[help] natron: support for qt6

[Martinfx]

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What does this pull request do? Enable support for QT6

[Your answer, explain the motivation for making this change.] qt5 will be at the end of its life

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Have you tested your changes (if applicable)? If so, how? I tested on FreeBSD now but there are some errors.

1. clone this branch
2. cmake ..

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[Martinfx]

FAILED: libs/qhttpserver/CMakeFiles/qhttpserver.dir/qhttpserver_autogen/mocs_compilation.cpp.o 
/usr/bin/c++ -DDEBUG -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII -I/usr/home/maxfx/Documents/FreeBSD-Ports/natron/work/.build/libs/qhttpserver/qhttpserver_autogen/include -I/usr/home/maxfx/Documents/FreeBSD-Ports/natron/work/Natron-2.5.1-pre2/libs/qhttpserver/http-parser -isystem /usr/local/include/qt6/QtCore -isystem /usr/local/include/qt6 -isystem /usr/local/lib/qt6/mkspecs/freebsd-clang -isystem /usr/local/include/qt6/QtNetwork -pipe -g -fstack-protector-strong -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -g -fstack-protector-strong -fno-strict-aliasing -std=gnu++17 -fPIC -Wall -Wextra -Wmissing-declarations -Wno-multichar -Winit-self -Wno-long-long -Wvla -Wdate-time -Wshift-overflow=2 -Wduplicated-cond -Wno-stringop-overflow -Wno-format-overflow -Wno-deprecated-copy -fPIC -pthread -MD -MT libs/qhttpserver/CMakeFiles/qhttpserver.dir/qhttpserver_autogen/mocs_compilation.cpp.o -MF libs/qhttpserver/CMakeFiles/qhttpserver.dir/qhttpserver_autogen/mocs_compilation.cpp.o.d -o libs/qhttpserver/CMakeFiles/qhttpserver.dir/qhttpserver_autogen/mocs_compilation.cpp.o -c /usr/home/maxfx/Documents/FreeBSD-Ports/natron/work/.build/libs/qhttpserver/qhttpserver_autogen/mocs_compilation.cpp
warning: unknown warning option '-Wshift-overflow=2'; did you mean '-Wshift-overflow'? [-Wunknown-warning-option]
warning: unknown warning option '-Wduplicated-cond' [-Wunknown-warning-option]
warning: unknown warning option '-Wno-stringop-overflow'; did you mean '-Wno-shift-overflow'? [-Wunknown-warning-option]
In file included from /usr/home/maxfx/Documents/FreeBSD-Ports/natron/work/.build/libs/qhttpserver/qhttpserver_autogen/mocs_compilation.cpp:3:
/usr/home/maxfx/Documents/FreeBSD-Ports/natron/work/.build/libs/qhttpserver/qhttpserver_autogen/UVLADIE3JM/moc_qhttprequest.cpp:227:52: error: conversion from 'HttpMethod' to 'QChar' is ambiguous
  227 |         case 3: *reinterpret_cast< QString*>(_v) = _t->method(); break;
      |                                                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/local/include/qt6/QtCore/qchar.h:76:26: note: candidate constructor
   76 |     constexpr Q_IMPLICIT QChar(ushort rc) noexcept : ucs(rc) {}
      |                          ^
/usr/local/include/qt6/QtCore/qchar.h:78:26: note: candidate constructor
   78 |     constexpr Q_IMPLICIT QChar(short rc) noexcept : ucs(char16_t(rc)) {}
      |                          ^
/usr/local/include/qt6/QtCore/qchar.h:83:26: note: candidate constructor
   83 |     constexpr Q_IMPLICIT QChar(char16_t ch) noexcept : ucs(ch) {}
      |                          ^
/usr/local/include/qt6/QtCore/qchar.h:612:5: note: candidate constructor has been explicitly deleted
  612 |     QChar(char c) = delete;
      |     ^
/usr/local/include/qt6/QtCore/qchar.h:613:5: note: candidate constructor has been explicitly deleted
  613 |     QChar(uchar c) = delete;
      |     ^
/usr/local/include/qt6/QtCore/qstring.h:177:30: note: passing argument to parameter 'c' here
  177 |     QString &operator=(QChar c);
      |                              ^
3 warnings and 1 error generated.

[devernay]

@acolwell can you sync with @Martinfx on Qt6 support? I think you were also working on this? May be this should be on a separate branch (RB-2.7?) since we haven't yet released Natron 2.6 with Qt5.

[rodlie]

May be this should be on a separate branch (RB-2.7?) since we haven't yet released Natron 2.6 with Qt5.

Agree.

IMHO RB-2.6 should stay on Qt 5.15 (maintained by upstream until 2026, also maintained in EL9 until 2032), so I see no rush to move to Qt6 on the "stable" branch.