Building QtWebKit on Windows (Conan) (OUTDATED)

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This approach is used currently in CI system for building release binaries.

Preparation

There is no need to repeat this steps for each build, just do it when you build first time

Install C++ compiler - this manual works only for Visual Studio 2015 or 2017 or MinGW version shipped with Qt SDK. Using other versions of MinGW is possible but some adjustments to steps below will be needed (feel free to ask if you really need this). As for Visual Studio, older versions just won't work
Install Perl >= 5.14 (e.g. ActivePerl or StrawberryPerl)
Install Python 2.7 and Ruby >= 1.9
Download Ninja from https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/releases and put ninja.exe into location that it is present in %PATH%
Install Conan 0.24 with command pip install conan==0.24.0
Run

conan remote add qtproject https://api.bintray.com/conan/qtproject/conan --insert

Clone git repositories:

git clone git://code.qt.io/qt/qt5.git
cd qt5
git checkout 5.9
perl init-repository --module-subset=qtbase,qtdeclarative
git clone git://code.qt.io/qt/qtwebkit.git

Install Qt 5.9 binaries from http://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.9

If you want to use different version of Qt, replace 5.9 in checkout command and in your download URL with required version.

You may also want to build Qt from git sources that you've just downloaded, in this case you may need to add more modules to --module-subset. Full configuration requires qtlocation, qtsensors, qtwebchannel, and in case of MinGW also qtmultimedia.

Installing QtWebKit dependencies

Make build directory, below I assume that it is qt5-build/qtwebkit at the same directory level as your qt5
Run following command in the build directory

NOTE: don't try to adjust Windows version in paths to your OS version, it must be used exactly as it's written

MSVC 2015 32-bit:

conan install -f ..\..\qt5\coin\provisioning\qtci-windows-10-x86\conanfiles\qtwebkit.txt -s arch=x86 -s compiler="Visual Studio" -s compiler.version=14 -s compiler.runtime=MD -g cmake

MSVC 2015 64-bit:

conan install -f ..\..\qt5\coin\provisioning\qtci-windows-10-x86\conanfiles\qtwebkit.txt -s arch=x86_64 -s compiler="Visual Studio" -s compiler.version=14 -s compiler.runtime=MD -g cmake

MSVC 2017 32-bit:

conan install -f ..\..\qt5\coin\provisioning\qtci-windows-10-x86\conanfiles\qtwebkit.txt -s arch=x86 -s compiler="Visual Studio" -s compiler.version=15 -s compiler.runtime=MD -g cmake

MSVC 2017 64-bit:

conan install -f ..\..\qt5\coin\provisioning\qtci-windows-10-x86\conanfiles\qtwebkit.txt -s arch=x86_64 -s compiler="Visual Studio" -s compiler.version=15 -s compiler.runtime=MD -g cmake

MinGW-w64 5.3.0 32-bit as bundled with Qt:

conan install -f ..\..\qt5\coin\provisioning\qtci-windows-7-x86\conanfiles\qtwebkit.txt -s arch=x86 -s compiler=gcc -s compiler.version=5.3 -s compiler.libcxx="libstdc++11" -g cmake