Build and install Qt from scratch

README.md

Usage

The Docker image contains the OS and dependencies to produce a standalone copy of Qt 5.6, written to the current working directory.

Install

$ git clone https://gist.github.com/079a94008192a222c837812d7c9f14ea.git build-qt5
$ cd build-qt5
$ docker build -t mottosso/scientific:6.6-qt5 .
$ docker run -ti --rm -v $(pwd):/home/root mottosso/scientific:6.6-qt5 bash build.sh
$ cd qt5.6

build.sh

VERSION="5.6"
WORKDIR="/tmp"
INSTALLDIR="$(pwd)/qt${VERSION}"

# Get source
RUN git clone git://code.qt.io/qt/qt5.git ${WORKDIR}/qt5 && \
  cd ${WORKDIR}/qt5 && \
  git checkout ${VERSION} && \
  perl init-repository

RUN mkdir -p ${INSTALLDIR} && \
  cd ${INSTALLDIR} && \
  {$WORKDIR}/qt5/configure \
    -developer-build \
    -opensource \
    -nomake examples \
    -no-gtkstyle \
    -confirm-license \
    -nomake tests && \
  make -j4

Dockerfile

# Based on https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git

FROM ringo/scientific:6.6
 
MAINTAINER [email protected]

# Prerequisities, among others, GCC 4.7.1
RUN wget http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-1.1/devtools-1.1.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/devtools-1.1.repo && \
  yum install -y \
  wget \
  libxcb \
  libxcb-devel \
  xcb-util \
  xcb-util-devel \
  devtoolset-1.1

WORKDIR /home/root