Re: QT5 and/or QT6 ?

Replying to myself...

On 10/14/2025 11:34 PM, Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Hi Marco,
> 
> On 10/14/2025 11:15 PM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> Hi Maintainers,
>> Anyone one working on them ?
>> If so what is the status ?
> 
> I have a local test build of qt5-base 5.15.17 from last May.  It was 
> based on ASSI's substantial work previous.  I am unsure how robust it 
> is; I believe I had some issue trying to upload it and set it aside.
> And then real life ensued.  Let me investigate a bit to say more.
> 
> I have not looked into Qt6 at all.
> 

OK.  5.15.17 was, at that time, the last Qt5 release Qt Corp was going 
to make.  That, plus my belief that I had a possible fix for the 
long-standing gnuplot vs Qt-terminal issue to hand, was why I was 
looking into building a newer Qt5 for Cygwin.  Hats off to Achim for 
doing most of the work towards getting a newer-than-5.9.4 Qt5 buildable 
on Cygwin.

I tried several variations on my fix but was unable to solve the issue.
Stymied by excessive abstractionism IMO within the source.  The only 
other thing I can say about my test build is that it passes 'cygport 
test' but that doesn't seem to actually test anything.

I could either upload this test package (but I'd need permission for 
that) or I could publish the .cygport+patchfiles someplace you can 
download from.  Let me know if you'd prefer either course.
Cheers & Regards,

..mark