Compile fail

[Stephan Witt]

Am 01.09.2022 um 19:40 schrieb Christopher Menzel <chris.menzel at gmail.com>:
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> LyX folk:
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> I’ve successfully compiled LyX from sources under Linux but my attempts to do so under MacOS for my M1 Macs (since I don’t want to use Rosetta 2). I installed QT5 using homebrew and I’m using what seem to me to be the right flags for the configure script, viz.,

Hi Chris,

I’d recommend to build in a dedicated sibling directory of your LyX sources. But this is not your problem, IMO.

>   % ./configure --enable-qt5 --with-version-suffix=-2.3 --with-x=no --with-qt-dir=/opt/homebrew/opt/qt5/
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> but I keep getting the following error:
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>> checking for Qt library name... failed
>> configure: error: cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have the right $QTDIR.
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> I’ve tried adding both “bin” and “lib” to the QT5 path but to no avail. I can’t afford to spend a ton of time on this but if there is something easy and obvious I’m missing that might solve the problem I’d appreciate hearing about it!

I see no obvious problem. But I may see it if you send me the configure.log (in PM as it may big).

Stephan