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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-54486

Document QtWebEngine support for OS X 10.9

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • P2: Important
    • 5.7.1
    • 5.7.0
    • WebEngine
    • None
    • macOS
    • 9e65aaf4e0d0c5b5d927f2fbc5c8aa052bae24b8

    Description

      According to this change QtWebEngine (since Qt 5.7) needs SDK 10.10.3 on OS X 10.9 - however:

      • This is not mentioned in the change file
      • The documentation doesn't mention this (quite the contrary - it says it'd work with Xcode 5.1 with OS X 10.9)
      • The current requirement (SDK 10.10.3 on OS X 10.9) seems to be unsupported by Apple?

      IRC logs:

      09:33 <alcroito> The-Compiler: Afaik webengine 5.7 is not going to be officially supported  for 10.9 anymore
      09:36 <alcroito> The-Compiler: Also without the build log, it's kind of a guessing game what went wrong
      09:37 <alcroito> The-Compiler: My initial guess would be that if the build is done with the 10.10 sdk shipped with xcode 6.2, then it will not be enough, because it requires a newer 10.10 sdk
      09:38 <The-Compiler> alcroito: yeah, I just mentioned that guess as well - seems like 10.10.3 is required?
      09:38 <alcroito> The-Compiler: Yes, which ships minimum with xcode 6.3, which is not supported on 10.9, which is why we will probably not support it either
      09:39 <The-Compiler> alcroito: FWIW http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-platform-notes.html#os-x says "On OS X, Xcode version 5.1 or later on OS X 10.9 or later is required." for 5.7 which implies that'd work
      09:39 <alcroito> The-Compiler: That is outdated, and we will have to update it. We discovered that 10.9 won't work fairly recently
      09:40 <alcroito> The initial assumption was that 10.10.3 sdk would be shipped with xcode 6.2, but that's not the case.
      09:41 <The-Compiler> So homebrew would have to drop QtWebEngine for 10.9 with Qt 5.7?
      09:41 <alcroito> You can of course take the 10.10.3 from a newer xcode, and build with the older one, but that might not work forever
      

      This was a surprise for the Homebrew project.

      The documentation should be updated to point this out, or alternatively to point out 10.9 is entirely unsupported.

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