Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add qtwebkit.

[Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org>]

Roel Janssen writes:

> Thomas Danckaert writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> this patch adds QtWebKit 5.7 as a separate package (hopefully this will reduce security concerns: only packages which really need QtWebKit will include it).
>>
>> QtWebKit is not officially supported anymore as of Qt 5.6, so this is a “community release” (not exactly sure what that entails, or if this includes any updates at all since the Qt 5.5 version).  I suppose many projects are switching to Qt WebEngine, and there are some efforts to create an updated version of QtWebKit (https://github.com/annulen/webkit), but in the mean time, this package might help build packages which still rely on the old QtWebKit.
>>
>> By default, the qmake build system for qtwebkit insists on installing into the same prefix as qtbase, and it seems no command line parameters will change that. The solution I came up with, was to substitute all the necessary paths in the generated Makefiles. This makes the patch a bit lengthy.
>>
>> I've also attached a minimal example.
>>
>> Thomas
>> QT += widgets
>> QT += webkit
>> QT += webkitwidgets
>> SOURCES = example.cpp
>>   
>> #include <QWebView>
>> #include <QApplication>
>>
>> int main(int argc, char** argv) {
>>     QApplication app(argc, argv);
>>     QWebView view;
>>     view.show();
>>     view.setUrl(QUrl("https://www.gnu.org/software/guix"));
>>     return app.exec();
>> }
>
> Thanks a lot for this patch.  I can confirm it builds fine, yet I have
> to test it on some Qt packages that need QtWebkit (Texmaker).

I think this patch works fine.  Unfortunately for me, it does not fix
Texmaker's build because it needs QtWebkitWidgets which is apparently a
different thing.

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen