again for the opportunity to undertake this work!
>
> Nyall
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