Building QT6.4 on Ubuntu 22.04

I installed required packages:

sudo apt install build-essential
sudo apt install libx11-dev
sudo apt install ninja-build
sudo apt install openssl libssl-dev
sudo apt install libmd4c-dev libmd4c-html0-dev
sudo apt install pkg-config
sudo apt install mesa-utils libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev mesa-common-dev
sudo apt install libglew-dev libglfw3-dev libglm-dev
sudo apt install libao-dev libmpg123-dev

configured QT as follows:

cd ~
mkdir repos
cd repos
tar xf /mnt/d/dev.distrib/qt-everywhere-src-6.4.0.tar.xz
cd ~
mkdir -p build/qt
cd build/qt
export MY_INSTALL_PATH=/home/def/libs/QT6.4
export QT_SRC_PATH=/home/def/repos/qt-everywhere-src-6.4.0

${QT_SRC_PATH}/configure -prefix $MY_INSTALL_PATH -DQT_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -debug-and-release -force-debug-info -opensource -confirm-license \
  -c++std c++20 -static -static-runtime -openssl-linked \
  -skip qt3d -skip qt5compat -skip qtactiveqt -skip qtcharts -skip qtcoap -skip qtconnectivity \
  -skip qtdatavis3d -skip qtdoc -skip qtlottie -skip qtmqtt -skip qtnetworkauth -skip qtopcua \
  -skip qtserialport -skip qtpositioning -skip qtquicktimeline -skip qtquick3d -skip qtremoteobjects \
  -skip qtscxml -skip qtsensors -skip qtserialbus -skip qtvirtualkeyboard -skip qtwayland \
  -skip qtwebchannel -skip qtwebengine -skip qtwebview -skip qtquick3dphysics -skip qtspeech -skip qtlocation \
  -skip qthttpserver

and got the following output:

+ mkdir -p qtbase
+ cd qtbase
+ exec /home/def/repos/qt-everywhere-src-6.4.0/qtbase/configure -top-level -prefix /home/def/libs/QT6.4 -DQT_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -debug-and-release -force-debug-info -opensource -confirm-license -c++std c++20 -static -static-runtime -openssl-linked -skip qt3d -skip qt5compat -skip qtactiveqt -skip qtcharts -skip qtcoap -skip qtconnectivity -skip qtdatavis3d -skip qtdoc -skip qtlottie -skip qtmqtt -skip qtnetworkauth -skip qtopcua -skip qtserialport -skip qtpositioning -skip qtquicktimeline -skip qtquick3d -skip qtremoteobjects -skip qtscxml -skip qtsensors -skip qtserialbus -skip qtvirtualkeyboard -skip qtwayland -skip qtwebchannel -skip qtwebengine -skip qtwebview -skip qtquick3dphysics -skip qtspeech -skip qtlocation -skip qthttpserver
'/usr/bin/cmake' '-DBUILD_qt3d=OFF' '-DBUILD_qt5compat=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtactiveqt=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtcharts=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtcoap=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtconnectivity=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtdatavis3d=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtdoc=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtlottie=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtmqtt=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtnetworkauth=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtopcua=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtserialport=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtpositioning=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtquicktimeline=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtquick3d=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtremoteobjects=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtscxml=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtsensors=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtserialbus=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtvirtualkeyboard=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtwayland=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtwebchannel=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtwebengine=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtwebview=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtquick3dphysics=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtspeech=OFF' '-DBUILD_qtlocation=OFF' '-DBUILD_qthttpserver=OFF' '-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF' '-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/def/libs/QT6.4' '-DCMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES=RelWithDebInfo;Debug' '-DQT_EXTRA_DEFINES=QT_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1' '-DINPUT_cxx14=yes' '-DINPUT_cxx17=yes' '-DINPUT_cxx20=yes' '-DINPUT_static_runtime=yes' '-DINPUT_openssl=linked' '-G' 'Ninja Multi-Config' '/home/def/repos/qt-everywhere-src-6.4.0'
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 11.2.0
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 11.2.0
-- The ASM compiler identification is GNU
-- Found assembler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
Checking dependencies of submodule 'qtbase'
Checking dependencies of submodule 'qtimageformats'
Checking dependencies of submodule 'qtlanguageserver'
Checking dependencies of submodule 'qtshadertools'
Checking dependencies of submodule 'qtsvg'
Checking dependencies of submodule 'qtdeclarative'
Checking dependencies of submodule 'qtmultimedia'
Checking dependencies of submodule 'qttools'
Skipping optional dependency 'qtactiveqt' of 'qttools', because building 'qtactiveqt' was explicitly disabled.
Checking dependencies of submodule 'qtwebsockets'
Checking dependencies of submodule 'qttranslations'
Configuring submodule 'qtbase'
CMake Warning (dev) at qtbase/cmake/3rdparty/extra-cmake-modules/find-modules/FindXCB.cmake:180 (message):
  XINPUT from XCB was requested: this is EXPERIMENTAL and is likely to
  unavailable on many systems!
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  qtbase/cmake/QtFindPackageHelpers.cmake:130 (find_package)
  qtbase/src/gui/configure.cmake:123 (qt_find_package)
  qtbase/cmake/QtFeature.cmake:573 (include)
  qtbase/src/CMakeLists.txt:12 (qt_feature_evaluate_features)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

QtCore: WARNING: /home/def/repos/qt-everywhere-src-6.4.0/qtbase/src/corelib/tools/qatomicscopedvaluerollback_p.h does not have the "We mean it." warning
CMake Warning (dev) at qtbase/cmake/3rdparty/extra-cmake-modules/find-modules/FindXCB.cmake:180 (message):
  XINPUT from XCB was requested: this is EXPERIMENTAL and is likely to
  unavailable on many systems!
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  qtbase/cmake/QtFindPackageHelpers.cmake:130 (find_package)
  qtbase/src/gui/configure.cmake:123 (qt_find_package)
  qtbase/cmake/QtModuleHelpers.cmake:612 (include)
  qtbase/src/gui/CMakeLists.txt:53 (qt_internal_add_module)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

Configuring submodule 'qtimageformats'
Configuring submodule 'qtlanguageserver'
Configuring submodule 'qtshadertools'
Configuring submodule 'qtsvg'
Configuring submodule 'qtdeclarative'
QtQuickDialogs2QuickImpl: WARNING: /home/def/repos/qt-everywhere-src-6.4.0/qtdeclarative/src/quickdialogs2/quickdialogs2quickimpl/qquickcolordialogutils_p.h does not have the "We mean it." warning
shaders/SaturationLightness.frag -> shaders/SaturationLightness.frag.qsb exposed as :/qt-project.org/imports/QtQuick/Dialogs/quickimpl/shaders/SaturationLightness.frag.qsb
QtQmlDom: WARNING: /home/def/repos/qt-everywhere-src-6.4.0/qtdeclarative/src/qmldom/standalone/private/qtqmlcompilerexports_p.h does not have the "We mean it." warning
Configuring submodule 'qtmultimedia'
Configuring submodule 'qt3d'
Configuring submodule 'qt5compat'
Configuring submodule 'qtactiveqt'
Configuring submodule 'qtcharts'
Configuring submodule 'qtcoap'
Configuring submodule 'qtconnectivity'
Configuring submodule 'qtdatavis3d'
Configuring submodule 'qttools'
-- Could NOT find Clang (missing: Clang_DIR)
-- Could NOT find Clang (missing: Clang_DIR)
QtDesigner: WARNING: /home/def/repos/qt-everywhere-src-6.4.0/qttools/src/designer/src/lib/uilib/formbuilder.h includes abstractformbuilder.h when it should include QtDesigner/abstractformbuilder.h
Configuring submodule 'qtdoc'
Configuring submodule 'qtwebsockets'
CMake Warning (dev) at /home/def/build/qt/qtbase/lib/cmake/Qt6Qml/Qt6QmlBuildInternals.cmake:410 (message):
  INSTALL_SOURCE_QMLTYPES option is deprecated and should not be used.
  Please port your module to use declarative type registration.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  qtwebsockets/src/imports/qmlwebsockets/CMakeLists.txt:1 (qt_internal_add_qml_module)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

Configuring submodule 'qthttpserver'
Configuring submodule 'qtlottie'
Configuring submodule 'qtmqtt'
Configuring submodule 'qtnetworkauth'
Configuring submodule 'qtopcua'
Configuring submodule 'qtserialport'
Configuring submodule 'qtpositioning'
Configuring submodule 'qtquicktimeline'
Configuring submodule 'qtquick3d'
Configuring submodule 'qtquick3dphysics'
Configuring submodule 'qtremoteobjects'
Configuring submodule 'qtscxml'
Configuring submodule 'qtsensors'
Configuring submodule 'qtserialbus'
Configuring submodule 'qtspeech'
Configuring submodule 'qttranslations'
CMake Warning at qttranslations/translations/CMakeLists.txt:37 (message):
  Directory
  '/home/def/repos/qt-everywhere-src-6.4.0/qttranslations/translations/../../qtlocation/src'
  for qtlocation does not exist.  Skipping...
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  qttranslations/translations/CMakeLists.txt:105 (add_ts_targets)


CMake Warning at qttranslations/translations/CMakeLists.txt:44 (message):
  No source files located for qtlocation, skipping target creation
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  qttranslations/translations/CMakeLists.txt:105 (add_ts_targets)


Configuring submodule 'qtvirtualkeyboard'
Configuring submodule 'qtwayland'
Configuring submodule 'qtwebchannel'
Configuring submodule 'qtwebengine'
Configuring submodule 'qtwebview'

-- Configuration summary shown below. It has also been written to /home/def/build/qt/config.summary
-- Configure with --log-level=STATUS or higher to increase CMake's message verbosity. The log level does not persist across reconfigurations.

-- Configure summary:

Building for: linux-g++ (x86_64, CPU features: mmx sse sse2)
Compiler: gcc 11.2.0
Build options:
  Mode ................................... debug and release (with debug info)
  Optimize debug build ................... yes
  Optimize release build for size ........ no
  Fully optimize release builds (-O3) .... no
  Building shared libraries .............. no
  Using C standard ....................... C11
  Using C++ standard ..................... C++20
  Using ccache ........................... no
  Using new DTAGS ........................ yes
  Generating GDB index ................... no
  Relocatable ............................ no
  Using precompiled headers .............. yes
  Using LTCG ............................. no
  Using Intel CET ........................ yes
  Target compiler supports:
    SSE .................................. SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4.1 SSE4.2
    AVX .................................. AVX AVX2 VAES
    AVX512 ............................... F ER CD PF DQ BW VL IFMA VBMI AVX512VBMI2
    Other x86 ............................ AES F16C RDRAND SHA
  Sanitizers:
    Addresses ............................ no
    Threads .............................. no
    Memory ............................... no
    Fuzzer (instrumentation only) ........ no
    Undefined ............................ no
  Build parts ............................ libs tools
Qt modules and options:
  Qt Concurrent .......................... yes
  Qt D-Bus ............................... yes
  Qt D-Bus directly linked to libdbus .... no
  Qt Gui ................................. yes
  Qt Network ............................. yes
  Qt PrintSupport ........................ yes
  Qt Sql ................................. yes
  Qt Testlib ............................. yes
  Qt Widgets ............................. yes
  Qt Xml ................................. yes
Support enabled for:
  Using pkg-config ....................... yes
  udev ................................... no
  Using system zlib ...................... no
  Zstandard support ...................... no
  Thread support ......................... yes
Common build options:
  Linker can resolve circular dependencies  yes
Qt Core:
  backtrace .............................. yes
  DoubleConversion ....................... yes
    Using system DoubleConversion ........ no
  GLib ................................... no
  ICU .................................... no
  Using system libb2 ..................... no
  Built-in copy of the MIME database ..... yes
  cpp/winrt base ......................... no
  Tracing backend ........................ <none>
  Logging backends:
    journald ............................. no
    syslog ............................... no
    slog2 ................................ no
  PCRE2 .................................. yes
    Using system PCRE2 ................... no
  CLONE_PIDFD support in forkfd .......... yes
Qt Sql:
  SQL item models ........................ yes
Qt Network:
  getifaddrs() ........................... yes
  IPv6 ifname ............................ yes
  libproxy ............................... no
  Linux AF_NETLINK ....................... yes
  OpenSSL ................................ yes
    Qt directly linked to OpenSSL ........ yes
  OpenSSL 1.1 ............................ yes
  DTLS ................................... yes
  OCSP-stapling .......................... yes
  SCTP ................................... no
  Use system proxies ..................... yes
  GSSAPI ................................. no
  Brotli Decompression Support ........... no
  qTopLevelDomain() ...................... yes
    Built-in publicsuffix database ....... yes
    System publicsuffix database ......... yes
Core tools:
  Android deployment tool ................ yes
  macOS deployment tool .................. no
  Windows deployment tool ................ no
  qmake .................................. yes
Qt Gui:
  Accessibility .......................... yes
  FreeType ............................... yes
    Using system FreeType ................ no
  HarfBuzz ............................... yes
    Using system HarfBuzz ................ no
  Fontconfig ............................. no
  Image formats:
    GIF .................................. yes
    ICO .................................. yes
    JPEG ................................. yes
      Using system libjpeg ............... no
    PNG .................................. yes
      Using system libpng ................ no
  Text formats:
    HtmlParser ........................... yes
    CssParser ............................ yes
    OdfWriter ............................ yes
    MarkdownReader ....................... yes
      Using system libmd4c ............... yes
    MarkdownWriter ....................... yes
  EGL .................................... yes
  OpenVG ................................. no
  OpenGL:
    Desktop OpenGL ....................... yes
    OpenGL ES 2.0 ........................ no
    OpenGL ES 3.0 ........................ no
    OpenGL ES 3.1 ........................ no
    OpenGL ES 3.2 ........................ no
  Vulkan ................................. yes
  Session Management ..................... yes
Features used by QPA backends:
  evdev .................................. yes
  libinput ............................... no
  HiRes wheel support in libinput ........ no
  INTEGRITY HID .......................... no
  mtdev .................................. no
  tslib .................................. no
  xkbcommon .............................. no
  X11 specific:
    XLib ................................. yes
    XCB Xlib ............................. no
    EGL on X11 ........................... yes
    xkbcommon-x11 ........................ no
    xcb-sm ............................... no
QPA backends:
  DirectFB ............................... no
  EGLFS .................................. yes
  EGLFS details:
    EGLFS OpenWFD ........................ no
    EGLFS i.Mx6 .......................... no
    EGLFS i.Mx6 Wayland .................. no
    EGLFS RCAR ........................... no
    EGLFS EGLDevice ...................... yes
    EGLFS GBM ............................ no
    EGLFS VSP2 ........................... no
    EGLFS Mali ........................... no
    EGLFS Raspberry Pi ................... no
    EGLFS X11 ............................ no
  LinuxFB ................................ yes
  VNC .................................... yes
  VK_KHR_display ......................... yes
  QNX:
    lgmon ................................ no
    IMF .................................. no
  XCB:
    Using system-provided xcb-xinput ..... no
    GL integrations:
      GLX Plugin ......................... no
        XCB GLX .......................... no
      EGL-X11 Plugin ..................... no
  Windows:
    Direct 2D ............................ no
    Direct 2D 1.1 ........................ no
    DirectWrite .......................... no
    DirectWrite 3 ........................ no
Qt Widgets:
  GTK+ ................................... no
  Styles ................................. Fusion Windows
Qt Testlib:
  Tester for item models ................. yes
Qt PrintSupport:
  CUPS ................................... no
Qt Sql Drivers:
  DB2 (IBM) .............................. no
  InterBase .............................. no
  MySql .................................. no
  OCI (Oracle) ........................... no
  ODBC ................................... no
  PostgreSQL ............................. no
  SQLite ................................. yes
    Using system provided SQLite ......... no
Further Image Formats:
  JasPer ................................. no
  MNG .................................... no
  TIFF ................................... yes
    Using system libtiff ................. no
  WEBP ................................... yes
    Using system libwebp ................. no
Qt QML:
  QML network support .................... yes
  QML debugging and profiling support .... yes
  QML just-in-time compiler .............. yes
  QML XML http request ................... yes
  QML Locale ............................. yes
Qt QML Models:
  QML list model ......................... yes
  QML delegate model ..................... yes
Qt Quick:
  AnimatedImage item ..................... yes
  Canvas item ............................ yes
  Support for Qt Quick Designer .......... yes
  Flipable item .......................... yes
  GridView item .......................... yes
  ListView item .......................... yes
  TableView item ......................... yes
  TreeView item .......................... yes
  Path support ........................... yes
  PathView item .......................... yes
  Positioner items ....................... yes
  Repeater item .......................... yes
  ShaderEffect item ...................... yes
  Sprite item ............................ yes
Qt Quick Templates 2:
  Hover support .......................... yes
  Multi-touch support .................... yes
  Calendar support ....................... yes
Qt Quick Controls 2:
  Styles ................................. Basic Fusion Imagine iOS Material Universal macOS Windows
Qt Multimedia:
  Spatial Audio .......................... yes
  Spatial Audio (Quick3D) ................ no
  Low level Audio Backend:
    ALSA (experimental) .................. no
    PulseAudio ........................... no
    MMRenderer ........................... no
    CoreAudio ............................ no
    Windows Media SDK .................... no
    Open SLES (Android) .................. no
    Web Assembly ......................... no
  Plugin:
    GStreamer 1.0 ........................ no
    FFmpeg ............................... no
    MMRenderer ........................... no
    AVFoundation ......................... no
    Windows Media Foundation ............. no
  Hardware acceleration and features:
    Video for Linux ...................... yes
    VAAPI support ........................ no
    Linux DMA buffer support ............. yes
    VideoToolbox ......................... no
Qt Tools:
  Qt Assistant ........................... yes
  QDoc ................................... no
  Clang-based lupdate parser ............. no
  Qt Designer ............................ yes
  Qt Distance Field Generator ............ yes
  Qt Linguist ............................ yes
  pixeltool .............................. yes
  qdbus .................................. yes
  Qt Attributions Scanner ................ yes
  qtdiag ................................. yes
  qtplugininfo ........................... yes


Note: Using static linking will disable the use of dynamically loaded plugins. Make sure to import all needed static plugins, or compile needed modules into the library.
Note: When linking against OpenSSL, you can override the default library names through OPENSSL_LIBS. For example: OPENSSL_LIBS='-L/opt/ssl/lib -lssl -lcrypto' ./configure -openssl-linked

WARNING: Feature static_runtime is insignificant in this configuration, ignoring related command line option(s).
WARNING: No backend for low level audio found.
WARNING: QDoc will not be compiled, probably because libclang could not be located. This means that you cannot build the Qt documentation.
Either set CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or LLVM_INSTALL_DIR to the location of your llvm installation.
On Linux systems, you may be able to install libclang by installing the libclang-dev or libclang-devel package, depending on your distribution.
On macOS, you can use Homebrew's llvm package.
You will also need to set the FEATURE_clang CMake variable to ON to re-evaluate thi--

Qt is now configured for building. Just run 'cmake --build . --parallel'

Once everything is built, you must run 'ninja install'
Qt will be installed into '/home/def/libs/QT6.4'

To configure and build other Qt modules, you can use the following convenience script:
        /home/def/libs/QT6.4/bin/qt-configure-module

If reconfiguration fails for some reason, try removing 'CMakeCache.txt' from the build directory

s check.
WARNING: Clang-based lupdate parser will not be available. LLVM and Clang C++ libraries have not been found.
You will need to set the FEATURE_clangcpp CMake variable to ON to re-evaluate this check.

-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
CMake Warning:
  Manually-specified variables were not used by the project:

    BUILD_qtlocation


-- Build files have been written to: /home/def/build/qt

It compiled successfully, but with a lot of warnings:

cmake --build . --parallel

and I installed with

ninja install

Configuring with dynamic libs and runtime:

${QT_SRC_PATH}/configure -prefix $MY_INSTALL_PATH -DQT_NO_EXCEPTIONS=1 -debug-and-release -force-debug-info -opensource -confirm-license \
  -c++std c++20 -openssl-linked \
  -skip qt3d -skip qt5compat -skip qtactiveqt -skip qtcharts -skip qtcoap -skip qtconnectivity \
  -skip qtdatavis3d -skip qtdoc -skip qtlottie -skip qtmqtt -skip qtnetworkauth -skip qtopcua \
  -skip qtserialport -skip qtpositioning -skip qtquicktimeline -skip qtquick3d -skip qtremoteobjects \
  -skip qtscxml -skip qtsensors -skip qtserialbus -skip qtvirtualkeyboard -skip qtwayland \
  -skip qtwebchannel -skip qtwebengine -skip qtwebview -skip qtquick3dphysics -skip qtspeech -skip qtlocation \
  -skip qthttpserver

2 Responses to Building QT6.4 on Ubuntu 22.04

  1. tortoise74 says:

    I had to add:

    apt install -y libclang-dev

  2. Glen M says:

    any resolution to the message: “No backend for low level audio found”?

    Also — the more generic way to install is `cmake –build . –target install`

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