Re: Updated: qt5-base 5.15.18-2 (test)

Replying to myself...

On 1/4/2026 2:21 AM, Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi Marco,
> 
> On 1/3/2026 6:08 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 29/12/2025 10:37, Mark Geisert wrote:
>>> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>>>
>>> * libQt5Core5-5.15.18-2
>>> * libQt5Core-devel-5.15.18-2
>>> * libQt5Sql5-5.15.18-2
>>> * libQt5Sql-devel-5.15.18-2
>>> * libQt5Gui5-5.15.18-2
>>> * libQt5Gui-devel-5.15.18-2
>>> * qt5-base-doc-5.15.18-2
>>> * qt5-base-examples-5.15.18-2
> [...]
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> there is still an issue compiling a QT5 program
>>
>> using 5.15.18 with a simplified qscintilla2.cygport
>> (not QT4 and no Python) the build stops at linking phase
>>
>> g++ -shared -Wl,--out-implib,libqscintilla2_qt5.dll.a -o 
>> cygqscintilla2_qt5-13.dll qsciscintilla.o ....
>> ..  moc_ScintillaQt.o  -lpthread /usr/lib/cygQt5PrintSupport.dll /usr/ 
>> lib/cygQt5Widgets.dll /usr/lib/cygQt5Gui.dll /usr/lib/cygQt5Core.dll -lGL
>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/13/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: 
>> cannot find /usr/lib/cygQt5PrintSupport.dll: No such file or directory
>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/13/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: 
>> cannot find /usr/lib/cygQt5Widgets.dll: No such file or directory
>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/13/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: 
>> cannot find /usr/lib/cygQt5Gui.dll: No such file or directory
>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/13/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: 
>> cannot find /usr/lib/cygQt5Core.dll: No such file or directory
>>
>> with 5.9.4-x the build is without problems.
>>
>> Attached scintilla2.cygport and the logs for both cases.
> 
> Thanks for the report and all the logs.  "Something" is causing the link 
> step to look for DLLs in /usr/lib instead of /usr/bin.  What's in /usr/ 
> lib are static libraries (but their names look like libQt5*.dll.a).
> I've been running into this while building the Qt5 libraries too, and 
> I've been working around it in src_compile() by symlinking the needed 
> DLLs into /usr/lib and deleting them afterwards.  Ugly but effective.
> 
> If I apply that workaround to your qscintilla2.cygport, that gets past 
> these errors you reported.  Bad news is, the compile continues and needs 
> Qt5Designer, which I had not yet updated to 5.15.18.  I'm doing that 
> now.  We'll see if that's enough...

Qt5Designer is part of the qt5-tools package.  I've finally gotten the 
5.15.18 qt5-tools version to build, though packaging it is not quite 
there yet.  I'll try to solidify the packaging over next couple days.

I will be AFK next week and plan to take up scintilla2 upon my return.
Cheers,

..mark

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