Dooble releases-Qt6

[Paul Smedley]

There are more recent sources than aug 23 in the main branch....

[Dave Yeo]

There are more recent sources than aug 23 in the main branch....

So it is main I should checkout?

[Paul Smedley]

There are more recent sources than aug 23 in the main branch....

So it is main I should checkout?

Yeah - main = 6.2.x - other branches are 6.3.x, 6.4.x and 6.5.x - current recommended qt6 & webengine builds are 6.2.x off of main.

I'm suspecting some kind of unicode issues in qt6-base-os2 but I could be very wrong...

[Dave Yeo]

I'm suspecting some kind of unicode issues in qt6-base-os2 but I could be very wrong...

That was my suspicion. I grepped through the Qt5 source for UniUconvToUcs, UniFreeUconvObject and CP850. Only CP850 gave any hits, mostly in libiconv and also in qtbase\src\corelib\codecs\qsimplecodec.cpp which doesn't even exist in Qt6 and doesn't seem relevant.
Thinking about it, Cairo Clock was broken and displaying unicode instead of the correct code page, as soon as it tried to display any umlauts or accents, it froze the WPS. Don't know if trying to display Unicode in the frame would do the same but assume so.

[Dave Yeo]

I guess it would be libicu or such that does the conversion.

[Paul Smedley]

I guess it would be libicu or such that does the conversion.

In which case it could be in https://github.com/psmedley/qt6-webengine-os2/tree/main/src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/icu

[Dave Yeo]

I guess it would be libicu or such that does the conversion.

In which case it could be in https://github.com/psmedley/qt6-webengine-os2/tree/main/src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/icu

Qt5's webengine uses the system libicu ver 68. Is there a build option to use the system ICU? Otherwise it might mean applying the system patches to the intree version 69. Seems every ICU update breaks compatibility with the previous release so not sure how hard that would be.

[Paul Smedley]

IIRC it needs ICU 69 hence the use of the in-tree ICU. pretty sure I applied all the patches from the bww port of ICU68 though - but it's always possible I screwed something up

[Dave Yeo]

Did you rebuild the ICU data files, or was rebuilding needed? See README.chromium in the icu directory. Other then that, I really don't know much about ICU.

[Paul Smedley]

Did you rebuild the ICU data files, or was rebuilding needed? See README.chromium in the icu directory. Other then that, I really don't know much about ICU.

I didn't.... hmmm looks like a PITA

[Paul Smedley]

Did you rebuild the ICU data files, or was rebuilding needed? See README.chromium in the icu directory. Other then that, I really don't know much about ICU.

I didn't.... hmmm looks like a PITA

OK I forked BWW icu and updated it to 69.1 (the version that chromium in 6.2.x uses) - https://github.com/psmedley/icu-os2

building it now...

Unfortunately the build is stopping with:

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make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/psmedley/icu-os2/source/data'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'out/tmp/icudata.lst', needed by 'build-local'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/psmedley/icu-os2/source/data'


[Paul Smedley]

OK hacked thru this, and rebuilding webengine with system icu...

[Dave Yeo]

OK hacked thru this, and rebuilding webengine with system icu...

Be nice if it is as simple as fixing libicu, otherwise likely somewhere in the widgets.

[Dave Yeo]

Remy, how do you have your environment set up to display French in Dooble? Guess I could install a French version of AOS but I failed French in school

[Paul Smedley]

OK hacked thru this, and rebuilding webengine with system icu...

Be nice if it is as simple as fixing libicu, otherwise likely somewhere in the widgets.

Agree it would be nice, however, OS/2 box keeps hanging/not responding trying to rebuild the webengine <sigh>

Sometimes it happens whilst getting close to making Qt6WebEn.dll - now it seems to repeatably hang/die whilst regenerating build files with gn. Have run jfs chkdsk and it shows clean...

Edit: ran cmake with --verbose and fingers crossed, seems to be getting further...

Edit2: got a DLL, but it's still not using system ICU