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democrite · 11-28-2021, 06:50 PM

I thought I'd give it a go since it should be possible to build Apple Silicon and Universal on Intel.

First trying the patches for QtWebEngine, I found some files are not there. From what I can tell, the needed updates to Qt5 exist only in 5.15.3+ which is now LTS and commercial only. Maybe it can work somehow in 5.15.2 but I haven't tried a compile yet. Seems there is uproar that 5.15 maintenance is no longer open source. Later I will see if 5.15.2 works but perhaps it won't. If such is the case, then maybe a AS build is far off.

Perhaps such is a factor that led Kovid to already start the migration to Qt6.

Edit: not familiar with Qt, I found the needed qtwebengine on GitHub. As there is mention of qtbase 5.15.2, though the patcher did not try it, seems like it could be fine. I’ll continue a bit later.

11-28-2021, 06:50 PM	#10
democrite Evangelist Posts: 441 Karma: 77256 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: none	Sigil on Apple M1 running under Rosetta 2? I thought I'd give it a go since it should be possible to build Apple Silicon and Universal on Intel. First trying the patches for QtWebEngine, I found some files are not there. From what I can tell, the needed updates to Qt5 exist only in 5.15.3+ which is now LTS and commercial only. Maybe it can work somehow in 5.15.2 but I haven't tried a compile yet. Seems there is uproar that 5.15 maintenance is no longer open source. Later I will see if 5.15.2 works but perhaps it won't. If such is the case, then maybe a AS build is far off. Perhaps such is a factor that led Kovid to already start the migration to Qt6. Edit: not familiar with Qt, I found the needed qtwebengine on GitHub. As there is mention of qtbase 5.15.2, though the patcher did not try it, seems like it could be fine. I’ll continue a bit later. Last edited by democrite; 11-28-2021 at 07:05 PM.