Freezing Qt5 version -------------------------------- This plugin demonstrates freezing a version of Qt5 in a local plugin, possibly for Win XP support (see #1827, #1734). It's possible to simply stay on a git checkout, but then other toolchain features are also frozen. *N.B.* This is unsupported and exists solely as an example of how one might maintain a local version. ##### Overview Basic outline is to checkout a version, copy the makefile and patches, and lock the patches to the ones in this directory instead of core MXE src: ``` export PLUGIN_DIR=plugins/examples/qt5-freeze rm -rf $PLUGIN_DIR mkdir -p $PLUGIN_DIR # parent of Qt 5.8 update git checkout a0f9e61 # find all Qt5 modules and copy export QT5_PKGS=`grep -l qtbase_VERSION src/*.mk | sed -n 's,src/\(.*\)\.mk.*,\1,p' | tr '\n' ','` export QT5_PKGS=${QT5_PKGS}qtbase cp `eval echo src/{$QT5_PKGS}.mk` $PLUGIN_DIR cp `eval echo src/{$QT5_PKGS}-*.patch` $PLUGIN_DIR # set $(PKG)_PATCHES to only look for patches in the current directory # on macos, use `gsed` instead of `sed` find $PLUGIN_DIR -name "qt[^5]*.mk" -exec sed -i '9i$(PKG)_PATCHES := $(realpath $(sort $(wildcard $(dir $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))/$(PKG)-[0-9]*.patch)))' {} \; git checkout master ``` Now you'll have all the right versions, just some minor changes since `mysql` doesn't support XP (see #1394). In a real local scenario, the package should also be removed from `$(PKG)_DEPS` and `qtbase.mk` modified. `MXE_PLUGIN_DIRS` can also be added to `settings.mk` ``` make qt5 MXE_PLUGIN_DIRS=$PLUGIN_DIR qtbase_CONFIGURE_OPTS='-no-sql-mysql' ```