Building Qt-4.8.7 and qtwebkit-2.3.4 Separately with VS2012 on Windows
Building Qt on Windows is quite a difficult work, while the work on OS X and Ubuntu is really simple. The main problem is QtWebKit. Official release provides precompiled Qt4 SDKs for VS2010 but not VS2012; project qt64ng on http://sourceforge.net/projects/qt64ng/ also provides Qt4 SDKs for VS2012 and VS2013, but not detail building steps.
Tutorials on internet provide some instructions on building Qt-4.8 with VS2012, but the generated QtWebKit4.dll doesn't work, encountering error StackHash_0a9e (tested on Win7 and Win10). This tutorial focus on details of building Qt-4.8.7, qtwebkit-2.3.4 and qtcreator-2.8.1.
Preparations
Install Visual Studio 2012 Express for Desktop
Use tool 'Developer Command Prompt for VS2012' for following jobs.
Install perl
http://www.activestate.com/activeperl
Build OpenSSL
Download source code: http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.2d.tar.gz
Decompress to directory: C:\Users\username\Downloads\openssl-1.0.2d
Compile and install(installing directory: C:\OpenSSL)
cd C:\Users\username\Downloads\openssl-1.0.2d
perl Configure VC-WIN32 no-asm --prefix=C:\OpenSSL
ms\do_ms
nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak
nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak install
Append C:\OpenSSL\bin to system path
Build Qt-4.8.7 without qtwebkit(-no-webkit)
Change work directory to Qt source root directory, and run：
configure -mp -prefix C:\Qt\4.8.7 -release -confirm-license -opensource -qt-zlib -qt-libjpeg -qt-libpng -qt-libmng qt-libtiff -no-qt3support -no-webkit -nomake demos -nomake examples -openssl -I C:\OpenSSL\include -L C:\OpenSSL\lib
Compile Qt source:
namke
(It takes about 2hr to finish compiling.)
Install Qt SDK:
namke install
Append C:/Qt/4.8.7/bin to system path
Build QtWebKit-2.3.4
Download source code from
http://download.kde.org/stable/qtwebkit-2.3/2.3.4/src/qtwebkit-2.3.4.tar.gz
Note that the lastest WebKit source code from webkit.org doesn't support .
Install necessary tools for building qtwebkit:
GNUWIN32
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/ or from gnuwin32 in Qt-5.5.0 source code directory
python
https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.10/python-2.7.10.msi
ruby
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
perl(already installed)
http://www.activestate.com/activeperl
Make sure binaries directories of above tools are in system path.
sqlite source code
http://sqlite.org/2015/sqlite-amalgamation-3081101.zip
Decompress it to:
C:\Users\username\Downloads\sqlite3
Compile qtwebkit:
set SQLITE3SRCDIR=C:\Users\username\Downloads\sqlite3
set QTDIR=C:\Qt\4.8.7
perl Tools\Scripts\build-webkit --qt --release
It takes about 4hr to finish compiling.
Install QtWebKit:
cd WebKitBuild/Release
nmake install
Test QtWebKit
In fact，after buidling QtWebKit，a test program called QtTestBrowser.exe is located in WebKitBuild/Release/bin directory.
Your can also build project browser in Qt source directory(say %QTSRC%/demos):
cd %QTSRC%/demos/browser
qmake
nmake
Building QtCreator-2.8.1 with Qt-4.8.7 and MSVC 2012
cd %QTCREATORSRC%
qmake CONFIG+=release qtcreator.pro
nmake
namke install INSTALL_ROOT=C:\Qt\qtcreator-2.8.1
You will encouter following errors：
c:\users\username\downloads\qt-creator-2.8.1-src\src\libs\utils\consoleprocess _p.h(49) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'private\qwineventnotifi er_p.h': No such file or directory winutils.cpp Generating Code... NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\BI N\cl.EXE"' : return code '0x2' Stop. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\BI N\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2' Stop. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2' Stop. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2' Stop. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2' Stop.
The reason is that some headers haven't been installed, you should copy headers in directory
C:\Users\username\Downloads\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.7\src\corelib\kernel
to
C:\Qt\4.8.7\include\QtCore\private
then, run nmake to continue.
Enjoy Qt built by yourself!
References
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/qt4.html