[libcamera-devel] [PATCH v2 1/3] apps: qcam: Port to Qt 6

Kieran Bingham kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com
Mon Jul 22 16:13:57 CEST 2024


Quoting Kieran Bingham (2024-04-16 19:14:35)
> Quoting Neal Gompa via libcamera-devel (2024-01-21 22:39:53)
> > Open source Qt 5 has been effectively end of life since the release
> > of Qt 6, and Qt 6 has current LTS releases now.
> > 
> > This change ports qcam to Qt 6.2 and drops some of the baggage related
> > to Qt 5 that is no longer applicable.
> > 
> 
> With Ubuntu 24.04 release 'imminent' (as well as the next libcamera-0.3
> after I can merge the softISP) I believe it's time to merge this patch.
> 
> However ...
> 
> 
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Neal Gompa <neal at gompa.dev>
> > ---
> >  README.rst                |  2 +-
> >  meson.build               |  2 +-
> >  src/apps/qcam/meson.build | 45 +++++++++++----------------------------
> >  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
> > index 315738ee..6f1c9302 100644
> > --- a/README.rst
> > +++ b/README.rst
> > @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ for cam: [optional]
> >          - libsdl2-dev: Enables the SDL sink
> >  
> >  for qcam: [optional]
> > -        libtiff-dev qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev-tools
> > +        libtiff-dev qt6-base-dev qt6-tools-dev-tools
> 
> Having installed these packages - I still can't enable qcam. So we must
> be missing some more dependencies that need to be listed here.

So following this back to the list:


The issue above impacts Ubuntu-22.04 LTS, but has been reported to
Launchpad at:

Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt6-base/+bug/2067202

And should be resolved in a timeframe based on Ubuntu's priorities.

I don't think we should withhold our development on that time frame -
and I think this Qt6 enablement patch should be merged.

Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com>


The 'negative' impacts of merging this patch are:
 - Developers (not users) using Ubuntu 22.04 will have to manually
   install a newer version of meson
   * This is I expect more than likely easy or already done by any
     actual developers of libcamera

 - Developers using Ubuntu 22.04 may lose qcam by default.
   - This will not break the build - but qcam may stop being enabled by
     default if QT6 can not be found while the bug link referenced above
     is not resolved.
   - I would hope this would give more pressure for Canonical to fix the
     issue - but I expect that the number of libcamera developers who
     are using libcamera, ubuntu-22.04 *and* need qcam are quite
     limited. (perhaps just me?) - and solutions can be provided to
     support them as required - while I think there are more build
     systems that are now using a qt6 build instead of an EOL qt5 so
     it's time to move on.

--
Kieran



> 
> 
> --
> Kieran
> 
> 
> >  
> >  for tracing with lttng: [optional]
> >          liblttng-ust-dev python3-jinja2 lttng-tools
> > diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
> > index cb6b666a..4c315e2a 100644
> > --- a/meson.build
> > +++ b/meson.build
> > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> >  # SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
> >  
> >  project('libcamera', 'c', 'cpp',
> > -    meson_version : '>= 0.60',
> > +    meson_version : '>= 0.63',
> >      version : '0.2.0',
> >      default_options : [
> >          'werror=true',
> > diff --git a/src/apps/qcam/meson.build b/src/apps/qcam/meson.build
> > index 6cf4c171..c7fcfbeb 100644
> > --- a/src/apps/qcam/meson.build
> > +++ b/src/apps/qcam/meson.build
> > @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
> >  # SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
> >  
> > -qt5 = import('qt5')
> > -qt5_dep = dependency('qt5',
> > +qt6 = import('qt6')
> > +qt6_dep = dependency('qt6',
> >                       method : 'pkg-config',
> > -                     modules : ['Core', 'Gui', 'Widgets'],
> > +                     modules : ['Core', 'Gui', 'OpenGL', 'OpenGLWidgets', 'Widgets'],
> >                       required : get_option('qcam'),
> > -                     version : '>=5.4')
> > +                     version : '>=6.2')
> >  
> > -if not qt5_dep.found()
> > +if not qt6_dep.found()
> >      qcam_enabled = false
> >      subdir_done()
> >  endif
> > @@ -20,46 +20,27 @@ qcam_sources = files([
> >      'main.cpp',
> >      'main_window.cpp',
> >      'message_handler.cpp',
> > +    'viewfinder_gl.cpp',
> >      'viewfinder_qt.cpp',
> >  ])
> >  
> >  qcam_moc_headers = files([
> >      'cam_select_dialog.h',
> >      'main_window.h',
> > +    'viewfinder_gl.h',
> >      'viewfinder_qt.h',
> >  ])
> >  
> >  qcam_resources = files([
> >      'assets/feathericons/feathericons.qrc',
> > +    'assets/shader/shaders.qrc',
> >  ])
> >  
> > -qt5_cpp_args = [apps_cpp_args, '-DQT_NO_KEYWORDS']
> > +qt6_cpp_args = [apps_cpp_args, '-DQT_NO_KEYWORDS']
> >  
> > -if cxx.has_header_symbol('QOpenGLWidget', 'QOpenGLWidget',
> > -                         dependencies : qt5_dep, args : '-fPIC')
> > -    qcam_sources += files([
> > -        'viewfinder_gl.cpp',
> > -    ])
> > -    qcam_moc_headers += files([
> > -        'viewfinder_gl.h',
> > -    ])
> > -    qcam_resources += files([
> > -        'assets/shader/shaders.qrc'
> > -    ])
> > -endif
> > -
> > -# gcc 9 introduced a deprecated-copy warning that is triggered by Qt until
> > -# Qt 5.13. clang 10 introduced the same warning, but detects more issues
> > -# that are not fixed in Qt yet. Disable the warning manually in both cases.
> > -if ((cc.get_id() == 'gcc' and cc.version().version_compare('>=9.0') and
> > -     qt5_dep.version().version_compare('<5.13')) or
> > -    (cc.get_id() == 'clang' and cc.version().version_compare('>=10.0')))
> > -    qt5_cpp_args += ['-Wno-deprecated-copy']
> > -endif
> > -
> > -resources = qt5.preprocess(moc_headers : qcam_moc_headers,
> > +resources = qt6.preprocess(moc_headers : qcam_moc_headers,
> >                             qresources : qcam_resources,
> > -                           dependencies : qt5_dep)
> > +                           dependencies : qt6_dep)
> >  
> >  qcam  = executable('qcam', qcam_sources, resources,
> >                     install : true,
> > @@ -69,6 +50,6 @@ qcam  = executable('qcam', qcam_sources, resources,
> >                         libatomic,
> >                         libcamera_public,
> >                         libtiff,
> > -                       qt5_dep,
> > +                       qt6_dep,
> >                     ],
> > -                   cpp_args : qt5_cpp_args)
> > +                   cpp_args : qt6_cpp_args)
> > -- 
> > 2.43.0
> >


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