Bug 396068

Summary:	Make qml-module-qt-labs-platform a build dependency
Product:	[Applications] Elisa	Reporter:	Nate Graham <nate>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Matthieu Gallien <matthieu_gallien>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Nate Graham 2018-07-01 23:59:04 UTC

If you build Elisa from source but don't have qml-module-qt-labs-platform installed from something else, Elisa won't launch:

$ elisa
[...]
QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component
qrc:/qml/ElisaMainWindow.qml:259 Type ContentView unavailable
qrc:/qml/ContentView.qml:427 Type MediaPlayListView unavailable
qrc:/qml/MediaPlayListView.qml:26 module "Qt.labs.platform" is not installed

Now technically it's a runtime dependency and not a build dependency, but it would be nice if this dependency were expressed in CMakeLists.txt so that build-from-source users would get all the requisite dependencies.

Or if that's not the right way to express runtime dependencies for build-from-source users... it would be nice if whatever right way to do it may be got done. :)

Comment 1 Matthieu Gallien 2018-07-03 19:40:35 UTC

Unfortunately, I do not think there is a way to test with find_package for pure qml modules from cmake. This is the reason we have documented such dependencies in the community Elisa wiki page and the README.packagers file.

Comment 2 Matthieu Gallien 2018-09-05 19:30:45 UTC

There is one thing that Elisa could do better is handling nicely (from a user point of view) errors when setting up its qml UI.
Can I modify a bit your report to reflect that ?

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2019-08-05 16:26:50 UTC

Probably not worth it TBH. People building from source should be able to read the docs and figure it out.