After many false leads I finally managed to complete a static build of Qelectrotech on Windows.
Learning a lot, I guess. I didn't end up using my complete static build of Qt, jasper, kcoreaddons and kwidgetaddons...
Here is a partial description, if I get a chance to do a clean VM build I should be able to fill in any blanks.
This was on a Win7 box, I may try it on Win10 next.
The whole install/build should be scriptable.
It may be an idea to add it to the WiKi, where it can be polished and kept up to date?
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So, the forum doesn't like URLs, and I couldn't post in-line, see attached text file for what I had written here!
1. Install Msys64
Instructions at https://www.msys2.org/
Download installer https://repo.msys2.org/distrib/x86_64/msys2-x86_64-20200720.exe
2. Install build environment with pacman ("pacman -Syuu" updates system, "pacman -S package_name" installs package)
Or install as required when attemt builds!
3. Install Qt5 Static build (Probably want to install default shared build as well)
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-static
4. Install the extras required for Qet, kcoreaddons and kwidgetaddons
Not currently available as packages, so have to build them yourself!
Clone the msys2/MINGW-packages repo https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages somewhere local
Fire up your Msys64 shell and:
git clone https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages.git
cd MINGW-packages
cd mingw-w64-kcoreaddons-qt5
KF5_VARIANT=static MINGW_INSTALLS=mingw64 makepkg-mingw -sLf
pacman -U mingw-w64-x86_64-kcoreddons-qt5-static-5.68.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
cd ..
cd cd mingw-w64-kwidgetsaddons-qt5
KF5_VARIANT=static MINGW_INSTALLS=mingw64 makepkg-mingw -sLf
pacman -U mingw-w64-x86_64-kwidgetsaddons-qt5-static-5.68.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
5. Clone the qelectrotech main or mirror repo if not already done
Details to be added:
Run up qtcreator from your Msys64 shell
Create a static build package, based on the static qmake
Open the qelectrotech.pro project from the repo
Attempt a build from qtcreator (which fails for me) (static, release only. debug is HUGE!)
cd to the build directory where the qtcreator build failed
mingw32-make
Which (for me) succeeds, despite appearing to run exactly the same commands that failed from qtcreator!
HowToBuildQetStaticQt.txt