Roel Janssen writes: > 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).
I think this patch works fine. Unfortunately for me, it does not fix Texmaker's build because it needs QtWebkitWidgets which is apparently a different thing. Kind regards, Roel Janssen
