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Build for windows cannot find qt everywhere #714

Closed sgourdas closed 2 months ago

sgourdas commented 2 months ago

When running kiwix-build kiwix-desktop --config win32_static I get the below error

prepare sources qt :
  download qt : Cannot download url http://ftp.oregonstate.edu/.1/blfs/conglomeration/qt5/qt-everywhere-src-5.10.1.tar.xz:
Not Found
ERROR

The link seems to be expired or am I doing something wrong?

mgautierfr commented 2 months ago

You are not doing something wrong. Qt is pretty difficult to install/compile automatically. kiwix-build should not try to do it (at least for now, we have some other priority than this).

720 is fixing that. If kiwix-build don't know how to install it from native packages (rpm/deb) it print a warning telling that you have to install it. (This is the case on Windows).

You have to install Qt (with Qtwebengine module) on your side using Qt official installer.

Please not that I'm currently working on the compilation of kiwix-desktop natively on Windows using kiwix-build. For now it is not functional. You may want to follow this work made on PR #719