Qt 5.5.0 an Qt 5.5.1, QWebEngine, QtWebKit and ICU

Notes about compiling QtWebEngine (instead of QtWebkit) together with Qt 5.5.1

Qt 5.5.0 configure switches for ICU:

configure \
    -icu \
    -I Q:\SharedLibraries\icu4c-51_1\icu\include \
    -L Q:\SharedLibraries\icu4c-51_1\icu\lib64

Starting with 5.5.1 it shouldn’t be necessary to compile and ship ICU libraries because ICU should be included in Qt package itself.

Compile QtWebkit

It’s necessary to compile it as standalone module.

cd Qt/qtwebkit
perl Tools\Scripts\build-webkit

Simpler solution

Much easier solution seem to be to use http://www.awesomium.com/  😉

Notes:

• When changing configure settings, it’s sometimes necessary to perform complete clean rebuild. The  best way how to do that is download completely new source package.
• nmake clean or nmake distclean unfortunately didn’t work for 100%
• It’s necessary to have installed Ruby, Python and Perl

Source links:

• Source download links for Qt 5.5.1: http://www.qt.io/download-open-source/#section-2
• Precompiled ICU downloads for Windows: http://www.npcglib.org/~stathis/blog/precompiled-icu/
• Qt instructions about QtWebEngine: https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine_on_Windows

Other info:

• http://pempek.net/articles/2015/10/18/compiling-qt-5-5-1-with-visual-studio-2015/
• https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git
• https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine_on_Windows
• https://wiki.qt.io/How_to_Try_QtWebEngine
• http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingQtOnWindows
• http://www.ics.com/blog/building-qtwebengine