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KevinH · 07-23-2023, 07:04 PM

Thanks for that link. The issue is deep inside the QtWebEngine Chrome extensions loading code that does not support arm64 page sizes in Qt 5.15.x which is needed for pdf support. The bug was in Chrome code. It works just fine in Qt6's newer QtWebEngine/Chrome codebase and we will be moving to Qt6 quite soon. So supporting Qt 5.15.x makes little sense for arm64 macs.

FWIW, Qt6.5.2 builds out of the box on arm64 macs running Ventura with no build patches needed.

07-23-2023, 07:04 PM	#23
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,911 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Thanks for that link. The issue is deep inside the QtWebEngine Chrome extensions loading code that does not support arm64 page sizes in Qt 5.15.x which is needed for pdf support. The bug was in Chrome code. It works just fine in Qt6's newer QtWebEngine/Chrome codebase and we will be moving to Qt6 quite soon. So supporting Qt 5.15.x makes little sense for arm64 macs. FWIW, Qt6.5.2 builds out of the box on arm64 macs running Ventura with no build patches needed. Last edited by KevinH; 07-23-2023 at 07:25 PM.