[SOLVED] Can't build on Debian.

[N3tFX]

I tried to build v0.242 on Debian 11 (bullseye), but it failed with the message:

/bin/sh: 1: qmake-qt5: not found

I am pretty sure qmake for qt5 is install on the system, plus I never had problems building the previous versions. What am I doing wrong?

P.S. Glad to see you here and doing well, René.

[qmc2]

What's the name of the binary for running qmake? On most other platforms it's qmake-qt5, but it seems to be just "qmake" on Debian?

In this case, try

make DISTCFG=1

If this doesn't help, I'll try it myself tomorrow.

PS: you can also use

make QMAKE=/path/to/qmake

[N3tFX]

Both your solutions worked, but now it fails with:

Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: multimedia multimediawidgets

libqt5multimediawidgets5 is installed on the system.

Also, I had to clone the repository. The source package from the releases pages complaint that it wasn't a git repository (or something like that).

[qmc2]

Do you have the package "qtmultimedia5-dev" installed?

Ups, sorry for that. Seems "my fault" with the released version. I have to try that as well. Thanks for the input.

[qmc2]

Just for clarification regarding "my fault"... you received a message like

fatal: not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).

right? But it should have continued and build QMC2 just fine. At least it does that here.

[qmc2]

I have changed the Makefile (in the master branch) to redirect git output to stderr to /dev/null (or "nul" on Windows) in order to avoid confusion.

[N3tFX]

After installing qtmultimedia5-dev and using the make DISTCFG=1 flag the build worked fine.

But now I've encountered another problem. I used the PREFIX, SYSCONFDIR, DATADIR, MAN_DIR flags to install QMC2 to /opt/QMC2 but I can't. When I try make install without root privileges, I get an error:

Installing QMC2 v0.242 mkdir: cannot create directory ‘//usr/local/share/qmc2’: Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory ‘//etc/qmc2’: Permission denied make: *** [Makefile:1104: install] Error 1

I used to be able to install it in a custom folder before. How can I install all the files in a custom folder?

[qmc2]

Give some time, I have to check... I'm surprised it doesn't work.

[qmc2]

Actually, it should work because I didn't change anything of this.

Are PREFIX, SYSCONFDIR, DATADIR or MAN_DIR given on the "make install" command or are they defined as environment variables? Or do you set them in the Makefile? All three methods are supposed to work, though.

[qmc2]

Oh, and did you set these vars at compile time or only when installing? Note that you have to set at least SYSCONFDIR and DATADIR also at compile time!

[qmc2]

I've installed a little Debian 11 in a VM and it actually seems to be working just nicely, if I set the vars on every make command!

If there is already compiled code, note that you have to run

make DISTCFG=1 distclean

before you try again. Then do a

make DISTCFG=1 SYSCONFDIR=/my/sysconfdir PREFIX=/my/prefix

to build it. Then run the same command with "install":

make DISTCFG=1 SYSCONFDIR=/my/sysconfdir PREFIX=/my/prefix install

[qmc2]

Also, this is my list of installed Qt 5 packages, just in case:

root@debian:~# apt list --installed | grep qt5

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

libqt5concurrent5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-9 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5core5a/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-9 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5dbus5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-9 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5gui5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-9 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5multimedia5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2-3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5multimediagsttools5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2-3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5multimediaquick5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2-3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5multimediawidgets5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2-3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5network5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-9 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5opengl5-dev/stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-9 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5opengl5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-9 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5positioning5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5printsupport5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-9 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5qml5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-6 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5qmlmodels5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-6 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5qmlworkerscript5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-6 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5quick5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-6 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5quickparticles5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-6 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5quickshapes5/stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-6 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5quicktest5/stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-6 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5quickwidgets5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-6 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5script5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5scripttools5/stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5sensors5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5sql5-sqlite/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-9 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5sql5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-9 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5svg5-dev/stable,now 5.15.2-3 amd64 [installed]
libqt5svg5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2-3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5test5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-9 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5webchannel5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5webkit5-dev/stable,now 5.212.0~alpha4-11 amd64 [installed]
libqt5webkit5/unknown,stable,now 5.212.0~alpha4-11 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5widgets5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-9 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5xml5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-9 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev/stable,now 5.15.2-3 amd64 [installed]
libqt5xmlpatterns5/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2-3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
qt5-gtk-platformtheme/unknown,stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-9 amd64 [installed,automatic]
qt5-qmake-bin/stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-9 amd64 [installed,automatic]
qt5-qmake/stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-9 amd64 [installed,automatic]
qt5-qmltooling-plugins/stable,now 5.15.2+dfsg-6 amd64 [installed,automatic]

[N3tFX]

This is the command I used:

make PREFIX=/opt/QMC2 BINDIR=/opt/QMC2/local/bin SYSCONFDIR=/opt/QMC2/etc DATADIR=/opt/QMC2/usr/local/share MAN_DIR=/opt/QMC2/usr/local/man DISTCFG=1 -j5

I've also tried it in a folder in the /home/user space in order to avoid any permissions conflict with the /opt folder, but it also failed with the same message complaining about permissions. I don't know why this is happening. I've installed many apps with make install in the /opt folder (I have given write permissions to the user).

[N3tFX]

When it starts compiling the first lines are these:

Configuring build of QMC2 v0.242 /usr/bin/qmake -makefile -o Makefile.qmake VERSION=0.242 QMC2_MINGW=0 SDL=2 TARGET=qmc2-sdlmame CONFIG+=warn_off CONFIG+=release LIBS+='-lSDL2' INCLUDEPATH+='/usr/include/SDL2' 'DEFINES+=QMC2_SDLMAME QMC2_VERSION=0.242 BUILD_OS_NAME=Linux BUILD_OS_RELEASE=5.10.0-13-amd64 BUILD_MACHINE=x86_64 PREFIX=/opt/QMC2 DATADIR="/opt/QMC2/usr/local/share" SYSCONFDIR="/opt/QMC2/etc" QMC2_JOYSTICK=1 QMC2_PHONON=0 QMC2_MULTIMEDIA=1 QMC2_FADER_SPEED=500 QMC2_BROWSER_EXTRAS_ENABLED QMC2_BROWSER_PLUGINS_ENABLED QMC2_BROWSER_JAVA_ENABLED QMC2_BROWSER_JAVASCRIPT_ENABLED QMC2_YOUTUBE_ENABLED QMC2_BUNDLED_MINIZIP QMC2_BUNDLED_ZLIB _REENTRANT' qmc2.pro

It seems that it accepts the PREFIX, SYSCONFDIR, DATADIR new paths.

[N3tFX]

Success.

It seems that the problem was that I wasn't passing the PREFIX, SYSCONFDIR flags to the make install command also. Like this: make DISTCFG=1 SYSCONFDIR=/opt/QMC2/etc PREFIX=/opt/QMC2 install

Plus, I needed to install rsync to my system.

Thank you for your help.

[qmc2]

Great to hear that.