Thomas Danckaert writes: > Hi, > > this patch adds QtWebKit 5.7 as a separate package (hopefully this will > reduce security concerns: only packages which really need QtWebKit will > include it). > > QtWebKit is not officially supported anymore as of Qt 5.6, so this is a > “community release” (not exactly sure what that entails, or if this includes > any updates at all since the Qt 5.5 version). I suppose many projects are > switching to Qt WebEngine, and there are some efforts to create an updated > version of QtWebKit (https://github.com/annulen/webkit), but in the mean > time, this package might help build packages which still rely on the old > QtWebKit. > > By default, the qmake build system for qtwebkit insists on installing into > the same prefix as qtbase, and it seems no command line parameters will > change that. The solution I came up with, was to substitute all the necessary > paths in the generated Makefiles. This makes the patch a bit lengthy. > > I've also attached a minimal example. > > Thomas > QT += widgets > QT += webkit > QT += webkitwidgets > SOURCES = example.cpp > > #include <QWebView> > #include <QApplication> > > int main(int argc, char** argv) { > QApplication app(argc, argv); > QWebView view; > view.show(); > view.setUrl(QUrl("https://www.gnu.org/software/guix";)); > return app.exec(); > }
Thanks a lot for this patch. I can confirm it builds fine, yet I have to test it on some Qt packages that need QtWebkit (Texmaker). Kind regards, Roel Janssen
