Compiling problem

[TimoSairiala]

I am having slight problems while compiling this project. I don't find instructions about what is needed from the environment or is docker the preferred way to compile? I tried both ways, but I always end up having problems.

I can see there are two branches, bionic and xenial. So with docker I assume I should use xenial branch as Dockerfile is using ubuntu 16.04?

Using docker with the instruction in README and I can't compile it straight away but it tells
/home/developer/ubports_build/src/app/webbrowser/morph-browser.cpp:178:36: error: 'AA_EnableHighDpiScaling' is not a member of 'Qt' QCoreApplication::setAttribute(Qt::AA_EnableHighDpiScaling);
-> this comes from two different files, so I just went and comment that line away as I suppose it should with even without that scaling as well. What I quickly googled this suggests that qt version might be too old, but it is a bit strange how I can see this as it should be in the docker and not in my environment.

Now it compiled but it won't run. README tells to run src/app/webbrowser/webbrowser-app, but that doesn't exist, is this something that is mistake in instructions or did my compile fail after all? Anyways running that morph-browser also fails because
$ docker run --privileged -ti --rm -e DISPLAY=:0 -v /var/run/dbus:/var/run/dbus -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -v /home/timo/code/work/morph-browser:/home/developer/ubports_build ubports_xenial bash -c "./src/app/webbrowser/morph-browser" "file:///home/developer/ubports_build/src/app/webbrowser/morph-browser.qml:181 Type Browser unavailable\nfile:///home/developer/ubports_build/src/app/webbrowser/Browser.qml:21 module \"QtWebEngine\" is not installed\n"
-> is it also problem with QT?

In this point I am giving up with docker and try to compile it on ubuntu with cmake & make. I have only ubuntu 20.04, so is this the problem? Should I try older ubuntu on virtual machine? Now, I am not sure about those branches but I'll checkout bionic (actually tried both but bionic didn't work for me). Is there any info what packages I'll need to install? I found out there at least:
apt install cmake intltool lcov gcovr libapparmor-dev libqt5webkit5-dev qtbase5-dev qtwebengine5-dev qdoc-qt5
I had to run cmake with parameter to specify where Qt is:
cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/timo/Qt/5.9.9/ .
then make is also ok, but again that same issue that webbrowser-app is not found, so I'll try to run morph-browser but no luck:
$ src/app/webbrowser/morph-browser "file:///home/timo/code/morph-browser/src/app/webbrowser/morph-browser.qml:22 module \"Ubuntu.Components\" is not installed\nfile:///home/timo/code/morph-browser/src/app/webbrowser/morph-browser.qml:21 module \"Qt.labs.settings\" is not installed\nfile:///home/timo/code/morph-browser/src/app/webbrowser/morph-browser.qml:22 module \"Ubuntu.Components\" is not installed\nfile:///home/timo/code/morph-browser/src/app/webbrowser/morph-browser.qml:21 module \"Qt.labs.settings\" is not installed\n"

Now I am completely puzzled. Depending on instructions (README or README.md) I have to use old QT 5.9 or QT 5.5, is this still valid or I should try with newer? Or what else to try? I am sure I am doing something stupid but just can't see it now.

[lduboeuf]

Have you tried with clickable ? e.g clickable desktop

[TimoSairiala]

Yes with that clickable it seems to work ok. It is strange howcome there are so many problems with the other ways.

[mateosalta]

yeah, i think the readme is outdated, clickable should be the best way to test

[kugiigi]

I think clickable is the easy way to compile and perhaps crossbuilder will also work if you especially want to test webapps too since clickable installs a separate morph version.