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3 Jul 2025 21:57:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: qtpovray and debian  
From: dick balaska
Date: 26 Jun 2018 20:08:01
Message: <5b32d561$1@news.povray.org>
On 06/26/2018 05:45 PM, jr wrote:
> hi,
> 
> dick balaska <dic### [at] buckosoftcom> wrote:
>> It could be one executable, but that's some work.  (Two vfe/frontends,
>> parse a command line, don't start the Qt loop). I can easily whip of a
>> copy of the current unix povray-3.8 but built with qmake.  Plus, even if
>> I don't start the gui, it's still linked to, and will load all of that
>> unused Qt graphics baggage.
> 
> out of interest, without gui, what are the differences to "stock" povray?

I should be equivalent to povray-3.8.0-alpha-something. My last merge 
was from the release/v3.8.0 branch on 2017-12-02.
povray on unix is built with autoconf/make/g++.
qtpovray on unix is built with qmake/make/g++.
If I did my job well, it will run exactly the same.

> 
> btw, installed Qt5 but hit another snag with the qtpovray build.  apparently,
> (q)make does not pick up the QT5DIR environment variable.  when make enters the
> 'qt/gui' directory, compilation fails with "does not name a type" error(s); it's
> not using the qt5 include files (in four of the -I switches).
> 

Try
$ qmake -qt=qt5 -r
or
$ export QT_SELECT=qt5
$ qmake -r

Ref:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/116254/how-do-i-change-which-version-of-qt-is-used-for-qmake

BTW, I am running two VMs for testing right now, Ubuntu 16 and Ubuntu 
18.  I've thought about spinning up a Slackware 14.1 because of you. :)

> 
> regards, jr.
> 
> 
> 


-- 
dik
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