6.10 Using Qt

6.10.1 Ports That Require Qt

Table 6-8. Variables for Ports That Use Qt

USE_QT_VER The port uses the Qt toolkit. The only possible value is 3. Appropriate parameters are passed to configure script and make.
USE_QT4 Specify tool and library dependencies for ports that use Qt 4. See Qt 4 component selection for more details.
QT_PREFIX Set to the path where Qt installed to (read-only variable).
MOC Set to the path of moc (read-only variable). Default set according to USE_QT_VER value.
QTCPPFLAGS Additional compiler flags passed via CONFIGURE_ENV for Qt toolkit. Default set according to USE_QT_VER.
QTCFGLIBS Additional libraries for linking passed via CONFIGURE_ENV for Qt toolkit. Default set according to USE_QT_VER.
QTNONSTANDARD Suppress modification of CONFIGURE_ENV, CONFIGURE_ARGS, CPPFLAGS and MAKE_ENV.

Table 6-9. Additional Variables for Ports That Use Qt 4.x

UIC Set to the path of uic (read-only variable).
QMAKE Set to the path of qmake (read-only variable).
QMAKESPEC Set to the path of configuration file for qmake (read-only variable).
QMAKEFLAGS Additional flags for qmake.
QT_INCDIR Set to Qt 4 include directories (read-only variable).
QT_LIBDIR Set to Qt 4 libraries path (read-only variable).
QT_PLUGINDIR Set to Qt 4 plugins path (read-only variable).

When USE_QT_VER is set to 3, some useful settings are passed to the configure script:

CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--with-qt-includes=${QT_PREFIX}/include \
			--with-qt-libraries=${QT_PREFIX}/lib \
			--with-extra-libs=${LOCALBASE}/lib \
			--with-extra-includes=${LOCALBASE}/include
CONFIGURE_ENV+=	MOC="${MOC}" LIBS="${QTCFGLIBS}" \
		QTDIR="${QT_PREFIX}" KDEDIR="${KDE_PREFIX}"
CPPFLAGS+=	${QTCPPFLAGS}

If USE_QT4 is set, the following settings are deployed:

CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--with-qt-includes=${QT_INCDIR} \
			--with-qt-libraries=${QT_LIBDIR} \
			--with-extra-libs=${LOCALBASE}/lib \
			--with-extra-includes=${LOCALBASE}/include
CONFIGURE_ENV+=	MOC="${MOC}" UIC="${UIC}" LIBS="${QTCFGLIBS}" \
		QMAKE="${QMAKE}" QMAKESPEC="${QMAKESPEC}" QTDIR="${QT_PREFIX}"
MAKE_ENV+=	QMAKESPEC="${QMAKESPEC}"

PLIST_SUB+=	QT_INCDIR_REL=${QT_INCDIR_REL} \
		QT_LIBDIR_REL=${QT_LIBDIR_REL} \
		QT_PLUGINDIR_REL=${QT_PLUGINDIR_REL}

6.10.2 Component Selection (Qt 4.x Only)

Individual Qt 4 tool and library dependencies must be specified in the USE_QT4 variable. Every component can be suffixed by either _build or _run, the suffix indicating whether the component should be depended on at buildtime or runtime, respectively. If unsuffixed, the component will be depended on at both build- and runtime. Usually, library components should be specified unsuffixed, tool components should be specified with the _build suffix and plugin components should be specified with the _run suffix. The most commonly used components are listed below (all available components are listed in _USE_QT4_ALL in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.qt.mk):

Table 6-10. Available Qt 4 Library Components

Name Description
corelib core library (can be omitted unless the port uses nothing but corelib)
gui graphical user interface library
network network library
opengl OpenGL library
qt3support Qt 3 compatibility library
qtestlib unit testing library
script script library
sql SQL library
xml XML library

You can determine which libraries the application depends on, by running ldd on the main executable after a successful compilation.

Table 6-11. Available Qt 4 Tool Components

Name Description
moc meta object compiler (needed for almost every Qt application at buildtime)
qmake Makefile generator / build utility
rcc resource compiler (needed if the application comes with *.rc or *.qrc files)
uic user interface compiler (needed if the application comes with *.ui files created by Qt Designer - in practice, every Qt application with a GUI)

Table 6-12. Available Qt 4 Plugin Components

Name Description
iconengines SVG icon engine plugin (if the application ships SVG icons)
imageformats imageformat plugins for GIF, JPEG, MNG and SVG (if the application ships image files)

Example 6-4. Selecting Qt 4 Components

In this example, the ported application uses the Qt 4 graphical user interface library, the Qt 4 core library, all of the Qt 4 code generation tools and Qt 4's Makefile generator. Since the gui library implies a dependency on the core library, corelib does not need to be specified. The Qt 4 code generation tools moc, uic and rcc, as well as the Makefile generator qmake are only needed at buildtime, thus they are specified with the _build suffix:

USE_QT4=	gui moc_build qmake_build rcc_build uic_build

6.10.3 Additional Considerations

If the application does not provide a configure file but a .pro file, you can use the following:

HAS_CONFIGURE=	yes

do-configure:
	@cd ${WRKSRC} && ${SETENV} ${CONFIGURE_ENV} \
		${QMAKE} ${QMAKEFLAGS} PREFIX=${PREFIX} texmaker.pro

Note the similarity to the qmake line from the provided BUILD.sh script. Passing CONFIGURE_ENV ensures qmake will see the QMAKESPEC variable, without which it cannot work. qmake generates standard Makefiles, so it is not necessary to write our own build target.

Qt applications often are written to be cross-platform and often X11/Unix is not the platform they are developed on, which in turn often leads to certain loose ends, like:

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