QWebView in jlqml
behzaadh opened this issue · 4 comments
Hello,
I wonder why you did not include QWebView in jlqml? any restriction that you tried to skip it?
The need hasn't appeared until now. It should be easy to add, we just need a JLL for the relevant Qt library and add a wrapper for QtWebView::initialize()
Yes, it is pretty easy by adding QtWebView::initialize() to a wrapper. However, the Julia cannot load QTWebEngine library, even though it is compiled using MSVC 2019. Can you help me how I can create a JLL for the relevant Qt library? should be the same compiler x86_64-w64-mingw32 in windows or it can be MSVC 2019?
It cannot work without a JLL package, and making one for QtWebView will need a few dependencies. I started the first PR on Yggdrasil here: JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil#8141
This is going to be a little more difficult than anticipated, Qt WebView contains chromium, which is not so easy to cross-compile it seems. Progress is here: JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil#8229
Note that you can run the script from that PR locally to create a JLL package without binaries and then use an Overrides.toml to point to your locally installed Qt, provided that you also build libcxxwrap_julia and jlqml (and depending on the platform Julia itself) from source, or if you feel up to it poke around with BinaryBuilder in --debug mode to try and complete the build.