[POC] build: Hello Qt 6 #24798

pull hebasto wants to merge 7 commits into bitcoin:master from hebasto:220406-qt6 changing 29 files +599 −425
  1. hebasto commented at 2:11 pm on April 7, 2022: member

    This is a draft of upgrading Qt in depends up to Qt 6.2 LTS.

    The motivation is:

    • Qt 6 seems (almost) inevitable in the future
    • this change drops all of the backported patches (but introduces a new one)

    Tasks

    • backport the QTBUG-86080 fix
    • integrate Qt 6 into build-aux/m4/bitcoin_qt.m4
    • fix builds which are configured with --disable-wallet
    • cross-compiling
    • Guix builds

    Closes bitcoin/bitcoin#20627.

    Steps to build on Linux x86_64:

    0$ make -C depends
1$ ./autogen.sh
2$ ./configure --with-gui=qt6 CONFIG_SITE=$PWD/depends/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/share/config.site
3$ make clean 
4$ make
5$ make check
  2. DrahtBot added the label Build system on Apr 7, 2022
  3. laanwj commented at 4:25 pm on April 7, 2022: member
    So I understand this doesn’t need any actual code changes? Only build system and depends?
  4. laanwj added the label GUI on Apr 7, 2022
  5. hebasto commented at 4:51 pm on April 7, 2022: member

    So I understand this doesn’t need any actual code changes? Only build system and depends?

    Cannot say for sure at this point.

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    Conflicts

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    • #25797 (build: Add CMake-based build system by hebasto)
    • #25391 (guix: Use LTO to build releases by fanquake)
    • #16545 (refactor: Implement missing error checking for ArgsManager flags by ryanofsky)

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  7. laanwj commented at 12:45 pm on April 8, 2022: member

    Cannot say for sure at this point.

    OK I assumed so, as it wouldn’t make much sense to change depends if the code cannot handle it. We could try compiling against system Qt6.

  8. hebasto commented at 11:52 pm on April 8, 2022: member

    Cannot say for sure at this point.

    OK I assumed so, as it wouldn’t make much sense to change depends if the code cannot handle it. We could try compiling against system Qt6.

    Some changes are required: bitcoin-core/gui#577, bitcoin-core/gui#578, bitcoin-core/gui#579, bitcoin-core/gui#580, #24813.

  9. hebasto commented at 11:27 am on April 9, 2022: member

    Compiled and linked ~(not pushed yet)~:

    02022-04-09T11:25:38Z Bitcoin Core version v23.99.0-388ee2edb127 (release build)
12022-04-09T11:25:38Z Qt 6.2.4 (static), plugin=xcb (static)
22022-04-09T11:25:38Z Static plugins:
32022-04-09T11:25:38Z  QXcbIntegrationPlugin, version 393728
42022-04-09T11:25:38Z Style: fusion / QFusionStyle
52022-04-09T11:25:38Z System: Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (development branch), x86_64-little_endian-lp64
6...

    Screenshot from 2022-04-09 13-24-24

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  12. hebasto commented at 4:01 pm on April 9, 2022: member

    Steps to build this PR in its current state on Linux x86_64:

    0$ make -C depends
1$ ./autogen.sh
2$ CONFIG_SITE=$PWD/depends/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/share/config.site ./configure
3$ make clean 
4$ make
  13. hebasto commented at 5:06 pm on April 9, 2022: member

    I ran into a problem while working on this PR.

    The problem’s root is in two facts:

    1. our build system rely on pkg-config
    2. Qt 6 build system, after switching from qmake to cmake, does not produce *.pc files

    The fix suggested in QTBUG-86080 works only for shared libraries.

    Here are some ways to work out this problem:

    1. modify Qt’s patch to support static builds. Nevertheless, the generated *.pc files lack *.private sections which contains libraries required for static builds. This issue in turn can be solved by adjusting resulted *_LIB variables ad-hoc. Btw, this approach is currently implemented in this PR
    2. develop our own patch which make Qt generate correct *.pc files for static builds (the content of internal QMAKE_PRL_LIBS variables could be used for that)
    3. keep working *.pc files in our repo, and substitute them for static builds
    4. something else
    5. …
  14. jarolrod commented at 8:14 pm on April 10, 2022: member

    While it’s good to think about this kind of integration, I don’t know how feasible this will ultimately be.

    In d0015fd5f3b0465d2b3f36fda3714e248f1b4c51, you uncomment lines where the patch author intended to return when performing a static build. Here’s a link to a discussion on the QTBUG-86080 page where it talks about the current qt internal issues with *.pc files and static builds.

    On the surface, it appears we most likely can get this working. But, I worry about the implications of the hacky path we’d take to get there.

  15. laanwj commented at 10:42 am on April 11, 2022: member

    IMO for static linking in the release, it’s acceptable to carry some hacky patches in depends until the issue gets resolved upstream. I don’t have any specific opinion which one, as long as it’s works and is maintainable.

    I do think we should be able to build against distro Qt6 -dev packages for local builds for development (so without any Qt-side patches). But dynamic-only is fine there. Not sure what the recommended approach to find the libraries is if they don’t ship *.pc, though. Probing hardcoded paths is really crappy. Any other autoconf-using Qt6 applications we can borrow scripting from?

  16. luke-jr commented at 9:12 pm on April 12, 2022: member
    Would prefer to see this PR split between Qt6 compatibility (goal ASAP), and using Qt6 for releases (goal TBD later).
  17. hebasto commented at 9:15 pm on April 12, 2022: member

    Would prefer to see this PR split between Qt6 compatibility (goal ASAP), and using Qt6 for releases (goal TBD later).

    #24798 (comment) – is it what you mean?

  18. hebasto referenced this in commit f60a63cc5f on Apr 12, 2022
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  20. hebasto commented at 11:35 pm on April 12, 2022: member
    Rebased on top of the bitcoin-core/gui#577.
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  22. hebasto commented at 10:08 am on April 15, 2022: member
    Rebased on top of the bitcoin-core/gui#579.
  23. hebasto referenced this in commit 37e49cc1b5 on Apr 19, 2022
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  25. hebasto commented at 5:46 pm on April 19, 2022: member
    Rebased on top of the bitcoin-core/gui#580 and bitcoin-core/gui#584.
  26. sidhujag referenced this in commit 1fcb269d44 on Apr 19, 2022
  27. in build-aux/m4/bitcoin_qt.m4:437 in 2be94f6924 outdated 
    435   BITCOIN_QT_CHECK([
436-    PKG_CHECK_MODULES([QT_WIDGETS], [${qt_lib_prefix}Widgets${qt_lib_suffix} $qt_version], [QT_INCLUDES="$QT_WIDGETS_CFLAGS $QT_INCLUDES" QT_LIBS="$QT_WIDGETS_LIBS $QT_LIBS"],
437+    PKG_CHECK_MODULES([QT_WIDGETS], [${qt_lib_prefix}Widgets${qt_lib_suffix} $qt_version], [],
438                       [BITCOIN_QT_FAIL([${qt_lib_prefix}Widgets${qt_lib_suffix} $qt_version not found])])
439+    if test "$bitcoin_qt_want_version" = "qt6"; then
440+      QT_WIDGETS_LIBS="$QT_WIDGETS_LIBS ${qt_lib_path}/objects-Release/Widgets_resources_1/.rcc/qrc_qstyle.cpp.o ${qt_lib_path}/objects-Release/Widgets_resources_2/.rcc/qrc_qstyle1.cpp.o ${qt_lib_path}/objects-Release/Widgets_resources_3/.rcc/qrc_qmessagebox.cpp.o"
    fanquake commented at 10:57 am on April 20, 2022:
    In 9f61d6a7605eee4b116b8791276bd71baf75bf10: Can you explain what’s going on here? Trying to link against .o files in configure checks not only seems very fragile, but outright hacky.
    hebasto commented at 11:01 am on April 20, 2022:
    This is reproducing of lacking pkg-config --static functionality. List of files to link against has been taken from *.prl files.
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  31. hebasto commented at 1:02 pm on April 27, 2022: member
    Rebased on top of the bitcoin-core/gui#589.
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  33. hebasto commented at 7:05 am on May 23, 2022: member
    Rebased on top of the bitcoin-core/gui#586.
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  35. hebasto commented at 8:14 am on May 23, 2022: member
    Fixed builds which are configured with --disable-wallet.
  36. hebasto referenced this in commit 8898906370 on May 24, 2022
  37. sidhujag referenced this in commit c24c674950 on May 28, 2022
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  43. fanquake commented at 11:05 am on August 10, 2022: member
    Can you rebase this to reflect the current state of / remaining changes needed for integration? Seems that some of the changes here have now made it in (via the GUI repo).
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  45. DrahtBot removed the label Needs rebase on Aug 10, 2022
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  47. qt6: Fix builds which are configured with `--disable-wallet` fb872edc19
  48. build: Pass `qt_lib_path` from depends to the `configure` script 1c6e80c296
  49. build, qt: Integrate DBus flags into QT_{INCLUDES,LIBS} c38f1602bb
  50. build: Add `--with-gui=qt6` configure option 8ce5666b02
  51. build: Bump Qt up to 6.2.4 LTS e494e9fec5
  52. Drop `qttools` temporarily ec9ea20e0e
  53. ci: Adjust CI task for Qt 6 e9861cebfd
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  55. hebasto commented at 11:01 pm on August 10, 2022: member

    Can you rebase this to reflect the current state of / remaining changes needed for integration? Seems that some of the changes here have now made it in (via the GUI repo).

    Done :tiger2:

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  57. DrahtBot added the label Needs rebase on Oct 4, 2022
  58. fanquake commented at 11:37 am on December 5, 2022: member
    Should we close this (for now)? This is blocked on cmake, as we aren’t going to introduce a –with-qt6 option, or the other build system changes here. Looks like fb872edc1996527b6951899ff0127a6b815d0a41 could possibly be PR’d on it’s own? Otherwise I’m not sure this is reviewable / that useful to keep open?
  59. hebasto closed this on Dec 5, 2022
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