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murzagurskiy
murzagurskiy

Reputation: 1323

QT Creator 5.7 did not build all modules as static lib

Couldn't find answer myself.

I try to use a power shell script windows-build-qt-static.ps1 to build QT from sources. It's did not working as is, so I modify it. I have download sources manualy, unzip them, place into properly dirrectory, manually patch mkspecs with

# [QT-STATIC-PATCH]
QMAKE_LFLAGS += -static -static-libgcc
QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE -= -O2
QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE += -Os -momit-leaf-frame-pointer
DEFINES += QT_STATIC_BUILD

and finally I start the power shell script, which contains only following part (the rest code I had remove):

$MingwDir = "c:\Qt\Qt5.7.0\Tools\mingw530_32\"
$QtDir = "c:\Qt\Static\5.7\"
$QtSrcDir = "c:\Qt\Static\src\"

# Set a clean path including MinGW.
$env:Path = "$MingwDir\bin;$MingwDir\opt\bin;$env:SystemRoot\system32;$env:SystemRoot"

# Force English locale to avoid weird effects of tools localization.
$env:LANG = "en"

# Set environment variable QT_INSTALL_PREFIX. Documentation says it should be
# used by configure as prefix but this does not seem to work. So, we will
# also specify -prefix option in configure.
$env:QT_INSTALL_PREFIX = $QtDir

# Configure, compile and install Qt.
Push-Location $QtSrcDir
cmd /c "configure.bat -static -debug-and-release -platform win32-g++ -prefix $QtDir `
    -qt-zlib -qt-pcre -qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -opengl desktop -qt-sql-sqlite -no-openssl `
    -make qtserialport -make libs -nomake tools -nomake examples -nomake tests"
mingw32-make -k -j4
mingw32-make -k install
Pop-Location

# Patch Qt's installed mkspecs for static build of application.
$File = "$QtDir\mkspecs\win32-g++\qmake.conf"
@"
    CONFIG += static
"@ | Out-File -Append $File -Encoding Ascii

After that, I have compiled QT sources in static libraries, but only following: enter image description here

This compiled libraries doesn't contains the needed for me (qtserialport, qtcharts, qtconnectivity and other).

Then, I realized, that the mingw32-make is misconfigured, but I can found that lines in main Makefile:

...
module-qtserialport-qmake_all: module-qtbase-qmake_all FORCE
    @if not exist qtserialport\ mkdir qtserialport\ & if not exist qtserialport\ exit 1
    cd qtserialport\ && $(QMAKE) C:\Qt\Static\src\qtserialport\qtserialport.pro -o Makefile
    cd qtserialport\ && $(MAKE) -f Makefile qmake_all
module-qtserialport: module-qtbase FORCE
    @if not exist qtserialport\ mkdir qtserialport\ & if not exist qtserialport\ exit 1
    cd qtserialport\ && ( if not exist Makefile $(QMAKE) C:\Qt\Static\src\qtserialport\qtserialport.pro -o Makefile ) && $(MAKE) -f Makefile
module-qtserialport-make_first: module-qtbase-make_first FORCE
    @if not exist qtserialport\ mkdir qtserialport\ & if not exist qtserialport\ exit 1
    cd qtserialport\ && ( if not exist Makefile $(QMAKE) C:\Qt\Static\src\qtserialport\qtserialport.pro -o Makefile ) && $(MAKE) -f Makefile 
...

I try found out, why many modules did not compile. I tried compile them manually, but I`m failed.

Please help me compile whole Qt Creator (with all modules) into static libs, or build each module as static lib manually.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 971

Answers (1)

user3606329
user3606329

Reputation: 2534

The build in later Qt versions has been more simplified, no patching is required anymore instead you can use -static-runtime.

If you want to build Qt 5.7.0 the steps are as following:

  1. Download the source code and extract it
  2. Open your developer console (MingW or MSVC) and navigate to the folder

  3. Type configure -static -static-runtime -debug-and-release -prefix /your/directory -no-openssl -nomake tools -nomake examples -nomake tests(add additional features, if you want)

  4. mingw32-make -k -j4 (or jom/make)

  5. mingw32-make -k install (or jom/make)

The shell script was helpful in earlier versions where you had to patch certain variables.

Upvotes: 2

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